Chef event Obsession at Northcote in Lancashire started in 2001 with just four chefs. It returns in January next year with a line up of more than 20 UK and international chefs. Chef-owner Nigel Haworth discusses its evolution
The UK is awash with new restaurant developments that are jostling for business. Here’s a run down of the key ones that are opening in the capital and beyond, who’s in, who’s out, and what you can expect from them.
The Freemasons at Wiswell and Phil Howard’s Elystan Street restaurant in Chelsea have been honoured at the AA’s annual award ceremony, which marks the release of its 2018 guidebooks.
UberEats, the food delivery arm of Uber, is expected to continue to operate in London following the news today that the company’s private hire operator licence in London would not be renewed next month.
A group of UK’s leading restaurant owners, investors and operators has launched a charity that will raise money to help tackle food and water poverty at home and abroad.
While the majority of the industry has taken its foot off the expansion pedal, The Ivy Collection is taking the opportunity to build its estate. And it’s not hanging around
London chain Rosa’s Thai is expected to open its first regional site early next year after signing heads of terms on a premises in Liverpool’s Albert Dock area.
East London curry house Tayyabs was forced to shut down for 48 hours last week for allegedly employing illegal workers it claims were not properly vetted by an external recruitment company. Here Esther Smith, partner at UK law firm TLT, explains how restaurants...
"Everybody loves bread.” So says Alastair Gordon, UK operations director at Ole & Steen Danish Bakery, which landed on these shores with its first London site at the end of 2016.
Tickets are now available for the second edition of the Severn Sisters’ Feast for Action Against Hunger. The female-hosted event follows on from the success of the first Feast, held in Bristol in 2016.
New research commissioned by Barclays Business has shown the UK’s tourism economy to be thriving, with turnover for hospitality businesses up significantly over the last year.
Cotswold manor house, hotel and spa Whatley Manor is launching a multifunctional food and drink space called The Green Room, overseen by Danish chef Laetizia Madsen.
Social enterprise Fat Macy’s, which aims to teach young Londoners living in temporary housing how to cook, has launched a crowdfunding campaign in a bid to open its first permanent location.
Caprice Holdings will open its fifth Ivy Café restaurant, in Blackheath, on the outskirts of Greenwich Park, next year as the expansion of The Ivy offshoot continues at pace.
Gourmet Goat, Pizza Hut, Petersham Nurseries, boutique Sussex hotel The Gallivant and Jamie’s Italian are among the list of restaurants and companies making up this year’s Sustainable Restaurant Association’s (SRA) Food Made Good Awards shortlist.
People are continuing to eat and drink out much as they did last year despite a fall in consumer confidence, new figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker have shown.
Nathan Outlaw’s eponymous seafood restaurant has been awarded the top spot in the 2018 Good Food Guide, pushing Simon Rogan’s L’Enclume into second place after four years as the reader-reviews based guide’s most highly rated place to eat.
A perfect storm of factors are continuing to propel food prices skyward – average food prices were up 1.4% in June and the same figure last month – and the worst is probably still to come.
Hell hath no fury like a Millennial given poor quality food, with new research showing that younger diners are much more likely to leave a negative online review than older diners.
