Plans for a £75m hotel, restaurant and leisure complex in Ashford in Kent have been green-lit by councillors in a bid to boost tourism in the local area.
Hotels could be forced to raise prices and cut staff jobs when the National Living Wage becomes compulsory next year, the boss of Best Western Great Britain has warned.
More Brits are planning overnight trips and meals out this Christmas and New Year than they were last year according to VisitEngland's latest Domestic Trip Tracker.
Nick Chambers of PlayNetwork, a provider of entertainment media for businesses, looks at how choosing the right music for your hotel, restaurant or pub, can benefit your business.
Gin is growing in popularity with the younger generation and they are more likely to drink it than their older counterparts, a study by Mintel has found.
Brett Redman’s Japanese venture, Jidori, follows the trend set by its sister restaurants, Elliots and The Richmond, by being vastly different to each other, yet following the same principles of serving quality produce cooked over a wood or charcoal grill....
Having closed its only UK branch in March 2014, Earl of Sandwich has announced that it is to be returning to England in Bluewater shopping centre, Essex.
Good service should be regarded as a conversation between two people, with the guest remembering the person who served their meal or checked them in rather than the meal or the process itself, says Kellie Rixon MBE, brand director at Macdonald Hotels...
Heston Blumenthal is to create seven dishes for British astronaut, Tim Peake, which will be blasted into space to give him a flavour of home during his six-month mission on the International Space Station.
Casamia owner Peter Sanchez-Iglesias has announced plans to open two casual dining restaurants within The General development in Bristol next year - a pizzeria and tapas bar.
A number of restaurant owners have decided to open their restaurants on Christmas Day for the first time this year in a bid to meet growing customer demand.
In October Michelin-starred chef James Close scrapped the weekday lunch service at his restaurant The Raby Hunt in Darlington after claiming excessive working hours had become ‘demotivating’ for staff.
It’s now one year since the EU Food Information for Consumers Regulation came in to force, requiring all restaurants to provide diners with a full breakdown of the ingredients in each dish.
Anthony Wright, a senior chef lecturer at University College Birmingham (UCB), has replaced Christian Grebenstein of The Ritz London as the UK Bocuse d’Or candidate for the 2016 European qualifying.
Drinking venues across the UK are performing badly in the fight against underage drinkers, according to research by Serve Legal, an independent auditing body of age-restrictive sales.
Taiwanese restaurant, Mr. Bao, is set to open its doors Peckham, London, with the aim of ‘breathing new culinary life and much-needed Asian flavours’ into the community.
Hilton Worldwide, along with the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, has announced the launched the Tourism Industry Council in the new Parliament.
Patrick Frawley recently joined Restaurant Story as head sommelier. Previous roles include beverage manager at Rosewood London and head sommelier at Sushisamba. He talks about how the sommelier's role has evolved over the last few years.
London’s eating and drinking-out markets have been hit by a decline following the Paris terror attacks, according to the latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker.
Joint venture developers, Grosvenor Britain & Ireland (Grosvenor) and The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels ltd. (HSH), have been granted planning permission to build The Peninsula London hotel on London’s Hyde Park Corner in central London.
Accor has bought the owner of the Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel hotel brands for £1.9bn in a bid to turn the company in to a ‘worldwide leader in the luxury segment’.
Sommeliers in the UK are increasingly being hired for their ability to match more than wine with food say industry experts as restaurants seek to quench the nation’s growing thirst for drinks such as craft beers and boutique spirits and embrace a more...
More than half (60 per cent) of hospitality operators believe soft drinks have become a more important part of their offering over the last year, yet many are not paying enough attention to their range or doing enough to promote them, according to research...
As executive chef of The Lockhart and now newly opened barbecue restaurant Shotgun in Soho, Mississippi-born Brad McDonald is on a mission to redefine the food of the southern states.
Stock Burger Co., a new burger-centric bar and restaurant from hotel group InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), is set to open in Brighton on 14 January.
Chefs at Red Hotels properties in Cornwall are to benefit from new shift patterns which will see them have two days off per week in an attempt to tackle the chef shortage and improve their work/life balance.
The percentage of tourists who now feel 'extremely welcome' when they visit Britain has more than doubled in the last five years according to figures from tourism agency VisitBritain.
Italian wine retailer Vini Italiani is planning to open another three sites over the next two years following the launch of its wine cafe and store at Covent Garden.