Modern Greek restaurant group Olive Tree Brasserie is planning to seek further investment to expand after opening its third site in Chester last month.
The founder of ‘fresh and tailored’ lunch concept Zucla is searching for a second site in London after a successful crowdfunding campaign netted the business almost £250k.
Restaurant and pub group operators have been looking at cutting energy consumption across sites to help them offset the rising costs of labour and stock.
The value of transactions in the UK hotel market has fallen sharply in 2016, but Asian investment is expected to see the sector reach a new peak in 2017, studies show.
The top three new fish and chips shops have been announced at the 2017 National Fish & Chip Awards, pending the awards’ final results in January next year.
A planning application has been submitted for a new 330,000 sq ft leisure space including restaurant and café units in a new £300m ‘leisure hall’ at Sheffield's Meadowhall shopping centre.
Jamie Oliver is set to take over the six-strong Australian-based Jamie’s Italian restaurant chain after its franchisee Keystone Group went into receivership.
From a pledge to rebuild the fire-stricken Royal Clarence, to an outbreak of norovirus,’peak coffee’ and a new D&D London site, we round up some of the week’s top stories
The Salon Culinaire 2017 is calling for entries from professional and trainee chefs, including into the class categories of Live Theatre, Salon Display, and the Skills Theatre.
Hospitality Action is hosting its Sporting Legends Lunch on 18 November at Hotel Football in Manchester, with guest speaker Ryan Giggs of GG Hospitality and Hotel Football leading the speeches.
The chef-patron at Dulce Patria in Mexico City – ranked number 48 on the Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants list – will open her as yet unnamed restaurant at InterContinental London Park Lane next March. BigHospitality's sister publication Restaurant...
D&D London’s new London Victoria Nova site is to be named Aster, and will see former executive chef at Skylon and former La Tante Claire head chef, Helena Puolakka, join as executive chef.
Monty’s Deli, the south London Jewish deli market stall, has launched a £50,000 Kickstarter fundraising campaign to open its first restaurant, having already reached £30,000 in three weeks.
The coffee shop sector could be reaching its peak, amid a wider slowdown in new entrepreneurial activity in foodservice, according to the latest Ones to Watch report from consultancy Horizons.
Founders of Mexican-style casual dining group Wahaca, Thomasina Miers and Mark Selby, have vowed to find the source of the suspected norovirus outbreak that closed nine of its sites.
Hurley House, a new hotel in Berkshire with chef Michael Chapman ‒ former head chef at the Michelin-starred The Royal Oak at Paley Street ‒ has officially opened.
Restaurateur-turned restaurant correspondent Nicholas Lander is hoping to inspire restaurants to create better menus in his latest book, which studies the history, design and evolution of ‘the most important piece of paper in the restaurant industry’.
Personal and attentive service is still the most important thing in restaurants, despite the rise in mobile ordering and payment technology, a new report suggests.
Xiringuito, the 'moveable' restaurant designed by architect Asif Khan and run by Conor Sheehan and chef Jackson Berg, will open in its second location of Liverpool later this month.
‘Super budget’ brand easyHotel is to open a new 54-bedroom franchise hotel in Reading, Berkshire, in a franchise partnership with the Splendid Hospitality Group.
In the second of a series of videos on tips for success, we spoke to Josh Eggleton, chef patron of the Michelin-starred Pony & Trap pub, and fish and chips restaurant Salt & Malt in Chew Magna, director of Yurt Lush Cafe, and regular BBC Great...
Confidence levels among the UK's hospitality and tourism businesses are at a 12 month high according to figures gathered by tourism trade association UKinbound.
Martin Pickles, the former owner of Flying Pizza in Roundhay, has joined forces with friend and Weetwood Hall managing director Martin Hicks to launch Mediterranean restaurant Convive.
Gary Neville and Ryan Giggs' hospitality company GG Hospitality has announced plans to expand its hotel and restaurant brands into Europe and Asia following their successful debut in the UK.
Carrie Wicks is now chief executive of the South Africa-based Leeu Collection, after her shock departure from the role of operations director of Firmdale Hotels in January.
Holdings and investment firm BTC UK has bought Bow Street Magistrates Court with the intention of turning the Grade II-listed building into a 100-bedroom boutique hotel.
Spending on eating out in restaurants, pubs and cafes rose in the past three months, although businesses are feeling more pressure than ever to deliver a super-fast service, according to research released today.
Wasabi, the sushi and bento chain, has secured a new £25m bank loan from HSBC to help it open 20 new sites and develop its flagship 65,000sq ft central processing unit in London’s Park Royal.
The team behind London-based café group, Brew, is to open a new all-day dining, bar and retail venture named Antipodea, in west London’s Kew Gardens, next month.
Andrew Brownsword, the owner of The Royal Clarence hotel in Exeter, has pledged to rebuild the historic building after it was destroyed by a fire last Friday (28 October).
BBC Two’s MasterChef: The Professionals is to begin its ninth series on 8 November, with Michelin-starred Marcus Wareing and former Le Gavroche chef Monica Galetti returning as judges.
With the UK benefiting from an uplift in visits from international travellers Joel Brandon-Bravo of Travelzoo discusses why and how hospitality businesses can personalise the experience for international guests to help build loyalty from all markets.
Michelin-starred chefs Raymond Blanc, Bruno Loubet, and Ashley Palmer-Watts are to collaborate for the annual Hospitality Action fundraising dinner at Brasserie Joël, Park Plaza Westminster Bridge.
