Charlie Says

Charlie has written extensively for the press on the food & beverage industry and is also the subject of frequent articles on the sector and his achievements in business. Below are extracts from his regular column for the Propel newsletter.

Charlie McVeigh

Jan 26
4 min

Dance Like Nobody’s Watching

How to Succeed in Hospitality in the early 20s Reading the trades and business pages you’d be forgiven for thinking that the UK hospitality sector is dead an...

Charlie McVeigh

Nov 29, 2019
4 min

The Turkish Grill Which, In A Small Way, Brings a Divided Community Together

When I bought my house just off Ladbroke Grove in 1991 – at a price agreed the week after George Bush Sr invaded Kuwait – the area still had a raffish charm....

Charlie McVeigh

Nov 5, 2019
4 min

A Pint is a Human Right. Even for the Sober Guy

This week I hopped on the train to Oxford to take my daughter out to lunch. She just started at the university there and we got to talking about some of the ...

Charlie McVeigh

Sep 29, 2019
3 min

Lunch is Dead! Long live Lunch!

There’s something about a “proper lunch” for a middle-aged hospitality professional that’s not dissimilar to his or her younger self dropping a pill at a rav...

Charlie McVeigh

Sep 23, 2019
4 min

Dream Colossus

Draft House founder Charlie McVeigh asks what’s stopping the UK from producing global hospitality brands On a morning in August I decided not to go to the ma...

Charlie McVeigh

Sep 23, 2019
4 min

Brits can save France’s moribund food scene

Charlie McVeigh laments the decline in French hospitality and wonders if plucky Britons might save the day? It has become a smug trope of our times to bemoan...

Charlie McVeigh

Sep 23, 2019
4 min

Who needs France? Get down to the Cornish Riviera...

Bunker Projects founder Charlie McVeigh explains why he believes the Cornish town of St Ives is setting an example for other seaside resorts to follow In t...