What better time to write about the Scottish capital than when the world’s biggest arts festival is in full swing? The Edinburgh Fringe brings in thousands of performers and tourists and its cosmopolitan and bohemian nature encapsulates the city’s year-round...
Llanwenarth Hotel, the hotel outside Abergavenny owned by former Welsh rugby league star Richard Wallace, has been bought by a local businessman after a year and a half of being on the market.
Budget hotel chain Travelodge has today become the largest hotel operator in Cambridge following an investment of £18m to open its sixth hotel in the city.
While many drinks categories in the UK on-trade are declining in sales, craft beer is bucking the trend, with a sales growth of 79 per cent in the past year equating to 74 million pints being sold in pubs and bars across the country.
Diageo has created a premium sub-brand of its cream liqueur Baileys that blends Belgian chocolate with alcohol to 'deliver a real Belgian chocolate experience'.
More than 800 real ales, ciders and perries will be on offer to 55,000 people this week with the start of the Great British Beer Festival, but the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) says beer sales are suffering with statistics showing that 38 per cent of...
Edinburgh-based independent pub operator The Shilling Group has opened the doors of its sixth freehold establishment, The Cross & Corner, in the city centre.
Raymond Blanc-trained chef Chris Harrod has taken over The Crown at Whitebrook, the former Michelin-starred restaurant in Monmouthshire forced to close in March after it went into administration.
Beds and Bars, the UK-based hostel and bar group, has launched an online check-in and payment service across its St Christopher's Inns business to help 'transform the customer experience.'
With the Great British Beer Festival kicking off tomorrow (13 August), Community Pubs Minister Brandon Lewis is set to announce that 100 pubs in England have now been listed as Assets of Community Value (ACV), giving them greater protection against being...
Kaffir lime leaves, rhubarb, sardines and horseradish are among the on-trend ingredients that are expected to be in increasingly widespread use in international cuisine, according to a new report.
Craig Sandle is proof that dedication and commitment pays off in hospitality. The 37-year-old Edinburgh-born chef has worked in restaurants for over 20 years, spending nine of those heading up Number One at the Balmoral Hotel. Now, he oversees the latest...
New music venue Belgrave Music Hall will open its doors in Leeds in October and will house two restaurants designed to support new street food concepts.
The owner of a construction firm and the founder of an online fashion shop have teamed up to launch their first restaurant and bar in London’s West End.
Hotels in Northern Ireland say they are struggling to compete against hotels across the border in the Republic of Ireland because the VAT rate for hospitality and tourism businesses there is lower.
Bō Làng, a new dim sum restaurant and teahouse, is set to open in Chelsea next month as founder Aytan Eldarova hopes her debut hospitality venture will showcase the diverse food culture of China.
Cabana, the fledgling Brazilian concept led by David Ponte, founder of the Momo and Mocoto restaurants and restaurateur Jamie Barber, has secured its fourth site in London at the Designer Outlet at Wembley and raised £3.5m of new funding.
P&G Professional has launched a brand new range of 15 cleaning and disinfecting products ready for direct distribution to hotels, restaurants, pubs and cafés across the UK.
Dorset hotel The Grosvenor Shaftesbury will re-open its doors next month as The Grosvenor Arms following a four month refurbishment of the ground floor.
The term ‘zero-hours contract’ generates more light than heat and is vague and unhelpful, according to the British Hospitality Association (BHA), which claims variable hours of work in hotels, restaurants and pubs across the UK has been central to job...
The trend for restaurant chains to create separately branded spin-offs as a way of moving into new territory appears to be at an all-time high, with a number of branded players developing ‘satellite’ concepts over the past few months.
London-based brewer and pub operator Fuller’s is today opening the doors of a new ‘raw and exciting’ concept in Putney with an American diner theme, which could be rolled out to other venues if successful.
David Haimes has stepped down as group chief executive of Obika Holdings, the international mozzarella bar chain, ahead of the opening of the company's third and fourth sites, according to BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Report.
Women 1st is encouraging members of the hospitality industry to join a debate on whether or not the Government should introduce quotas for women on executive boards.
Hotel management software provider Guestline has unveiled its ‘next generation’ EPoS system, offering hoteliers a host of new features including complete integration with PMS, optimisation on all mobile devices and more detailed reporting and stock analysis.
Having shed a number of under-performing sites, La Tasca chief executive Simon Wilkinson is quietly masterminding a turnaround at the Spanish casual-dining chain.
Rock & Oyster, a new seafood restaurant situated in the heart of Aberdeen, is opening tomorrow (8 August), with the 25-year-old head chef wanting to bring a bit of informality back to the city’s dining scene.
The team behind Velo, a cycling-themed café concept set to launch in Brighton, have confirmed the first venue will open as part of the restoration of The Level park.
Leeds-based bar operator Arc Inspirations is to open its 10th venue later this month in Leeds and is planning to add two further sites to its portfolio next year.
The Ginger Chef Ben McKellar, owner of Brighton-based Gingerman Restaurant Group, has been recruited by education caterer Chartwells to help them provide catering, hospitality and event dining at the University of Sussex.
The manager of an expanding burger business in Greater London says he welcomes the wave of burger joints flooding the capital in recent months, claiming there are still gaps in the market which can be exploited.
One year on from the London Olympics, hotels in the capital and outside it are reporting a boost to trade which they believe has been caused by the feelgood factor linked to last year's sporting event.
Accor has announced that 194 of its UK hotels will now offer guests free Wi-Fi after research showed that the service is the most important factor for business guests and that 27 per cent of holidaymakers wouldn't stay in a hotel if it didn't...
Thali Café, the fledgling Indian restaurant chain, is gearing up for its next stage of growth after the success of its new generation site and is looking to expand out of its Bristol heartland.
Iqbal Wahhab, the businessman behind successful London restaurants Cinnamon Club and Roast, has put his Indian streetfood concept Moolis on the backburner while he looks to launch a new American concept in the capital.
There's a new wave of Japanese food sweeping the capital that is challenging the traditions of both the cuisine itself and the manner in which it is served, says Restaurant magazine's Stefan Chomka, who speaks to those shaking up the Eastern...
Diciannove, a new Italian restaurant, deli and cicchetti bar, is set to open within the walls of Crowne Plaza London – The City later this month as the IHG-owned hotel looks to complement its existing Chinese restaurant and cocktail bar offerings.
The total foodservice and hospitality market in the UK is expected to be worth £90bn by 2018, according to Allegra Strategies’ Eating Out in the UK report as eating out becomes the ‘new normal’.
The British Street Food Awards are returning for a fifth time this year with an invitation to vendors from Europe to enter as well as the launch of a new street food app.
The Gold Service Scholarship, which launched last year in a bid to inspire more young people to take up a career in front-of-house hospitality, is back for 2014, with a number of industry greats on the lookout for the next star of service.
Little Chef has been sold for a reported £15m to a subsidiary of Kuwaiti-owned Kout Food Group which has pledged to keep the roadside restaurant brand alive.
