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
- Websitewww.browns-restaurants.co.uk
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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
- 1973Founded Founded1
Links
- Websitewww.browns-restaurants.co.uk1
- X (Twitter)x.com/brownsbrasserie1
- Facebookwww.facebook.com/brownsrestaurants1
- WikipediaBrowns Restaurants
- More imagesWikimedia Commons
- WikidataQ4976672
Sources
The numbers on this page point here. Each one links to the record it came from.
- 1WikidataBrowns Restaurants on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaBrowns Restaurants on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsBrowns Restaurants photo by Ewan Munro from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0