Tak Tokumine opened his first restaurant in 1980 within the Brewer Street building that now houses Mark Hix’s Soho flagship. Located below his Japanese grocer and bookshop, it was to be as inauspicious a debut as they come.
Restaurants and pubs are missing out on millions of pounds worth of promised business rates relief, says the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR).
Restaurants and other hospitality businesses are being urged check the source of their eggs following investigations into the Fipronil incident that found that significantly more eggs have been contaminated than first thought.
Chefs from London restaurants Smiths of Smithfield and Paradise Garage have triumphed in Bookatable by Michelin’s inaugural UK Young Chef of the Year 2017.
An app that lines up street-food traders with pitches in key locations in London and Glasgow is gearing up for coverage across Britain over the next three years.
Purecraft Bar & Kitchen, the craft beer and food group founded by restaurateur Andreas Antona, has closed its Nottingham site less than two years after opening.
The French-owned Sushi Shop chain will open sites in Hampstead and Richmond later this year, adding to its current London portfolio of Marylebone, South Kensington and Notting Hill.
Prezzo was left with a hangover after its all-you-can-drink prosecco promotion was banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (the ASA). Here Duncan Reed, legal director at UK law firm TLT, examines why restaurants might need to rethink their marketing...
The Pitt Cue co-founder and owner of the newly opened Coombeshead Farm in Cornwall has an obsessive approach to meat sourcing. He spoke at Restaurant magazine’s recent Restaurant Congress about good animal husbandry, the challenges of ensuring he serves...
Henry Wadsworth from Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons has been named Young Chef of the Year by the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts Annual Awards of Excellence (AAE) 2017.
It’s not hard to find authentic Neapolitan pizza in the capital these days thanks to the rise of wood-fired aficionados that have contributed to London’s burgeoning pizza scene.
Average operating costs in the restaurant sector now account for over 50% of turnover, according to a new study in to the state of the licensed hospitality sector.
The UK’s eating out and leisure sectors have shown resilience in the second quarter of 2017, with household spending on hotels, restaurants and bars growing by 4.9%.
It’s hard to think of a region with a cuisine and culture that’s better source material for UK casual-dining concepts than the Caribbean. A simple formula of pulsating reggae, thrown-together-looking restaurants, rum cocktails and approachable yet exotic...
The majority of Camden Lock Market and the wider area is open to the public as usual today after a fire damaged an adjacent building housing an Honest Burger last night (9 July).
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) has been urged to show caution on further increases to the National Living Wage and National Minimum Wage or risk future investment and jobs in the hospitality sector.
London-based Indian street food player Rola Wala shocked customers when it chose Leeds for its first permanent site. But now it’s back in the Big Smoke with a Shoreditch restaurant opening this month.
Three in five restaurant owners and managers have never heard of research and development (R&D) tax relief, which means that they are potentially missing out on a sizeable tax windfall.
The hospitality industry’s contribution to the UK economy has grown faster than any other sector since the 2008 downturn, but the status of EU staff means its future remains uncertain.
Brasserie Bar Co, the restaurant and pub group run in partnership with Raymond Blanc, is to open 24 sites over the next five years after securing £20m funding from OakNorth bank.
Fifteen young chef finalists have been named in the 2017 Craft Guild of Chefs' Graduate Awards, including chefs from Petrus, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, and Belmond Le Manoir Aux Quat' Saisons.
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