From an increased focus on loyalty to the use of storytelling and the rise of themed afternoon tea offerings, the hotel sector makes its predictions for 2017.
Restaurant workers at Harrods are calling on the store to allow staff to vote on who distributes their tips in the latest row over the use of service charges.
The Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park London hotel has confirmed a two-phase, multi-million-pound restoration and renovation in 2017, including of the two-Michelin-starred Dinner by Heston Blumenthal restaurant.
Pub company Oakman Inns & Restaurants has confirmed a number of multi-million pound expansion plans as it reports a strong financial position for the year.
Hawksmoor Group is closing the Stoke Newington branch of its neighbourhood restaurant brand Foxlow because it said it failed to get things right in the location.
English Lakes Hotels Resorts & Venues will close the Low Wood Bay Resort & Spa in the Lake District this week to start work on a £16m refurbishment of the 133-bedroom property.
Soho House & Co founder and chief executive Nick Jones and restaurateur Mark Hix were among the members of the hospitality industry recognised in the 2017 New Years Honours list.
The MasterChef: The Professionals 2016 winner, Gary Maclean, was crowned victorious last night. We spoke to the Glasgow-based chef-lecturer (and husband, and father-of-six) the morning after to talk winning, culinary colleges, and learning what the TV...
The final of this year’s BBC MasterChef: The Professionals TV show is to conclude this evening, with one of the three finalist chefs to be crowned 2016 victor.
Simpsons – the Michelin-starred restaurant with rooms owned by chef-restaurateur Andreas Antona, with chef director Luke Tipping – has announced Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume as its first guest dinner for 2017.
It's been a bumper year for interviews, as we chatted to some of the world's finest chefs, innovative restaurant owners, and most impressive hoteliers. Here's our pick of the top five...
Hospitality businesses have been advised to follow strict safety guidelines this New Year’s Eve when inviting the public to any fireworks displays or events.
Hoteliers are advised to tap into the ‘micro-stay’ market and open their hotel rooms up for as little time as three hours, to boost occupancy and compete for business from the Airbnb generation, a former hotelier has said.
From chefs’ best career advice to the re-invention of oysters, we had the honour of filming some truly great professionals this year. With so many innovative concepts and brilliant insights flying about, we struggled to choose our highlights, but here...
The number of restaurants in the UK has risen rapidly in the past five years, but pubs and bars are continuing to close, according to a report by the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) and CGA Peach.
Eating out in the UK is on the rise, with diners looking to set menus, vouchers, and promotions to achieve best value for money, according to new research.
Victor Garvey, chef-patron of London Spanish-style restaurant Encant (previously known as Duende), has revealed more details about his second solo site, Rambla, in Soho in 2017.
Loungers, the 94-site casual dining group of brands Lounges and Cosy Club, has been acquired in a majority stake deal by Lion Capital, in a £137m deal.
More than 20 chief executives and business leaders from the UK’s leading eating and drinking out chains have penned a letter to the Prime Minister Theresa May asking her to “consider a reduction in VAT, extending transitional relief on business rates...
Dakota - the boutique hotel group created by Malmaison founder Ken McCulloch - has revealed plans to open in all the UK’s major regional cities by 2021.
From service charge controversy at Le Gavroche, and Gary Usher's crowdfunding, to a £403m deal for Punch pubs, we round up the industry's biggest stories this week
The Châteaux & Hôtels Collection – presided over by chef Alain Ducasse – is to partner with Airbnb to offer a range of bedrooms, and gourmet experiences, on the sharing website.
The historic Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa in Bath was awarded five AA red stars in September just four years after it was bought by Topland Group. General manager Jonathan Stapleton spoke to BigHospitality about turning the hotel around and how the...
Heineken has moved one step closer to acquiring the lions share of Punch Taverns' pub estate, after three of the pubco’s top shareholders gave their support.
North London-based restaurant and bar operator The Masseria Group has opened a café and deli in Kensal Rise on the site of its former barbecue restaurant Austen's Smokehouse.
Chef Francesco Mazzei, current chef-patron of D&D London’s Sartoria restaurant in London’s Mayfair, is to launch a new Italian restaurant in Islington in March 2017.
Currently more than two-fifths (43 per cent) of workers in the restaurant, QSR, hotel and pub sectors in the UK are foreign nationals, according to latest figures from Fourth Analytics.
Michel Roux Jr, owner with his family of the two Michelin-starred Le Gavroche restaurant in London’s Mayfair, is to scrap tipping in favour of including a service charge on all bills.
Fair tips campaigners from Unite will gather outside Fortnum & Mason later today (Thursday) in protest at what they say is a 'Scrooge-like' raid on staff wages and service charge payments at the luxury store's restaurants.
Somewhere making its way across the Atlantic is a shipping container packed with three metric tonnes of corn. According to the calculator on Sam Hart’s iPhone, that should be enough to make 225,000 10cm tortillas, which should keep his soon-to-open Borough taqueria...
Nick Bennett, who was a finalist in last year’s BBC MasterChef: The Professionals, has been promoted to head chef at Restaurant 56 in the 49-bedroom Sudbury House Hotel in Oxfordshire.
The UK-based Thai Leisure Group – owner of the Thaikhun, Chaophraya and Yee Rah restaurant brands – has been recognised by the Royal Thai government as an authentic source of Thai cooking.
