By David Hancock

There are lost of different types of pubs and bars in the UK as historically we tend to live and breathe for socialising in Britain which has lead to a massive choice of pubs and bars to work in, but obviously they can differ a lot ranging from a drinking bar through to a gastro/food pub.

Whatever position you are looking for, be it in a trendy city bar, perhaps as a bar manager or maybe you are searching for a head chefs position in a county pub, there are still lots of jobs out there which are not necessarily hard to find. People do still visit pubs to eat quality food even these days perhaps more so than to just drink alcohol. Now there is often more profit to be made on food than there is in drinks so more and more pubs are keen to offer food as part of the pubbing experience than perhaps they were a couple of decades ago.

It is now a trend for famous people and chefs to look at pubs/bars to make their next profitable investment or overall acquisition. Examples of these are Gordon Ramsay who bought a pub a few years ago and Chris Evans who now owns 3 high quality gastro pubs in the South East. Plus food in these types of gastro pubs quite often rival the quality of some of the finest restaurants which means for the general public there is no need to go to an expensive fine dining restaurant to get the best food.

So what are the main differences between working in gastro pub or working in a top restaurant?

Basically in terms of staff, a pub will often have pub managers jobs or head barman but in a restaurant they will have a head of food and beverage but the rest of the staff team is generally the same. On the food side of things they are often very similar in the kitchen, especially if they both serve high quality food.

Restaurants generally have one type of cuisine that they specialise in, maybe for example Italian or French, but gastro pubs often tend to serve a wider variety of food from the classics list, and might include curries through to classic fish & chips, legs of lamb and juicy steaks. The food can bemore rustic to go with the pub’s theme especially if it is a more traditional country pub and restaurants are often more clinical but somewhere people go to have dinner in a more intimate and quiet environment but again this can depend on the culture and tradition of the food it is offering.

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