Kopapa head chef Selim Kiazim, highlighted as a rising star by BigHospitality in 2008, is to leave her job at the end of the month to start on plans to open her own restaurant.
Hotel Inspector and Country House Rescue star Ruth Watson is on the lookout for restaurant, hotel and bar owners who feel they have been unfairly treated on social media or negatively reviewed through websites such as TripAdvisor, for a new Channel 4...
Jeremy Robson, managing director of asset management company RAM, will re-open the Great Northern Hotel at London's King's Cross next month following the completion of a £40m renovation programme.
The Hospitality Guild has partnered with People 1st to kick-start an industry-wide bid for the hospitality industry’s share of the £250m funding available through the Government’s Employer Ownership Fund to improve the skills in the workforce.
Former Bohemia chef Shaun Rankin has revealed details of his anticipated restaurant in Jersey, which he hopes will become the flagship for a small restaurant empire that could see him opening a site in London for the first time under his name.
The Government is reportedly considering dropping plans for a minimum per unit price for alcohol after pressure from Cabinet Ministers who don't back the policy and concern from the Treasury about the effect it would have on revenues from alcohol...
Supermarket giant Tesco has today announced that it has bought a 100 per cent stake in the 48-strong family restaurant chain Giraffe in a deal worth £48.6m.
Food travel firm SSP is set to open a new pub - The Grain Loft - in Manchester airport which will feature high-tech elements including 'sound pods' and self-service beer points.
Sourcing prowess, good contacts and general business aptitude has seen specialist wholesaler Brindisa spawn the capital’s most successful Spanish restaurant group.
Harbour Hotels will re-open the Salcombe Harbour Hotel in Devon this August following a multi-million pound refurbishment of its bedrooms and addition of a spa and restaurant that will be headed up by chef Alex Aitken.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has heaped praise on a report from the British Hospitality Association (BHA), which indicates that 300,000 new jobs could be created across the UK by 2020 if the Government works more closely with hotels, restaurants and...
Community Pubs Minister, Brandon Lewis MP, yesterday launched an advice hotline for communities looking for help in taking over the running of their local pub.
Stonegate Pub Company was unveiled as the Best Pub Employer with more than 51 sites in the UK - a category judged by BigHospitality - at the 2013 Publican Awards last night at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal has been judged to have the lowest level of hidden salt in dishes on its menu compared to other so-called celebrity chef restaurants, according to a new report released by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH).
Hotel companies Accor and Travelodge are among the firms who have offered to increase the number of apprenticeships they offer following a call by the organisers of National Apprenticeship Week for firms to employ more apprentices to help boost the economy....
Rene Redzepi, head chef and co-owner of Danish restaurant Noma, has said he is 'devastated' a number of diners at the number one venue on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list have recently contracted norovirus as a result of their visit.
Chefs and foodservice operators are being advised to use more seasonal ingredients in their menus over the coming months as food inflation and rising British meat prices in the wake of the horsemeat scandal look set to squeeze margins further.
The sixth National Apprenticeship Week kicks off today with organisers, supported by the hospitality industry, promising it will be the biggest yet; a new report has also said apprentices could contribute £3.4bn a year to the economy.
The Craft Guild of Chefs has launched its hunt for the 2013 Young National Chef of the Year and has expanded the contest to allow more chefs to take part.
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon has opened its latest hotel and pub in Beccles, Suffolk, and will launch another venue in Whitby later this month ahead of further planned openings.
Frederick Forster, the 2011 winner of the National Chef of the Year contest, has joined forces with Miele to launch a pop-up restaurant which, it is claimed, is totally 'calorie-neutral'.
To mark International Women's Day, mentoring programme Women 1st has announced it has trained 1,000 hospitality leaders with the aid of Thistle Hotels, while Boost Capital has revealed it is launching a £10m fund to support female entrepreneurs.
Cyrus Todiwala trained in India as a chef and worked in hotels and restaurants there until he moved to the UK in 1991. He opened Cafe Spice Namaste in London in 1995 with wife Pervin, and has built up a successful business while also dedicating much of...
Wasabi founder Dong Hyun Kim will open two new restaurants under the Kimchee brand next month that will aim to make Korean food 'affordable and accessible to all'.
Leading hospitality trade bodies, including the BBPA, have signed a new partnership with the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) as businesses are urged to take advantage of the wage incentives available to them.
Chef Raymond Blanc and London Mayor Boris Johnson came together at an event at Brasserie Blanc in London's Covent Garden yesterday to encourage more restaurants, hotels and pubs in London to recruit apprentices.
DoubleTree by Hilton has announced it has signed franchise agreements for three more UK hotels as the brand looks set to operate 25 properties in the country by the end of the year.
The number of UK hotel transactions dropped by 12 per cent in 2012, but there is good news on the horizon according to one industry expert who claims 2013 could be ‘the year of the portfolio deal’.
Ninety-five per cent of hoteliers in the UK plan to either keep room rates the same or increase them this year as travellers finally look to up their travel budget, a survey carried out for TripAdvisor has found.
Alea Leeds, the casino and entertainment venue which houses restaurants run by chefs James Martin and Vineet Bhatia, has closed with immediate effect with owners London Clubs International (LCI) citing frustrations 'over the pace of change'...
Long hours, unskilled work and few career development opportunities: the hospitality industry, and pubs in particular, are constantly fighting to change these perceptions of jobs in the sector but now the team behind a new initiative gaining momentum believes it...
‘Technology is driving everything’, according to a recent report based on a survey of company bosses across the eating and drinking out sector, which discovered that two-thirds of businesses will be heavily investing in digital marketing this year.
Chef Simon Rogan, Radisson Blu Edwardian Manchester general manager Stephen Miles and San Carlo Group's Carlo and Marcello Distefano were awarded for their 'exceptional achievements' at a ceremony at the Northern Bar & Restaurant Show...
London brewer Meantime Brewing Company has launched Brewery Fresh, the UK's first tank beer, in three Young's pubs in the capital and is hoping to introduce the system it calls 'beer utopia' to other hospitality businesses.
Brighton chef and restaurateur Sam Metcalfe has blamed rising food costs for the imminent closure of his renowned restaurant Sam’s of Sevendials and has revealed he is now looking for a new tenant for the property.
Keith McNally, the man behind hot new London restaurant Balthazar, talks about his fears of failing in the capital and how he gained a reputation as an unlikely hero of the New York restaurant scene in this month's Restaurant magazine.
Marriott International has teamed up with Inter Hospitality, a division of the Inter Ikea Group which owns the famous Ikea trademark, to launch economy brand Moxy Hotels which the operator hopes to rapidly expand to 10 countries.
Michelin has today announced a major strategic partnership with online reservations company Livebookings which will see the restaurant guide create a new UK website, offering diners instant table bookings at thousands of venues across the country.
Some of London’s top hotels have today united to pledge over 1,000 new job opportunities for young people by 2015, as part of the Big Hospitality Conversation organised by the British Hospitality Association (BHA).
Boutique hotel and restaurant operator Unlisted Collection has announced it is to reopen the former St John Chinatown hotel and restaurant as One Leicester Street in May.
US hotel management company Interstate Hotels & Resorts is aiming to grow its UK portfolio to 100 over the next five years following its acquisition of hotel development company Sanguine Hospitality Management.
Thirteen hospitality businesses have made it onto the 2013 Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For list, with TGI Friday’s (3), Hawksmoor (5) and Living Ventures (9) all taking spots in the top 10.
German hotel chain Pentahotels has announced it plans to open five new properties in the UK this year, adding to its only existing venue in this country in Reading.
Charity venue The House of St Barnabas has partnered with café-deli chain Benugo for the opening of The Club – a new, not-for-profit members’ club – in autumn 2013.
Howard Spooner and Dipak Panchal, the duo behind London nightclubs Dukebox and Mahiki will open a new bar, restaurant and club in South Kensington later this month called 3 Cromwell Road.
