The Publican Awards will pit the best pub companies in the UK against one another across a number of categories.

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These include the venues which serve the best drinks, plate up the most succulent meals and provide the cosiest accommodation.

The winners will be announced at the end of March.

Below are the shortlisted nominees for the 2023 Publican Awards:

Best New Site

To be in contention for this prize, the pub must have opened during the past two years and be either a new-build pub or a substantial re-development.

Entrants must demonstrate evidence of how effectively trade has been built at the site.

• Cheshire Cat Pubs & Bars – Mainwaring Arms
• BrewDog – Waterloo
• Cheshire Pub Co. – The Churchill Tree
• Little Door – The Little Scarlet Door
• REKOM – Heidi’s Bier Bar, Cardiff
• Remarkable Pubs – The Boleyn Tavern

Best Brewing Pub Company

To qualify for this section, the pub company had to have between two and 150 sites that manage to juggle both a pub estate and a successful brewery.

To be in with a shot here, you’ll need to run a successful brewery and/or a managed or tenanted/leased pub estate. Those nominated will have between 2 and 150 pub sites.

• Brewhouse & Kitchen
• Salt Brewing
• Big Smoke Brew Co.
• Lincoln Green Brewing Co.

Best Community Pub Operator

This category will decipher the best local in the country, serving up the largest amount of pints in the local area to its loyal following.

• Urban Village Pubs
• Greene King
• Admiral Taverns
• Stonegate – Craft Union

Best Accommodation Operator

After a bruising long walk or an aching drive with the kids in the back, this award will be presented to the company boasting excellent rooms.

• Daniel Thwaites
• Fuller, Smith & Turner
• Grosvenor Pubs & Inns
• Upham Group

Best Drinks Offer

Arguably the most important category of them all – which pub firm is serving up the best pints and glasses of vino.

With most punters entering a pub for a sharpener, this is arguably the most significant gong. Drinks retail excellence bragging rights on the table for the nominees.

• Albion & East
• Casa Hotels
• The Alchemist

Best Food Offer

Pub companies that average a two-course meal (Starter/Dessert and Main) from between £12.50 to £25 per head can enter the award, which is looking for the tastiest mainstream food on offer in the country.

• Brucan Pubs
• The Botanist
• Barons Pub Company

Best Late Night Operator

A category for the kind of pub which specialises in only ringing for last orders late into the night and can be a vibrant establishment into the early hours of the following morning.

• Nightcap
• REKOM
• Revolution
• Stonegate Group

Best Sustainable Pub Company

An award for the firm which best demonstrates a significant and concerted effort to reduce its waste and be environmentally efficient.

• Mitchells & Butlers
• Marston’s
• The Alchemist

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