Predictions of warm weather for the August Bank Holiday, coupled with an already strong summer, have led to an increase in the number of Brits planning to take a trip in the UK over the weekend which could result in an industry trade boost of £1bn, says...
Copita and Barrica founder Tim Luther and business partner Nigel Howell will open a traditional Sherry tavern in London this autumn with plans to 'reignite' the nation's thirst for the 'often misunderstood wines'.
Prezzo, the Jonathan Kaye-led restaurant group, will open four sites in total this year under new brand Cleaver before assessing the potential of the chicken, burgers and ribs concept.
Light equipment specialist Bonzer has introduced a range of new juicers to their portfolio of kitchenware products - the Omega Masticating Juicer and Vertical Juicer.
London's Bermondsey Square Hotel has refuted claims that Gregg Wallace's restaurant Gregg's Bar & Grill is being closed later this year because it received negative reviews.
A third branch of German beer, food and entertainment concept The Bavarian Beerhouse is set to open in Bristol this month as the company looks to expand outside its London heartland.
School leavers picking up their GCSE results today have been urged to consider a career within hospitality with employers saying it ‘offers young people far more than just a salary’.
Smiths of Smithfield is to launch a new all-day dining concept called SMITHS on the site of John Torode's former restaurant The Luxe in London’s Spitalfields Market next month.
Leased and tenanted pubco Brakspear has today reported a strong set of annual financial results with turnover, pre-tax profit and draught beer and cider sales all up for the year ending 31 September 2012.
Gala Tent, the UK’s largest designer and manufacturer of marquees, gazebos and accessories, has released a new Gala Porch allowing UK catering establishments and pubs to extend their venues.
Thai restaurant group Mae Ping will re-launch its Wimbledon branch as a Thai tapas restaurant next month following a successful trial of the concept across its estate.
Ashley and Kelly McCarthy, co-owners of the freehold of the Ye Old Sun Inn in North Yorkshire and winners of the prestigious BII Licensee of the Year Award 2013, will be sharing the secrets of their success with fellow publicans as part of the BII’s ‘Business...
Edinburgh's dining scene is almost unimaginable without Tom Kitchin and Dominic Jack, chef-patrons of the Michelin-starred The Kitchin and Castle Terrace restaurants who recently opened their family-friendly dining pub The Scran & Scallie.
Drinks giant Diageo is continuing to invest in its flavoured vodka range with the introduction of Smirnoff Gold – a blend of Smirnoff No.21 premium vodka, cinnamon and edible 23-carat gold leaf.
Burger & Lobster has confirmed it will open its fifth London restaurant on the fifth floor of Knightsbridge department store Harvey Nichols this autumn.
A report into consumer attitudes towards eating out has shown that diners now care more about whether restaurants offer healthy and nutritious dishes and deal with food waste effectively than if they serve locally-sourced or organic food.
The hospitality sector could be losing up to £37m per year because it is failing to recover uniforms and equipment from staff when they leave their jobs, says workwear specialist Alexandra.
Wagamama and Hakkasan founder Alan Yau is planning to open a new Chinese gastropub concept in Soho, having acquired The Endurance Pub on Berwick Street.
British tabletop manufacturer Steelite International has launched the new ‘Opera’ range of bowls to meet an increasing demand for bowl food from its clients.
John Paul McLachlan, the chef in charge of the restaurant at the MacDonald Marine Hotel & Spa in North Berwick, has taken over Bunney's deli and cafe in the town.
Fazenda, the Brazillian 'rodizio' restaurant concept with a single site in Leeds, is expanding into areas we’ve previously highlighted as upcoming ‘Hospitable Cities’, with a second site opening in Liverpool this autumn and more to follow in...
Chefs Ashley Palmer-Watts, Paul Foster and John Freeman have arrived in Kenya with Bar Boulud senior maitre d' Paolo de Tarso ready for a climb up Mount Kilimanjaro which they hope will raise more than £50k for charity Farm Africa.
Love's Fresh Pasta, the restaurant that allows diners to design their own pasta or pizza dishes and order them via iPads or wall-mounted touch screens, has taken on the lease of a site in South Kensington where it plans to open its second restaurant...
Prime Minister David Cameron has once again shunned the argument to reduce VAT for the hospitality and tourism sectors, claiming that bringing the taxes down to pre-recession levels ‘would be expensive’ for the UK economy.
Perceptions Group, the programme set up by bosses from across the pub sector to help train young people for careers within the industry, has extended its scheme to include chefs.
Slow and steady improvements in RevPAR and profitability should give UK hoteliers a foundation to plan and invest for the future, rather than continuing to weather the downtown.
A report into the use of technology and marketing in pubs has found that members of ‘Generation Y’ are 67 per cent more likely than their elders to choose a pub offering Wi-Fi, yet the exact same percentage of venues still don’t offer any connectivity.
Giggling Squid, the fast-growing Thai restaurant chain, has secured a further two sites, including its first in the Midlands, a key part of its plans to have a national presence.
Imperial Catering Equipment claims to have taken cooking technology to a ‘whole new level’ with the launch of its new ultra-compact and energy-saving Ovention Matchbox Oven.
Tommi’s Burger Joint, the pop-up-to-permanent Icelandic burger restaurant which has just re-opened in Marylebone, reported 'fantastic’ sales in its first week, with director Robert Aron Magnusson claiming simplicity and quality are the key to success...
Chameleon Bar & Dining, which operates six pubs across Yorkshire and Lancashire, has reported healthy annual accounts in the year to 31 March, with turnover up and margins improved following a shift of focus towards becoming ‘destination food venues’.
Paul Askew, chef director of London Carriage Works and the Hope Street Hotel in Liverpool, is planning to open a smaller fine-dining restaurant in the city, BigHospitality can reveal.
Foodservice Equipment Marketing (FEM) has created a salt and spice dispenser designed to distribute a measured amount of seasoning at the pull of a trigger.
The godfather of fusion cuisine and co-owner of The Providores and Tapa Room and Kopapa restaurants in London has just opened The Sugar Club on Level 53 of the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand.
For years Liverpool was viewed from afar as the second-best city in the North West never mind being a destination in its own right, but in the last few years it has risen like a Liver bird from the flames due in part to its burgeoning hospitality scene.
Shopping centre owner Intu is to start work on an 'innovative' new dining quarter at Lakeside shopping centre this month which will see 13 new food operators take up space there alongside existing brands Pizza Express, Ed's Easy Diner,...
TV chef and former Fifteen graduate Aaron Craze is to open his second pub after taking on a site in Berkshire, according to BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Report.
As yesterday’s ‘Spotlight on Edinburgh’showed, tourism in the Scottish capital has been booming of late. But a brand new industry event - the Edinburgh Tourism Showcase – has been launched to help hospitality businesses prepare for the impending winter...
The ‘Arms’ are being removed from the Imperial Arms in Chelsea as the new owners of the popular King’s Road venue want to transform it from pub to restaurant.
After three months roaming London’s streets in its eponymous truck, South African street food vendor Bunnychow has secured its first semi-permanent site at one of the saught-after shipping containers within Shoreditch’s Boxpark development.
British rapper Professor Green, Hoxton Pony owner Gerry Calabrese and his brother Jon are to open a nightclub called INK in London's West End next month.
While it doesn’t have the same historical and cultural pull of yesterday’s hospitable city Edinburgh, the North Eastern city of Leeds is nevertheless fast becoming a hospitality hotspot with a growing eating-out market.
Packed lunch specialist Chef in a Box has launched a range of ambient breakfast boxes to enable caterers and hoteliers to provide an on-the-go option for customers.
Two sisters – the co-founder and a former chef of the Salt Yard Group – are opening their first business together: LeCoq, a neighbourhood rotisserie chicken restaurant in Islington.
A recent survey of BigHospitality readers revealed that 65 per cent of restaurant and pub owners saw increased bookings and sales as a result of the heatwave in July, and the latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker reflect these benefits.
