Private company

Browns Restaurants

British restaurant chain

Browns Brasserie & Bar is a British chain of restaurants owned by Mitchells & Butlers, with sites mostly located in the south of England. Browns was the first hospitality venture established by Jeremy Mogford, who in 1973 invested £10,000 (of which £2,500 was borrowed from his father) in the first Browns Restaurant and Bar in Brighton, East Sussex. He established a chain of seven restaurants, mostly in university towns such as Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford, with an annual turnover of £15 million.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Browns, Covent Garden, WC2 (3614632709)
Photo: Ewan Munro from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons3

Browns Brasserie & Bar is a British chain of restaurants owned by Mitchells & Butlers, with sites mostly located in the south of England.2

Corporate structure

Browns Restaurants is part of a group headed by Mitchells & Butlers. 22 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Mitchells & Butlers Birmingham, United Kingdom
    • Browns Restaurants
    • ALEX Subsidiary · Düsseldorf, Germany
    • All Bar One Subsidiary
    • Harvester Restaurants Subsidiary · Birmingham
      • Harvester Subsidiary · Fleet, United Kingdom
    • Innkeeper's Collection Subsidiary · Perth
    • O'Neill's Subsidiary · Birmingham
    • Stonehouse Pizza and Carvery Subsidiary
    • Toby Carvery Subsidiary
    • Castle Subsidiary
    • Ego Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Ember Inns Subsidiary
    • High St Pubs Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Miller & Carter Subsidiary
    • MITCHELLS & BUTLERS FINANCE PLC Subsidiary · Birmingham, United Kingdom
    • MITCHELLS & BUTLERS RETAIL LIMITED Subsidiary · Birmingham, United Kingdom
    • Nicholson's Subsidiary
    • Orleans Smokehouse Subsidiary
    • Premium Country Pubs Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Sizzling Pubs Subsidiary · United Kingdom
    • Vintage Inns Subsidiary

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 1973Founded Founded1

Sources

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