The second restaurant in the trinity of Aqua London, the new venue from the Hong Kong-based Aqua Restaurant Group, opens on the top floor of the former Dickens & Jones department store
Rose Greene, a chef at Cheltenham's Le Champignon Sauvage and Sarah Cooper, waiter at The Ledbury restaurant in London have been named Young Chef Young Waiter winners for 2009
The May Fair Hotel in London has been announced as venue partner for the sixth Chocolate Week and will be serving a six-course chocolate themed menu this Saturday to celebrate
Milk Link, the UK’s largest provider of cheese entirely owned by British farmers, has launched a new foodservice division, supplying caterers with a wide range of dairy products
The author of a report out today suggests that cask beer can offer publicans a 'lifeline' out of recession as it increases its share of the on-trade beer market
A debt-for-equity deal secured the future of the Uk's fourth-largest casual dining operator. Bay Restaurant Group chief executive Paul Symonds explains why it's now full steam ahead
Scottish bar and restaurant operator, Fuller Thomson, has enlarged its estate to seven with the purchase of the freehold interest of the Doghouse in Dundee
Restaurants, hotels and pubs are being urged to adopt a new code of practice on tipping and service charges as new legislation comes into force today banning the practice of using tips to bring staff pay up to minimum wage levels
To celebrate 21 years of the Restaurant Show we asked more than 16,000 people to name the key figures alive today who have had the biggest impact on the UK restaurant industry. Here are the names we were given
Chef Simon Rogan has opened a research and development facility next to L’enclume, his Cartmel-based restaurant with rooms, as well as acquiring an organic farm nearby
Staff at Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham celebrate after the restaurant becomes the only one to receive the coveted five rosettes in this year's AA Hospitality Awards
D&D London is to discontinue its practice of applying a 12.5 per cent discretionary service charge on customer bills in all its restaurants from October 1
Raymond Blanc is given the Lifetime Achievement Award while Marcus Wareing, Sat Bains, Von Essen and Exclusive Hotels are also among those receiving accolades at the AA Hospitality Awards 2009/10
Stephen Williams, head chef of The Harwood Arms in Fulham, was close to quitting life as a chef before he’d even begun, but six years later he’s receiving glorious reviews and awards for his very-British gastropub. Speaking to Becky Paskin in our latest...
The government gives the green light to proposals for licensed premises to sell wine in smaller measures and beer and cider in two thirds of a pint glasses
KPMG predicts that this autumn will be a critical period in the future success of the UK's hotel companies as summer holidays come to an end and corporate business remains slow
Heston Blumenthal has denied responsibility for the norovirus outbreak that potentially poisoned 500 diners at his Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, and has personally invited each diner back for a complimentary meal
Peter Avis, restaurant manager of Babylon at the Roof Gardens in Kensington, has been awarded the Academy of Food and Wine Dalmore Award for Excellence
Park Plaza Westminster Bridge has boosted its senior managerial team by appointing human resources and commercial directors six months before it is planned to open
Spanish wine brand Campo Viejo creates a new twist on food and drink matching by asking diners to choose a wine and then trust a chef to create a dish to go with it
Two of a group of phoenix companies used to operate The Huddersfield Hotel in Yorkshire have been disbanded ‘in the public interest’ after leaving creditors facing unpaid debts of more than £140k
Raymond Blanc’s group of brasseries is the first restaurant company to sign up to a new government initiative that enables operators with multiple sites to deal with one local authority for advice and help
Mottram Hall in Cheshire takes on Mark Bennett as executive head chef and Nicholas Baldwin moves to The Jam House in Edinburgh from its sister venue in Birmingham
The temporary Pierre Koffmann restaurant at Selfridges, due to run for just six days as part of the London Restaurant Festival, will now open until October 31 due to the excitement the legendary chef has created
The contract caterer will manage services at the 120-cover restaurant and 40-cover VIP room at the new John Hope Gateway visitor facility in Edinburgh when it opens next month
A report by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests that the hotel market has seen the worst of the recession and should see the speed of decline slow at the beginning of 2010
The Stafford Hotel in St. James’s, London, has been sold to Britannia Hospitality, the UK arm of an Egyptian construction and tourism company, for £77.5m
BigHospitality selects a few of the promotions, offers and marketing ideas being run by restaurants, hotels and pubs across the country for British Food Fortnight
Like-for-like sales at major restaurant and pub groups rise 0.8 per cent in August on the previous month and are up 4.9 per cent on the same period last year, according to the Coffer Peach Business Tracker
The show is back in 2009 with an exciting line-up of top chefs, including Ferran Adria, Michael Caines and Richard Corrigan, competitions, top suppliers and inspiring debate. Here are BigHospitality's top five reasons to go.
