‘When Public House Group opened The Pelican in London’s Notting Hill back in 2022, I had to do some digging to find out who was behind it. There was a lot of noise about just how popular this site immediately became, but it wasn’t obvious who the strings were being pulled by. Then all of a sudden, around a year or so later, critics were raving about a pub that had opened in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, called The Bull…’