Following yesterday’s release of the Michelin Guide for Great Britain and Ireland 2012, some of the restaurateurs that have been awarded Michelin stars, including The Pass, Coworth Park, the Sir Charles Napier and The Hand & Flowers, have revealed...
London mayor Boris Johnson is calling on the capital's restaurants, hotels and caterers to improve food standards ahead of London 2012 to help 'revitalise' the food sector and create a lasting legacy for the industry.
Restaurants, pubs and hotels including The Pass, The Belfry and Le Pont de la Tour tell us about special events and promotions they are running to attract customers.
Tourism Minister John Penrose is set to partake in a work placement at an outdoor pursuits firm in Western-Super-Mare, in order to further understand the challenges and opportunities facing tourism industry small businesses such as red tape.
The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has launched a new campaign to embolden diners to ask for doggy bags and to encourage restaurants to make patrons feel more comfortable about it.
Michelin has awarded Restaurant Sat Bains and the Hand & Flowers second stars in the 2012 UK & Ireland Guide with Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Pollen Street Social and Coworth Park among those gaining their first star.
As chief executive of the Malmaison and Hotel du Vin business, Robert Cook has embarked on a voyage of discovery into the standalone restaurant sector: Is he steering a successful course?
Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) is gearing up for further forays into the casual-dining arena in 2012 to add to its new Bread Street Kitchen restaurant in the City.
The bar manager at the Rockwell bar at Trafalgar Hotel in London, has started listing the calorie count of each drink on his cocktail menu to meet growing demand for nutritional information from customers.
Gordon Cartwright, managing director of Visionary Dining and former AA restaurant inspector, is organising a series of culinary events in support of Hospitality Action.
The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has suggested that live sport could now become more affordable for pubs, after landlady Karen Murphy has won a court battle over the use of a foreign TV decoder to screen football matches.
The Waterside Hotel, located in the heart of the Lake District, is set to re-open next summer after the owners secured a multi-million pound deal to extend the structure.
Andy Varma, who formerly operated the V8 Gourmet business with his brother Arjun, is to over see a new restaurant called Chakra in London’s Holland Park.
Pub, restaurant and hotel owners are being warned to banish cigarette vending machines from their premises following a move to make it illegal for tobacco to be bought from them.
Oyster farmers The Wright Brothers are launching a raw seafood bar within their second London restaurant Wright Brothers Soho Oyster House this autumn.
MWB the majority owner of boutique hotel chain Malmaison and Hotel du Vin, has come to an agreement with lenders to extend its £282.5m facility for Malmaison to the end of 2014, enabling it to reduce its debt to £180m.
Tax specialists Ray Chidell and Ian Sutton have written a book specifically for owners of hotels, restaurants and pubs that could help them save tax through capital allowances.
Britain’s 5,000 beer brands bare to be boosted by new entrants into the lower-tax category as the fifty per cent tax break on lower strength beers goes live tomorrow.
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has announced that over 1,000 pubs have now signed up to its cider pub accreditation scheme, ahead of National Cider and Perry Month which begins tomorrow.
Having drawn up the shortlists and anonymously revisiting all the finalists, Time Out has announced London’s best new restaurants, bars and cafés of 2011.
Restaurant bookings provider toptable have added a new celebrity chef auction to the Love Food Give Food Festival run in partnership with Action Against Hunger.
Michelin-starred Indian chef Atul Kochhar is exploring a number of areas throughout the UK for the relocation of his Vatika restaurant, following the closure of the Southampton site on 20 September.
London hoteliers have so far successfully ridden out the economic storm, while rates in the provinces have remained ‘stubbornly flat’, according to the latest PricewaterhouseCooper (PwC) report.
The new products and services of 300 exhibitors will be available to visitors to The Restaurant Show this year with many suppliers using the show to launch brand new innovations.
Food is being dubbed a 'lifeline' for many pubs, despite the operating costs involved in serving food being 7 per cent higher than they are in wet-led pubs, the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) reports.
As sales in the UK’s foodservice sector are beginning to decline, restaurant, bar and café operators are keeping customers eating out by introducing new brands, changing their menus and broadening their food and drink offering.
Cask ale drinkers are twice as likely to visit the pub as non-cask drinkers, spend more when they’re there and, most importantly, can’t switch to the supermarket to purchase their favourite drink.
Italian cuisine is ranked as the nation’s favourite when dining out, while traditional British food still tops the menu for home cooking, according to the How Britain Eats 2011 Report.
A new report has revealed that major sporting events in the first half of this year led to average hotel price increases of nearly 30 per cent, lending weight to predictions that even larger price hikes are due for next year’s Olympics.
James Knight-Pacheco, a previous contestant on Raymond Blanc's BBC2 series The Restaurant, is to open a restaurant exploring the link between art and food in Shoreditch next month.
Four hundred restaurants across the UK including major groups, independent favourites and fine dining establishments are having their sustainability credentials tested by a new rating scheme.
Hotels, restaurants and bars across Liverpool are expecting huge revenue over the coming days with the Labour Party Annual Conference about to take place in the city for the first time.
Britain’s beer drinkers are paying a staggering 40 per cent of the entire European Beer Tax bill, according to a new report from global accountancy firm Ernst & Young, commissioned by the European brewing industry.
Boris Johnson has called on London’s small and medium-sized businesses to take advantage of the latest wireless technology during next year’s Olympic Games.
Restaurants and hotels such as The Penny Black Restaurant and Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes Hotel tell us about special events and promotions they are running to attract more customers.
