In two separate reports today in Big Hospitality's email digest, the homely new name features heavily.
The New Moon Pub Company (clever name as the principals' surnames are Newman & Mooney) is planning further openings in the North-West after the runaway success of The Lord Binning Pub & Kitchen at Kelsall, near Chester.
(Big Hospitality, 6th January 2012).
What's more, they've both got solid track records with some of the most successful brands in the industry.
In another story on the expansion of a new pub company, this one called Distinctive Inns, the centrepiece of the operation is a venue called The Riverside Pub & Kitchen, at Newark, near Nottingham. (Big Hospitality, 6th January 2012) .
Not quite so sure about this "joint venture" with Punch!
