From the 2018 Michelin Bib Gourmand winners to a new strategy to tackling the chef shortage, we round-up the top stories you might have missed this week.
Restaurateurs would largely agree that coffee is a vital part of a customer’s meal experience – after all, it’s often the last thing a diner puts to their lips before they leave, so if you get it wrong you risk leaving a bad taste in their mouth.
The Set chef patron Dan Kenny is to take responsibility for the Artist Residence Brighton hotel’s breakfast offering, introducing an ambitious dim sum-style tick-box menu of small plates that runs right the way through to the afternoon.
The number of food and beverage (F&B) outlets opening across Britain reached a new peak in the last year, according to a report by the Local Data Company (LDC).
The UK is awash with new restaurant developments that are jostling for business. Here’s a run down of the key ones that are opening in the capital and beyond, who’s in, who’s out, and what you can expect from them.
London restaurant Gauthier Soho has introduced a £1,000 ‘golden hello’ for new recruits, plus up to another £1,000 in monthly expenses, to tackle what chef-patron Alexis Gauthier says is the ‘toxic’ shortage of chefs in the capital.
The Freemasons at Wiswell and Phil Howard’s Elystan Street restaurant in Chelsea have been honoured at the AA’s annual award ceremony, which marks the release of its 2018 guidebooks.
UberEats, the food delivery arm of Uber, is expected to continue to operate in London following the news today that the company’s private hire operator licence in London would not be renewed next month.
One of France’s most high profile chefs has begged Michelin to not include his restaurant in its 2018 guide because he’s had enough of the pressures that come with the guide’s maximum three-star rating.
A group of UK’s leading restaurant owners, investors and operators has launched a charity that will raise money to help tackle food and water poverty at home and abroad.
CHIK’N, the fast food fried chicken venture from the founders of Chick ‘n’ Sours, has confirmed its second site will open in Islington in the New Year.
While the majority of the industry has taken its foot off the expansion pedal, The Ivy Collection is taking the opportunity to build its estate. And it’s not hanging around
