Cote Restaurants, the 45-strong French bistro chain founded by Andy Bassadone and Chris Benians, has been acquired by private equity firm CBPE Capital in a deal reportedly worth £100m.
Japanese restaurant K10 is to trial a ramen concept at its Appold Street branch with a view to opening permanent units under a separate brand next year.
The number of women involved in Britain’s thriving brewing industry is on the rise, with many opening their own breweries in response to a growing interest in ales.
Brothers Ed and Ben Robson are set to open their first hospitality business in London this autumn, a Viennese inspired restaurant called Boopshi's that will specialise in schnitzels and spritz cocktails.
The past 12 months have seen a ‘boom’ in the growth of the brewing industry, with the opening of 187 new breweries taking the number of regularly brewed British beers to over 5200.
Former Trafalgar Hotel general manager Jurgen Ammerstorfer has been appointed hotel manager of Shangri-La at the Shard, the luxury hotel which is set to occupy the 34th to 52nd floors of Western Europe's tallest building The Shard.
Hotels across the UK are missing out on millions of pounds in unclaimed capital allowances, but those wishing to unlock the tax relief need to act fast.
Restaurant, cafe and contract catering group Benugo has won a £20m contract to run restaurants, cafes and refreshment kiosks at Regent's Park in London.
The restaurant resurgence of Covent Garden will take another turn next month with the addition of Chuck’s Clubhouse – a New York-style pizza restaurant from the team behind GO Food.
The hot summer weather continued to boost trade at the UK's restaurants and pubs according to the Coffer Peach Business Tracker, which shows a like-for-like growth of 1.9 per cent in August compared to the same month the previous year.
Bryn Williams is planning to return to his native North Wales as the celebrity chef confirmed he would be opening a bistro at a multi-million-pound development in Colwyn Bay.
With PwC’s latest hotel forecastpredicting ‘a return to some kind of normal’ in 2014, a survey carried out by TripAdvisor has discovered that the majority of UK hoteliers are duly optimistic about their business’s profitability in 2014.
Following the successful launch of The George on Havestock Hill in London earlier in the year. Spirit Pub Company is opening a second venue under its ‘Premium Pub’ concept next week having extensively and refurbished of one of its sites in Richmond.
Occupancy, Revenue Per Available Room (revPAR) and Average Daily Rate (ADR) are all predicted to grow across the hotel sector next year, but guests will still expect value and look for a bargain by booking late, says PwC.
The UK’s largest hotel and restaurant group, Whitbread, has today reported ‘another good performance’ in its half-year results, with total and like-for-like sales increasing by 12.4 and 2.6 per cent respectively.
Tortilla, the Quilvest-backed fast casual Mexican chain, has secured another seven sites both inside and outside London, which it hopes to bring online over the next 12 months, including four that will open before the end of the year.
Black Lion House, a 75,000 sq.ft office block in London’s East End, is to be converted into a 220-bedroom boutique hotel and rooftop restaurant in a £16m development from Union Hanover Securities and Southern Grove.
London now matches Hong Kong in offering the same number of top hotels after Forbes Travel Guide revealed it was adding The Connaught to its list of five-star hotels in the capital in its mid-year update.
Pubs are increasingly realising the importance of coffee for their business, with national operators now selling more of the hot beverage than high street coffee shops. However, a ‘quality’ cup is apparently still hard to find in the licensed trade as...
The hot summer turned into a 'long dry drought' for the on-trade according to the Wine & Spirit Trade Association's (WSTA) latest Market Report, which shows that alcohol sales at restaurants and pubs have fallen six per cent in the...
Andrew Dargue and Donna Conroy, the duo behind London vegetarian restaurants Vanilla Black and Orchard, are launching a smaller, takeaway-focussed offshoot of the latter casual dining concept.
Independent brasserie group Lussmanns Fish & Grill Restaurants has just opened a third venue in Hertfordshire after a 10-year search for the right location.
Unite Union members at Kuehne & Nagel Drinks Logistics (KNDL) are planning to strike for 24 hours next week over jobs and working conditions, leaving drinks supplies to some of the UK’s largest pub companies at risk.
Hospitality business should prepare for an increase in tourists from Australia over the next year as VisitBritain has partnered with Virgin Atlantic and London & Partners to entice more Australians to visit Britain.
The team behind Blue Rainbow Aparthotels, a collection of serviced apartments in Manchester and Edinburgh, are investing heavily in Tea 42 Restaurants – a new, ‘alternative’ café and tearoom experience which it hopes to grow to more than 20 sites in two...
Plans for a new 60-bedroom urban boutique hotel in Plymouth took a big step forward this week with the signing of the lease by the team behind Cornwall’s renowned Watergate Bay Hotel.
Sophie Michell, one of the youngest female executive chefs in Britain, is heading up Pont St. – a contemporary seafood restaurant opening on the former site of Hix Belgravia within Thompson’s five-star Belgraves hotel in London.
Fayre & Square, the 157-strong family pub offering from Spirit Pub Company, is the latest brand to tap into the rising popularity of American food concepts with the launch of its new autumn menu.
The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has developed the first ever sustainability accreditation for food destinations, after its research found that 70 per cent of consumers would choose a sustainable restaurant given the option, and more than...
By his own admission, Jonny Boud prefers to be the organiser of an event than to attend one as a guest. This ethos is reflected in his hospitality businesses, with PING, The Rum Kitchen and Love Brunch all focused on offering customers an all-night ‘experience’....
VQ, the 24-hour café and diner on London’s Fulham Road, is opening a second venue in the capital after almost 18 years, having acquired the ground-floor unit of the St Giles Hotel in Bloomsbury.
Union Street Café, the long-awaited restaurant from the Gordon Ramsay Group, has unveiled the chef that will be heading up the venue and the dishes that will be on offer when it opens near Borough Market later this month.
The majority of hospitality business managers believe they have been ‘misled’ by IT suppliers and are now saddled with upfront and on-going spiralling costs which were not transparent from the beginning.
ZaZa Bazaar, the world banquet and bar concept, has secured its second site in the Gate, Newcastle, and toldM&C Report that it has a pipeline in place for further openings next year.
Hoxley and Porter, a new restaurant and cocktail bar inspired by ‘Victorian gentlemen's clubs, Colonial Poirot, Egyptian noir, and surrealist jungles’, is opening in Islington this month.
DHP Family, the bar operator and live music promotions company, has secured its first site in London with the leasehold acquisition of the 7,000 sq.ft former station building in Hackney.
A former bank in Birmingham city centre is set to undergo a £16m revamp which will see it re-open as a 137-bedroom hotel, 53 serviced apartments and a new café/restaurant next year.
Koh Thai, the four-strong Thai tapas concept, hopes to grow to 20 sites over the next five years and is in talks over a number of different funding options for future expansion, our sister title M&C Report has learnt.
The team behind PING, Love Brunch and Bungalow 8 are expanding their Caribbean restaurant concept The Rum Kitchen, with a second site opening in Soho this autumn and a third being looked at in Shoreditch.
Pub and bar operator Punch Taverns is now embarking on its plans to restructure the business, having this morning reported an increase in like-for-like net income towards the end of the year.
The British Institute of Inneekping (BII) has joined forces with the Hospitality Guild to introduce a clearer, more structured career pathway for pub employees, with an underlying aim of highlighting the credibility of hospitality as a profession.
Visionary chef and restaurateur Simon Rogan has come up trumps in the Good Food Guide, with his Cartmel restaurant L’Enclume once again scoring a perfect 10 out of 10 and this year snatching top spot from Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck.
One of Korea’s most popular restaurant chains is actively seeking franchisees in the UK after seeing a ‘huge potential’ to partner with an established F&B firm here.
Carlson Rezidor UK & Ireland global sales director Edward Pinchard has commenced his new role with the launch of a 'bold' price promotion designed to boost trade within Park Inn by Radisson's meetings division.
