History of The Model Inn/
Greenwood and Brown
The Model Inn first opened over 120 years ago as The Ship on Launch Arms, making it one of Cardiff’s oldest pubs. Brains bought the pub in 1956 from local wine merchant Greenwood and Brown and renamed it The Model Inn.
After over 50 years, The Model Inn, like many pubs across the country, fell victim to the recession and closed without warning on Christmas Eve last year.
It is now undergoing refurbishment and is scheduled to reopen in early December as the Green and Brown restaurant. A date has not
been set.
Sign up for a chance to sample the restaurant’s menu on the Greenwood and Brown website and follow the latest developments on Twitter.
Featured image: Glyn Baker
Brains will open a bar and grill in the capital
Brains is opening its first standalone restaurant in Cardiff early next month as it diversifies into the hospitality industry.
The Cardiff brewery announced its plans to reopen The Model Inn on Quay Street as a restaurant just weeks after it bought local cafe chain Coffee#1. The bar and grill will be named Greenwood and Brown and serve simple, quality food.
“We’re seeing ourselves now much more as a hospitality business,” said retail director Philip Lay. “Dining is a big part of that.” He added customers expected more from a pub than a pint and a packet of crisp.
Food now accounts for 35% of Brains’s sales and up to 70% in some of its 250 pubs across Wales, the West Country and the Midlands.
History of The Model Inn/
Greenwood and Brown
The Model Inn first opened over 120 years ago as The Ship on Launch Arms, making it one of Cardiff’s oldest pubs. Brains bought the pub in 1956 from local wine merchant Greenwood and Brown and renamed it The Model Inn.
After over 50 years, The Model Inn, like many pubs across the country, fell victim to the recession and closed without warning on Christmas Eve last year.
It is now undergoing refurbishment and is scheduled to reopen in early December as the Green and Brown restaurant. A date has not
been set.
Sign up for a chance to sample the restaurant’s menu on the Greenwood and Brown website and follow the latest developments on Twitter.
Featured image: Glyn Baker