Restaurants and hotels located at Greater Manchester's waterfront area The Quays benefited from an uplift in the number of visitors to its cultural and leisure attractions last year, according to new figures.
Travelodge is bidding to improve its online reputation by giving customers the chance to leave TripAdvisor reviews when they complete their customer satisfaction surveys.
Britain’s pub and restaurant groups enjoyed a sales boost last month with collective like-for-likes up 1 per cent year on year fuelled mainly by a strong London market.
The London Marriott Park Lane is aiming to be 'the jewel in the crown' of Mayfair's hotels following a major refurbishment and the opening of new restaurant Lanes of London next year.
German-based budget hotel chain Motel One looks set to open a new £18million hotel in Glasgow by summer 2015 as it forges ahead with its UK expansion plans.
Former Tate Modern Level 6 restaurant head chef Nathan Brewster will re-open Tate Britain's Whistler restaurant later this month following the gallery's £45m refurbishment.
Restaurants, retailers, food manufacturers and householders should view food waste as a ‘valuable resource’ and adopt new measures to prevent the millions of tonnes of leftover and surplus food being sent to landfill each year, a new report has claimed.
Heston Blumenthal is to open a nostalgic British restaurant at Heathrow's Terminal 2 next year as part of the airport's plans to improve its dining operations.
Despite a slow start on these shores, German-owned restaurant group Vapiano aims to become a key player in the UK's hugely competitive pizza-pasta market.
The contents of luxury London hotel The Lanesborough are to be auctioned off next month ahead of the property's nine month closure for major renovation work.
The Mince Pie Project, the annual mince pie auction and raffle featuring baked delights from some of the UK’s leading chefs, has re-launched for 2013 with Michel Roux Jr, Michael Caines and Raymond Blanc all on-board.
The Master Innholders’ 21st Annual Hotel General Managers’ Conference will focus on ‘The Keys to Growth’, with presentations and discussions about the challenges and opportunities for the hotel industry in 2014.
Nick House, the entrepreneur behind famous London nightclubs Mahiki and Whisky Mist, has formed a new team of ‘future stars’ for the opening of Chakana, a new Latin-pacific late-night lounge-bar and dance club in London’s West End.
Venture capitalist and highly successful London restaurateur Arjun Waney has opened Peyote - a modern Mexican restaurant and bar in Mayfair – in partnership with fellow businessman Tarun Mahrotri.
Tanner & Co, the events-driven restaurant and bar on Bermondsey Street, played host to over some of the area’s top chefs on Wednesday night (6 November), to raise money for a national children’s charity.
The team behind Prohibition-style West London venue Evans & Peel Detective Agency is launching a new bar and restaurant in Farringdon later this month.
Certified as a master sommelier at just 23 years old, Frenchman Xavier Rousset now co-owns Michelin-starred restaurant Texture in Mayfair, London and wine-focused mini chain 28°-50°.
London-based brewer and pub operator Young’s has re-opened its riverside White Hart pub in Barnes following a £500k refurbishment, with a MasterChef finalist at the helm of a new dining room housed within the venue.
The number of people coming to the UK from America has risen by 23 per cent in the last year with travellers from Canada, Singapore and China also showing a greater interest in the nation as a tourist destination.
Michel Roux Jr’s legendary Mayfair restaurant Le Gavroche offers ‘the top gastronomic experience’ in London, according to a survey of over 9,000 diners by revered restaurant guide Harden’s.
Small businesses in the restaurant, hotel and pub sectors are being reminded about the Government's new Employment Allowance which comes into force next April.
How can a cramped market-town pub be voted the UK's number one restaurant? Answer: Tom Kerridge. Restaurant magazine visits the chef at the Hand & Flowers to find out more about the business and what contributes to its success.
The owners of Pizza and cider restaurant company The Stable are looking to grow the business outside of its South West heartland with London and the South East the main locations being looked at for expansion.
A number of pub, hospitality and drinks trade associations have joined together to ask the Government to re-think its plans on abolishing personal licences.
Hoteliers often call Online Travel Agents (OTAs) such as booking.com, Expedia and LateRooms ‘a necessary evil’ as they help to market and sell bedrooms, yet in doing so take a considerable chunk of the business’s bottom line through commission.
Richard Balfour-Lynn, the founder of MWB Group Holdings, the former owner of the Hotel du Vin and Malmaison chains, is looking to build an estate of pubs in London, according to BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Report.
The granddaughters of the current generation of Gordon’s Wine Bar owners are opening a new coffee house and restaurant in the same road in central London.
The costs involved in dealing with food waste could be cut by as much as 30 per cent if hospitality companies collaborated on waste collection, says the author of a report into food waste management.
Travelodge is adding 579 rooms to its growing UK portfolio with today’s announcement that the budget hotel chain is beginning work on six new hotels in Glasgow, London, Southampton, Winnersch and the Isle of Wight.
A specialist firm that converts canal and river trust assets into hotels has secured planning permission to redevelop a site on the Isle of Dogs as a 130-bedroom property which will become the fifth London hotel for Malaysian low-cost chain Tune Hotels.
The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) is calling on the Government to offer greater flexibility on licensing hours for the World Cup 2014, with some games set to kick off as late as 11pm UK time.
Simon Rogan has admitted that there is a lot of pressure to emulate what Gordon Ramsay created at Claridge’s, but the chef is confident that he can deliver a long-lasting modern restaurant that reflects the timelessness of the five-star London hotel.
Gidleigh Park in Devon, the restaurant run by Michael Caines, has returned to the top of The Sunday Times Food List, the UK's top 100 restaurants according to consumers.
Visionary chef and restaurateur Simon Rogan is opening a new restaurant at Claridge’s following Gordon Ramsay’s departure from the five-star hotel earlier this year.
The hospitality industry turned out in force at the Novotel London West on Friday evening (1 November) to celebrate the Springboard charity’s 11th annual Awards for Excellence, which rewarded those promoting careers and talent across the sector.
Pop-up restaurant veteran Carl Clarke fell into a career in hospitality at the age of 15, working as a chef in hotels and the military before ditching it all to become a world-famous DJ. He returned to cooking in the 1990s, working for Marco Pierre White,...
With three-quarters of the year now complete, the European hotel industry is still on track to record the highest level of transactional activity since 2007 – is this a sign that buyer confidence has returned?
With social media tearing up traditional notions of marketing and sales in the pub industry, the UK's largest independent tenanted and leased company Admiral Taverns has launched a new course to help its licensees implement tools and campaigns through...
Hotel and restaurant operators are being urged to consider opening new ventures in Dundee as a the regeneration project of the city’s Waterfront looks set to attract up to 300,000 extra visitors every year.
Michelin-starred chef Jeff Galvin, patissier William Curley and Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons restaurant director Maurad Ben Tekfa are among the 14 winners of the 2013 Master of Culinary Arts (MCA) award.
Bramwell Pub Company, the 185-strong managed pub operator, has fallen into administration with rival firm Stonegate already in ‘advanced talks’ to acquire around 80 of the better performing sites.