Travelodge is bidding to improve its online reputation by giving customers the chance to leave TripAdvisor reviews when they complete their customer satisfaction surveys.
Britain’s pub and restaurant groups enjoyed a sales boost last month with collective like-for-likes up 1 per cent year on year fuelled mainly by a strong London market.
The London Marriott Park Lane is aiming to be 'the jewel in the crown' of Mayfair's hotels following a major refurbishment and the opening of new restaurant Lanes of London next year.
German-based budget hotel chain Motel One looks set to open a new £18million hotel in Glasgow by summer 2015 as it forges ahead with its UK expansion plans.
Former Tate Modern Level 6 restaurant head chef Nathan Brewster will re-open Tate Britain's Whistler restaurant later this month following the gallery's £45m refurbishment.
Restaurants, retailers, food manufacturers and householders should view food waste as a ‘valuable resource’ and adopt new measures to prevent the millions of tonnes of leftover and surplus food being sent to landfill each year, a new report has claimed.
Heston Blumenthal is to open a nostalgic British restaurant at Heathrow's Terminal 2 next year as part of the airport's plans to improve its dining operations.
Despite a slow start on these shores, German-owned restaurant group Vapiano aims to become a key player in the UK's hugely competitive pizza-pasta market.
The contents of luxury London hotel The Lanesborough are to be auctioned off next month ahead of the property's nine month closure for major renovation work.
Nick House, the entrepreneur behind famous London nightclubs Mahiki and Whisky Mist, has formed a new team of ‘future stars’ for the opening of Chakana, a new Latin-pacific late-night lounge-bar and dance club in London’s West End.
Venture capitalist and highly successful London restaurateur Arjun Waney has opened Peyote - a modern Mexican restaurant and bar in Mayfair – in partnership with fellow businessman Tarun Mahrotri.
Tanner & Co, the events-driven restaurant and bar on Bermondsey Street, played host to over some of the area’s top chefs on Wednesday night (6 November), to raise money for a national children’s charity.
The team behind Prohibition-style West London venue Evans & Peel Detective Agency is launching a new bar and restaurant in Farringdon later this month.
Certified as a master sommelier at just 23 years old, Frenchman Xavier Rousset now co-owns Michelin-starred restaurant Texture in Mayfair, London and wine-focused mini chain 28°-50°.
London-based brewer and pub operator Young’s has re-opened its riverside White Hart pub in Barnes following a £500k refurbishment, with a MasterChef finalist at the helm of a new dining room housed within the venue.
Michel Roux Jr’s legendary Mayfair restaurant Le Gavroche offers ‘the top gastronomic experience’ in London, according to a survey of over 9,000 diners by revered restaurant guide Harden’s.
Small businesses in the restaurant, hotel and pub sectors are being reminded about the Government's new Employment Allowance which comes into force next April.
How can a cramped market-town pub be voted the UK's number one restaurant? Answer: Tom Kerridge. Restaurant magazine visits the chef at the Hand & Flowers to find out more about the business and what contributes to its success.
The owners of Pizza and cider restaurant company The Stable are looking to grow the business outside of its South West heartland with London and the South East the main locations being looked at for expansion.
A number of pub, hospitality and drinks trade associations have joined together to ask the Government to re-think its plans on abolishing personal licences.
Hoteliers often call Online Travel Agents (OTAs) such as booking.com, Expedia and LateRooms ‘a necessary evil’ as they help to market and sell bedrooms, yet in doing so take a considerable chunk of the business’s bottom line through commission.
Richard Balfour-Lynn, the founder of MWB Group Holdings, the former owner of the Hotel du Vin and Malmaison chains, is looking to build an estate of pubs in London, according to BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Report.
The granddaughters of the current generation of Gordon’s Wine Bar owners are opening a new coffee house and restaurant in the same road in central London.
The costs involved in dealing with food waste could be cut by as much as 30 per cent if hospitality companies collaborated on waste collection, says the author of a report into food waste management.
Travelodge is adding 579 rooms to its growing UK portfolio with today’s announcement that the budget hotel chain is beginning work on six new hotels in Glasgow, London, Southampton, Winnersch and the Isle of Wight.
A specialist firm that converts canal and river trust assets into hotels has secured planning permission to redevelop a site on the Isle of Dogs as a 130-bedroom property which will become the fifth London hotel for Malaysian low-cost chain Tune Hotels.
Simon Rogan has admitted that there is a lot of pressure to emulate what Gordon Ramsay created at Claridge’s, but the chef is confident that he can deliver a long-lasting modern restaurant that reflects the timelessness of the five-star London hotel.
Gidleigh Park in Devon, the restaurant run by Michael Caines, has returned to the top of The Sunday Times Food List, the UK's top 100 restaurants according to consumers.
Visionary chef and restaurateur Simon Rogan is opening a new restaurant at Claridge’s following Gordon Ramsay’s departure from the five-star hotel earlier this year.
Pop-up restaurant veteran Carl Clarke fell into a career in hospitality at the age of 15, working as a chef in hotels and the military before ditching it all to become a world-famous DJ. He returned to cooking in the 1990s, working for Marco Pierre White,...
Hotel and restaurant operators are being urged to consider opening new ventures in Dundee as a the regeneration project of the city’s Waterfront looks set to attract up to 300,000 extra visitors every year.
Michelin has named The Greyhound on the Test in Stockbridge, Hampshire, its Pub of the Year 2014 as guide editor Rebecca Burr hails the number of 'thriving' good food pubs now in operation across the UK.
Restaurants, hotels and pubs paying employees less than the National Minimum Wage (NMW) could be at serious risk of damaging their reputation and losing business, says the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) after research showed that...
Anglian Country Inns (ACI), the pub and restaurant company led by James Nye, has taken on its fifth site, the Water Lounge in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire.
The hospitality industry provides one of the best opportunities for career progression to graduates, according to a new report by graduate job review website TheJobCrowd.
The Government’s announcement that it is putting the development and implementation of apprenticeships at the hands of employers has been welcomed by People 1st, but the sector skills council fears that the models developed in other sectors will not be...
Fair Deal for Your Local - the campaign group that demands a halt to the exploitation of licensees by large pubcos - has written a letter to Business Secretary Vince Cable insisting a ‘market-rent-only’ (MRO) option for pub tenants is a simple, moderate...
The owners of The Boundary Hotel in London and The Pig Hotel in Hampshire were celebrating last night after winning the Independent Hotelier of the Year and Outstanding Hotel of the Year awards respectively.
Land Securities is continuing its transformation of London’s Victoria with Spanish restaurant Ibérica secured for the property firm’s upcoming Zig Zag Building and two high street operators soon to open within its 62 Buckingham Gate development.
