News & Views

Happy St. Patrick's Day from The Good Pub Guide - we hope you are enjoying all the celebrations this week!

We want to know where you will be spending this March 17th, so let us know all about your favourite watering holes in the comments section below!

We’ve teamed up with I Never Knew That About Britain: The Quiz Book to bring you a brilliant competition. Over the next two weeks, we’ll be posting 10 confounding questions relevant to "The Good Pub Guide" from the book. Tell us the answer to today's question in the comments area and if you get it right, you’ll be in with a chance to win a copy of the book.

10 days

10 questions.

10 right answers.

10 prizes.

Good luck!

Starting today we will be giving away a free copy of the 2010 Good Pub Guide every week. To win all you have to do is review your favourite (or most disliked pub!) on the site. The more pubs you review the better chance you have of winning!

Merry Christmas from The Good Pub Guide!

We have a great selection of places to visit to get into the festive spirit and of course we have chosen some of the best pubs close by.

Please let us know if we have missed an event in your area or comment on any of the events below.

Stuck for gift ideas? The 2010 Guide makes an ideal stocking filler. To buy now with 20% off at rbooks click here

To see a map of the selected events and pubs - click here

We hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and that you managed to spend some time in your favourite pubs!

Are you a landlord or pub fanatic? We are always on the lookout for interesting people with views on the industry to write for us.

To find out more, e-mail a paragraph about yourself and why you want to write for the Good Pub Guide to info@thegoodpubguide.co.uk

Are you looking for somewhere extra special to take your other half this February the 14th? Fiona Stapley, editor of The Good Pub Guide, has pulled together 10 perfect pubs for a romantic get-away.

Are any of your much-loved places missing from the list? Let us know your favourite romantic pubs using the comments section below.

Come and follow The Good Pub Guide on Twitter. We recommend a Pub of the Day, detail new blogs and articles and keep an eye on what is happening in the industry. It also gives you a chance to communicate with us. Ask a question and we will do our best to answer

The 1st – 7th March 2010 is British Pie Week and what better way to celebrate than to get down to your favourite pub and tuck into a traditional delight! Plus - you could win a copy of our great new cookbook, Canteen: Great British Food by Cass Titcombe, Patrick Clayton-Malone and Dominic Lake as well as Stuart Maconie’s love letter to the north, Pies and Prejudice. Just tell us which of your favourite pubs does the best pie and you will automatically be entered into our free prize draw.

Canteen took the London restaurant scene by storm in 2005. Here was a restaurant serving proper British food - devilled kidneys on toast, potted duck, pork pies, and treacle tart - with passion and pride. Their no-nonsense, modern-meets-classic menu has brought good British cooking to the high street once more, and prompted the likes of Gordon Ramsay, Terence Conran and gastropubs around the country to follow suit.

Gizzi Erskine's magic touch is simple but effective. Instead of just dazzling one-off recipes, Gizzi gives you - the cook - confidence in the kitchen by helping you create the perfect meal every time. She'll provide you with techniques and tips that make time spent in the kitchen a real success. From showing you how to master pasta dough and mix marvellous marinades, to making foolproof pastry and poaching the perfect eggs, Gizzi will ensure that cookery demons are a thing of the past.