The Professional Association for Catering Education (PACE) has enlisted the help of three top chefs – Cyrus Todiwala OBE, Gareth Johns and John Feeney – to inspire and educate delegates at the 2012 PACE Conference and Exhibition.
Traditionally a quiet month for the hospitality industry, January is the time when many businesses plan for the year ahead or recover after the busy festive season, but evidence has shown that many restaurants and pubs have been experiencing an unusual...
Italian restaurant Marco Marco, which has a site in Northwich, Cheshire, is set to open a new restaurant, pizzeria and bar in the nearby village of Lymm this week.
Bluewater, the Kent shopping centre, has announced a redesign of The Wintergarden which will include a new restaurant in the family dining area of the site.
Harbour & Jones (H&J) has been appointed the catering partner to RSA House where it will run its public restaurant The Vaults, its private bar and cater at events over the next three years with the aim of making it 'compete more fiercely'...
Essex-based firm Cozy Pub Company plan to open 10 more pubs in the next five years after successful re-launches of two Punch Taverns sites in and around Saffron Walden in the county.
Simon Kershaw, chairman of the northern region committee of the British Hospitality Association (BHA), has joined hoteliers in York calling for planned charges of up to £1 a night for tourists staying in the city to be dropped.
ETM Group, the London-based pub company run by brothers Tom and Ed Martin will open its tenth pub next month on the site of The King's Head at the Barbican.
The number of insolvencies among the UK restaurant sector has jumped by 31 per cent to 194 in the last financial quarter of 2011 – the highest rate for over three years.
Restaurants, pubs and Hotels including Millennium & Copthorne, The Cadogan, Timothy Taylor and Hampton Court Palace tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they're running to attract more customers.
Petersham Nurseries Café has confirmed the departure of head chef Skye Gyngell after eight years at the Michelin-starred venue and announced she will be replaced by Austalian chef Greg Malouf.
Two surveys have revealed the way to the hearts of Valentine's Day diners could be Italian or French cuisine or a special offer with 55 per cent of Britons planning to take advantage of money saving deals when they treat their loved one this year.
Market Café, a new café, bar and dining room, is set to join the growing list of restaurants on Broadway Market in East London as Hugo Warner embarks on his first project since leaving Benugo in 2010.
Benito's Hat Mexican Kitchen founder and director, Ben Fordham, has declared the forthcoming opening of a King's Cross site a 'statement of intent' for the restaurant chain with plans for two more sites this year and a move outside...
Internationally acclaimed chef Marcus Wareing is to be the vision behind Aalto Restaurant at Hotel La Tour when it opens in Birmingham next month, BigHospitlity has learnt.
A 74-strong package of closed freehold and long-leasehold pubs, which includes sites from the former Pubfolio and Goldtry estates, has been placed on the market, according to BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Report.
Britain’s tourism and hospitality businesses are surfing on the wave of a record-breaking 2011 for overseas visitors and spending, making perfect preparation for a bumper 2012, packed full of iconic, once-in-a-lifetime events.
Chef Sudha Saha has an impressive culinary career. At 17, he was given a place to train hotel management at Chennai. He then joined the Ambassador hotel and trained with the Taj Group. A few years later, Saha moved to Dubai to take up his first executive...
The Dorchester has appointed John Scanlon as hotel manager and has announced he will take up his position at the Park Lane venue in March after working as director of revenue for parent company Dorchester Collection since 2008.
Trinity chef-owner Adam Byatt is to open his second restaurant in Clapham this week with former St John Bread and Wine chef Karl Goward heading up the kitchen.
Enterprise Inns has announced the appointment of Robert Walker as chairman and released its interim management statement ahead of an AGM with figures revealing a slight boost in trade as like-for-like income per pub rose by 1 per cent in the 18 weeks...
Nick Clegg's vision of a 'John Lewis economy' has caused much discussion of employee ownership in the wider media. It stands to reason that those with a stake in the business will put more in, and in the hospitality sector, where a venue...
ChennaiDosa, a successful South Indian restaurant chain with 10 sites across the UK, is set to open a new site in Manchester's Stretford Mall with at least two further openings planned for this year.
SBG Restaurants is to revamp and rename the two Livebait restaurants it bought out of administration as well as targeting Glasgow and London for expansion.
Radisson Edwardian hotels, owned by Indian-born multi-millionaire Jasminder Singh, is continuing on the acquisition trail with the purchase of Odeon cinema in Leicester Square.
Giraffe, Yalla Yalla, Benito's Hat and the pub operator Fuller's have been revealed as some of the food and drink businesses that are on track to take up residence at the new King's Cross concourse when the 27,000sq.ft retail, restaurant...
Mark Hix talks about his new restaurant in Belgravia and why he decided to venture outside of his Clerkenwell and Soho stomping ground for his latest venture in the February issue of Restaurant magazine, out today.
Half of new publicans and nightclub owners admit they are ‘struggling’ because they don’t know where to go for specialist advice and guidance or setting up and running their own business.
In January the announcement the London 2012 organising committee (LOCOG) was releasing rooms sparked fears hotels might not be as full as hoped, so a week later BigHospitality spoke to those in the industry to see if hotels were reassessing expectations...
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) is urging the Government to allow hotel operations to qualify under the Enterprise Investment Scheme, following the Chancellor’s failure to remove the restriction in the autumn statement.
Restaurant 23 in Royal Leamington Spa is opening for a soft launch later this month following its relocation to a new site including a new cocktail lounge bar.
Chefs, restaurateurs and anyone with an interest in pastry and chocolate, are being given the chance to get involved with a live and interactive chocolate masterclass with chocolatier and patissier Will Torrent next month.
Chef James Martin is to open a restaurant in collaboration with the Talbot Hotel in Malton, North Yorkshire when it re-opens in April following a £3.5m refurbishment.
Former Savoy and Churchill chef David Croft has written Food for Thought – part autobiography, part cookbook – to educate the hospitality industry on the best ways to accommodate for disabled customers in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics and beyond.
Pubs planning to show the 2012 Olympics or European football championships on TV in their venue over the summer have been warned most sports fans intend to vist the pub less and publicans need to bear in mind the size of their screen and drinks prices...
Event caterer Amadeus has won a three year rolling contract to be the sole provider of catering for weddings and events at the Grade I Listed Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire.
Hotel La Tour, the £24 million flagship development in a new chain of UK city centre hotels, is set to open its doors next month on the doorstep of the Bullring development in Birmingham city centre.
The role restaurants, pubs and bars can play in the rejuvenation of the High Street in the UK needs to be increased if the 'Portas Pilots' scheme for towns, as a result of the Mary Portas review, are to be a success, according to hospitality...
With the fifth annual National Apprenticeship Week kicking off today, businesses from across the UK have told BigHospitality what they’re doing to take on more apprentices and increase the number of vocational opportunities in the industry.
Italian café chain Carluccio's has acquired four former Paramount Restaurants sites, while La Tasca has confirmed it has taken on two from the company administrators and Byron has also acquired a Waterloo site that was previously part of the estate.
Simon Streat, managing director of SME, Experian UK&I, explains how restaurant, hotel and pub owners can improve their credit ratings to help give business a boost and make it easier to expand.
Premier Inn, the UK’s largest hotel chain owned by Whitbread, has secured planning permission for a new £10 million, 175-bedroom property in Bristol’s city centre.
Cocoa grower and chocolatier Hotel Chocolat has opened Roast + Conch, a casual café concept serving cocoa-based food and drink, in London's Seven Dials district of Covent Garden with plans for a fine dining restaurant in the UK to follow.
