As demonstrated at the Moet UK Sommelier of the Year competition, champagne pouring requires skills and knowledge. BigHospitality gets top tips from this year's winner Kathrine Larsen.
Boutique hospitality management company the Blue Rainbow Group has announced the launch of two new hospitality brands, Cityspace and Citycube Hotels, as part of its planned expansion drive.
The Chef Stagiaire Award has announced 18 year old Craig Johnston and 22 year old Emily Greenough as its two finalists ahead of the last round of the competition at Dinner by Heston Blumenthal on 16 June.
Imbibe Live 2014 will feature a programme packed full of wine-related events and activities for visiting sommeliers, wine buyers, operators and bartenders.
A recent report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows that the trend for a rise in visits to the UK by oversees residents is continuing, while the number of visits abroad by UK residents has fallen slightly.
Hugh Baird College in Bootle in Liverpool will be opening one of the first Career Colleges for 14 to 19 year olds with a focus on the hospitality and catering Industry. It opens its doors this September.
This year’s London Restaurant Festival will take place from 9 – 27 October, with aims to aid participating restaurants in increasing their revenue and attracting new consumers.
Domestic tourism could give the UK’s economy a £15bn boost in 2014, as the number of Britons taking a holiday at home has more than doubled in three years.
Fuller’s, the London-based brewer and pub operator, has acquired a 51 per cent stake in The Stable, a six-strong craft cider and pizza restaurant business, for £7.3m.
Gaucho’s more accessible little brother CAU has carefully refined its premium casual offering and is now beefing-up its presence in the south of England with northern expansion planned for next year
Whitbread’s family restaurant chain Brewers Fayre has announced a partnership with DC Thomson Consumer Products which will see the famous children’s magazine The Beano having an impact in over 150 of their UK restaurant sites from this month.
Spain’s La Sala restaurant is coming to the UK for the first time and has announced Chigwell as its location of choice, with plans to open by the end of September.
Attracting and retaining Generation Y as staff and customers will require a fundamental shift in the way hospitality businesses think and operate, according to futurist Dr Graeme Codrington.
Charity for the hospitality industry People 1st is running this year’s Independents’ Day campaign which celebrates the contribution small businesses make to the UK. Previously focusing on retail outlets, 2014 is the first year the hospitality industry...
The biggest challenge for hospitality businesses is not financing or regulation, but finding the right people, according to experts speaking at the Hospitality & Tourism Summit on 5 June.
Wahaca, the Mexican street food restaurant concept led by Thomasina Miers and Mark Selby, is to launch a new fast-casual format called DF/Mexico next month in London’s Spitalfields.
The government has announced the formation of a Tourism Council which will see regulators and industry work together for the growth of the UK hospitality and tourism trade.
Italian restaurant group San Carlo has announced plans to open two more restaurants before the end of the year, Cicchetti in Covent Garden and a Fumo site in Manchester, their largest yet.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. has today announced new UK expansion plans and has signed a dual-hotel development in East London’s Tobacco Dock with the Fawzia Mubarak Al-Hassawi Group. The two new hotels will open under Starwood’s Aloft...
The Morgans Hotel Group’s Mondrian London hotel at Sea Containers, due to launch this summer, has revealed plans for its bar and restaurant, which will be headed up by Ryan Chetiyawardana and New York chef Seamus Mullen.
In the wake of the government's announcement on a new statutory code for pubs, the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has called for more action to encourage growth and increase jobs in the licensed hospitality trade.
The government’s decision last month to relax planning controls for hotels wanting to convert to a school, academy or nursery is reflective of a profitability divide within the industry.
Communications infrastructure and media services company Arqiva released their Wireless Nation Report yesterday (3 June) which shows unconnected hospitality businesses could be losing out on customer loyalty, with 87 per cent of customers claiming to...
Restaurateurs are banking on home-cooked authenticity to bring the variety of cuisines from Greece, the Levant and the rest of the Middle East to UK tables, writes Joe Lutrario in the June issue of Restaurant Magazine.
London’s smaller restaurant, hotel and pub businesses are being invited to join Boris Johnson’s Food Save scheme, which has already helped 15 businesses save more than £100,000 a year while preventing 70 stone of food going to waste.
With less than two weeks to go before the World Cup kicks off in Brazil, operators should ensure they are prepared to avoid pitfalls – particularly when it comes to absences and temporary staff training.
Glasgow is seeing fresh life breathed into its dining scene this year, with the recent renovation to its Central station bringing new eateries, including the Glendola Leisure Group’s Alston Bar & Beef which opened last week. On the outskirts of the...
Modern British fish and chip shop Kerbisher & Malt is opening its fourth London site in Clapham at the beginning of June, with plans to expand further before the year is out.
Mitchells and Butlers (M&B) is now in exclusive talks to buy 170 food-led pubs from Orchid – a deal that, if completed, would help the firm get ahead of competition.
A portfolio of 21 of the 61 hotels in the LRG Acquisition Limited (LRG) Holiday Inn portfolio, operating under the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) brand, has been put up for sale through property adviser Christie + Co.
