9 Bonkers Ways The Unruly Pig Became The UK’s No.1 Voted Pub After a Fire Burned Down Their Pub “We are COMPLETELY F*CKED”

Show Notes

The Unruly Pig is The UK’s Best Pub

🐷 Number 1 & Winner – UK Top 50 Gastropubs Awards 2024

🍺 National Restaurant Awards 2024 Top 100 -#56

🐷 GQ Magazine Food & Drinks Awards 2023 – “Best Pub”

🍺 Taste of East of England Awards 2023 – Winner & Gold Award

🐷 The Sunday Times-Best Sunday Roasts in the UK 2024

🍺  The Good Food Guide 2024 – “Britain’s 50 Cosiest Pubs”

The food is slap-bang, full-sha-bang STONKINGLY delish.

Brendan Padfield, Unruly founder, is a wonderful human.

Garrulous raconteur who oozes delicious stories.

THE perfect long-luncheon conversation companion.

(we’d had a 3.5 hour lunch before we’d even started the f*cking 2 hour poddy🤣)

ON THE MENU:

1. How The Unruly Pig Survived a Fire burned down their pub three months in “always look for the positive” + “Excellence is the ability to withstand pain”
2. Thinking Fast & Slow: How the fire made them slow down and refine. refine. refine the menu.
3. How Brendan Deals with the Burden of Being The Best “only the paranoid survive, but don’t be too paranoid”
4. How The Unruly Pig created the “Britalian” Category of One to become the UK’s No. 1 Pub
5. Why The Unruly Pig NEVER SELL a Burger or Fish & Chips: If you’re the same on everything, you’re in a race to the bottom
6. The Dishonesty in Hospitality: suppliers underdelivering, staff nicking wages + how to solve it
7. Brendan’s one question to stay BOLD + SIMPLE: what’s your conviction rate out of 10?
8. The REAL Reason Michelin Star Restaurants are going under “our VAT rate is 20% compared to 5% in Europe”
9. How we Change Hospitality from “Transient Job” to “Illustrious Profession”

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