Adam Gray is to leave his job as head chef at Gary Rhodes' city restaurant Rhodes 24 to focus on Northamptonshire pub The Red Lion, which he co-owns with his business partner Nick Bonner.
Julia Lucas, partner and head of the leisure team at national law firm TLT, guides one reader through the finer points involved in finding the location for and operating a pop-up bar or restaurant.
Following yesterday’s release of the Michelin Guide for Great Britain and Ireland 2012, some of the restaurateurs that have been awarded Michelin stars, including The Pass, Coworth Park, the Sir Charles Napier and The Hand & Flowers, have revealed...
London mayor Boris Johnson is calling on the capital's restaurants, hotels and caterers to improve food standards ahead of London 2012 to help 'revitalise' the food sector and create a lasting legacy for the industry.
Restaurants, pubs and hotels including The Pass, The Belfry and Le Pont de la Tour tell us about special events and promotions they are running to attract customers.
Theo Randall started his career at The River Cafe where he remained for 17 years. Next month he celebrates the fifth birthday of his restaurant at the InterContinental on London’s Park Lane.
Frederic Bau, executive chef and director of Valrhona's Ecole du Grand Chocolat, has compiled a book which aims to share the top tips of working with chocolate from some of France's best pastry chefs.
Tourism Minister John Penrose is set to partake in a work placement at an outdoor pursuits firm in Western-Super-Mare, in order to further understand the challenges and opportunities facing tourism industry small businesses such as red tape.
The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has launched a new campaign to embolden diners to ask for doggy bags and to encourage restaurants to make patrons feel more comfortable about it.
Michelin has awarded Restaurant Sat Bains and the Hand & Flowers second stars in the 2012 UK & Ireland Guide with Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Pollen Street Social and Coworth Park among those gaining their first star.
Almost two years after opening the award-winning Princess of Shoreditch restaurant, Scott Hunter and Maria Larsen have opened their second venue, The Lady Ottoline in Bloomsbury.
As chief executive of the Malmaison and Hotel du Vin business, Robert Cook has embarked on a voyage of discovery into the standalone restaurant sector: Is he steering a successful course?
Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) is gearing up for further forays into the casual-dining arena in 2012 to add to its new Bread Street Kitchen restaurant in the City.
Luxury linen company Lissadell Liddell has added two anti-allergy products to its range which could enable hoteliers to offer 'allergy free' rooms to their guests.
The bar manager at the Rockwell bar at Trafalgar Hotel in London, has started listing the calorie count of each drink on his cocktail menu to meet growing demand for nutritional information from customers.
Gordon Cartwright, managing director of Visionary Dining and former AA restaurant inspector, is organising a series of culinary events in support of Hospitality Action.
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has suggested that live sport could now become more affordable for pubs, after landlady Karen Murphy has won a court battle over the use of a foreign TV decoder to screen football matches.
The Waterside Hotel, located in the heart of the Lake District, is set to re-open next summer after the owners secured a multi-million pound deal to extend the structure.
Andy Varma, who formerly operated the V8 Gourmet business with his brother Arjun, is to over see a new restaurant called Chakra in London’s Holland Park.
Chef James Hatswell trained at HMS Raleigh’s Cookery School after joining the Navy at 16. During his eight years in the forces he visited 36 countries, developing a love of global cuisine. He currently runs a tight ship as head chef at the Heron Restaurant...
Pub, restaurant and hotel owners are being warned to banish cigarette vending machines from their premises following a move to make it illegal for tobacco to be bought from them.
Oyster farmers The Wright Brothers are launching a raw seafood bar within their second London restaurant Wright Brothers Soho Oyster House this autumn.
MWB the majority owner of boutique hotel chain Malmaison and Hotel du Vin, has come to an agreement with lenders to extend its £282.5m facility for Malmaison to the end of 2014, enabling it to reduce its debt to £180m.
Tax specialists Ray Chidell and Ian Sutton have written a book specifically for owners of hotels, restaurants and pubs that could help them save tax through capital allowances.
Britain’s 5,000 beer brands bare to be boosted by new entrants into the lower-tax category as the fifty per cent tax break on lower strength beers goes live tomorrow.
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has announced that over 1,000 pubs have now signed up to its cider pub accreditation scheme, ahead of National Cider and Perry Month which begins tomorrow.
Having drawn up the shortlists and anonymously revisiting all the finalists, Time Out has announced London’s best new restaurants, bars and cafés of 2011.
Restaurants, pubs and hotels including Terre à Terre and The Chester Grosvenor tell us about special events and promotions they are running to attract more customers.
Restaurant bookings provider toptable have added a new celebrity chef auction to the Love Food Give Food Festival run in partnership with Action Against Hunger.
Michelin-starred Indian chef Atul Kochhar is exploring a number of areas throughout the UK for the relocation of his Vatika restaurant, following the closure of the Southampton site on 20 September.
BigHospitality takes a look at some of the Christmas decorations, including contamporary decorations from Ambius and an early bird deal on Christmas trees from Xmastreesales.co.uk. With bookings for Christmas trees and decorations are already up 35 per...
London hoteliers have so far successfully ridden out the economic storm, while rates in the provinces have remained ‘stubbornly flat’, according to the latest PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) report.
The new products and services of 300 exhibitors will be available to visitors to The Restaurant Show this year with many suppliers using the show to launch brand new innovations.
BigHospitality takes a look at some festive-themed drinks including Crabbie’s Mulled Ginger Wine, Medieval ale, Christmas coffee and Winter Shield ale. All of these drinks are available to the on-trade, and all are sure to make your business stand out...
Food is being dubbed a 'lifeline' for many pubs, despite the operating costs involved in serving food being 7 per cent higher than they are in wet-led pubs, the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) reports.