London-based bar operator Grand Union has unveiled plans to triple the size of its estate and eventually expand outside of the capital, having recently rolled out new food and drink menus across its existing eight sites.
The themes for this year's British Hospitality and Tourism Summit have been set with technology, how to develop people within the industry, investment and the environment top of the agenda for debate.
Restaurateur Rebecca Mascarenhas has renewed plans to open her modern Italian trattoria concept Bibo, having secured the site of what used to be Gregg Wallace’s Wallace & Co restaurant in Putney.
Shangri-La Hotels & Resorts will open its 202-bedroom hotel complete with restaurants, bars and event spaces over 18 levels of the 72-storey Shard Building in the spring.
With 18 pubs closing every week across the UK, new research from the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has found that two of those pubs are being converted to supermarkets, despite objections from local residents.
The first of two strikes on the London Underground disrupted the journeys of millions of commuters this week, but for the capital’s restaurant and pubs, the business effects were varied, with some actually reporting an increase in trade.
Chinese investors could become ‘significant’ purchasers of UK hotels over the next three years, according to the latest forecasts from Savills World Research.
One of the UK's biggest restaurant brands may have had a tricky few years, but a huge investment will increase Pizza Hut's chances in the ultra-competitive pizza space.
Budget hotel group Sleeperz is the latest hospitality operator to sign up for the £1bn regeneration project of Dundee’s Waterfront and railway station.
Chef Ben Spalding is planning on turning his pop-up ventures No Rules and Stripped Back into 'huge brands' while continuing to find a site for a permanent restaurant that he hopes will 'change London's dining scene'.
Darwin & Wallace has taken The Frog in Clapham as the second in a series of London acquisitions for the Imbiba Partnership-backed bar and restaurant group.
An Egyptian hotelier has bought the 31-bed hotel Brig y Don Hotel in Llandudno on the North Wales coast with hopes of transforming it into a 3-star holiday destination.
Luxury global hotel brand Radisson Blu will make further inroads into the UK market with the development of a new hotel in Hull and the possible addition of a new Edwardian group hotel on London’s Leicester Square.
Scottish hotel resort Crieff Hydro has announced plans to acquire two hotels from McMillan Hotels and launch a joint venture to manage four Freedom Hotels properties, adding more than 400 bedrooms and £10m of revenue to its business.
American restaurant chain TGI Friday’s is ploughing on with its expansion across the UK, having secured two new units at shopping centre developments in Glasgow and Liverpool.
Hyatt Place, the upscale select-service brand from the Hyatt Hotels Corporation, is entering the UK with the opening of a new hotel close to London Heathrow Airport next year.
As competition for good space intensifies, restaurateurs are having to become increasingly bricks and mortar-savvy, writes Joe Lutrario in the February issue of Restaurant magazine.
The UK's serviced apartment sector experienced an average occupancy rate of 80 per cent in 2013 with those based in London responsible for driving most of the growth.
Lifestyle Hospitality Group (LHG) has signed a contract with a new master franchisee to roll out its ‘East meets West’ casual dining concept Tiger Bills across London.
Heston Blumenthal’s two-Michelin-starred London restaurant Dinner has shut up shop for a week following an outbreak of norovirus affecting members of staff and guests.
A historic building in Nottingham has undergone a £1.5 million transformation into a new boutique hotel, bar and restaurant, at a time when business in the East Midlands city is growing fast.
La Pâtisserie des Rêves, the Parisian boutique patisserie concept from pastry chef Philippe Conticini, is opening its first UK outlet today (31 January) with a site in Marylebone High Street.
Travelodge’s £57m bedroom refurbishment project is already paying dividends: customer satisfaction scores at revamped properties have doubled over the past year, and the budget hotel chain is now accelerating the programme for the remainder of its estate....
Asia-based hotel operator Dorsett Hospitality International is set to open its first property in the UK this year following the conversion of the former Shepherds Bush Pavilion into a 317-bedroom hotel.
Bianco43, the Italian restaurant company run by Massimo Parodi and Fabrizio Margarita, is to open its fourth site close to Trafalgar Square today (30 January).
Luca Mathiszig-Lee, the young entrepreneur that BigHospitality profiled not too long ago, has stuck to his ambition of opening more hospitality businesses in London, having secured a site in Hackney for a new butcher/restaurant concept.
Restaurant, pub and hotel owners have welcomed the news that the Government will be reducing red tape and cutting business rates for small businesses, but say more could be done to encourage growth across the sector.
Jamie Oliver Restaurants has closed three of the four sites currently operating under its Union Jacks brand, as the company looks to concentrate on the continued roll out of its core Jamie’s Italian chain both in the UK and internationally.
Fresh from opening his football-themed restaurant with former teammate Gary Neville, Manchester United star Ryan Giggs has launched a new, premium dining destination in Worsley.
Tom Kerridge's pub the Hand & Flowers scored a hattrick at yesterday’s Budweiser Budvar Top 50 Gastropub Awards, taking the top title for the third year in a row.
In the first of this special feature series, BigHospitality speaks to operators and suppliers to find out how best to equip your restaurant, pub or hotel kitchen, depending on the size you have to work with.
David Muñoz, the chef behind Madrid's three Michelin-starred restaurant DiverXo, has announced plans to open a branch of his street food-inspired restaurant StreetXo in London's Mayfair this summer.
Leon, the healthy fast food chain led by Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent, has embarked on its expansion drive outside London, with an opening of a site at the Eurotunnel terminal in Folkestone and restated that it could grow to over 100 units across the...
A hotel in South West Scotland that ‘had fallen into disrepair’ has re-opened under new ownership as The Buccleuch & Queensbury Arms Hotel and Restaurant.
Hilton Worldwide has announced plans to improve the prospects of a million young people by 2019 by putting them through its own training and employment programmes and those with members of its supply chain.
