Sophie Michell, one of the youngest female executive chefs in Britain, is heading up Pont St. – a contemporary seafood restaurant opening on the former site of Hix Belgravia within Thompson’s five-star Belgraves hotel in London.
Fayre & Square, the 157-strong family pub offering from Spirit Pub Company, is the latest brand to tap into the rising popularity of American food concepts with the launch of its new autumn menu.
The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has developed the first ever sustainability accreditation for food destinations, after its research found that 70 per cent of consumers would choose a sustainable restaurant given the option, and more than...
VQ, the 24-hour café and diner on London’s Fulham Road, is opening a second venue in the capital after almost 18 years, having acquired the ground-floor unit of the St Giles Hotel in Bloomsbury.
Union Street Café, the long-awaited restaurant from the Gordon Ramsay Group, has unveiled the chef that will be heading up the venue and the dishes that will be on offer when it opens near Borough Market later this month.
ZaZa Bazaar, the world banquet and bar concept, has secured its second site in the Gate, Newcastle, and toldM&C Report that it has a pipeline in place for further openings next year.
Hoxley and Porter, a new restaurant and cocktail bar inspired by ‘Victorian gentlemen's clubs, Colonial Poirot, Egyptian noir, and surrealist jungles’, is opening in Islington this month.
DHP Family, the bar operator and live music promotions company, has secured its first site in London with the leasehold acquisition of the 7,000 sq.ft former station building in Hackney.
A former bank in Birmingham city centre is set to undergo a £16m revamp which will see it re-open as a 137-bedroom hotel, 53 serviced apartments and a new café/restaurant next year.
Koh Thai, the four-strong Thai tapas concept, hopes to grow to 20 sites over the next five years and is in talks over a number of different funding options for future expansion, our sister title M&C Report has learnt.
The team behind PING, Love Brunch and Bungalow 8 are expanding their Caribbean restaurant concept The Rum Kitchen, with a second site opening in Soho this autumn and a third being looked at in Shoreditch.
Visionary chef and restaurateur Simon Rogan has come up trumps in the Good Food Guide, with his Cartmel restaurant L’Enclume once again scoring a perfect 10 out of 10 and this year snatching top spot from Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck.
One of Korea’s most popular restaurant chains is actively seeking franchisees in the UK after seeing a ‘huge potential’ to partner with an established F&B firm here.
Golf resort and hotel The Belfry, has appointed Glen Watson, a former chef consultant to Albert Roux, its chef director in a bid to turn the West Midlands hotel into a top gastronomic destination.
Carlson Rezidor UK & Ireland global sales director Edward Pinchard has commenced his new role with the launch of a 'bold' price promotion designed to boost trade within Park Inn by Radisson's meetings division.
Former Notting Hill nightclub Cherryjam will re-open in October as Shimmy with LoveBrunch duo Hugo Heathcote and Deji Carr hoping to take the venue 'back to its legendary musical roots of the noughties'.
The Restaurant Group, owner of the Frankie & Benny's, Chiquito, Garfunkel's and Coast to Coast restaurant brands, says it has seen an 'excellent performance' across all its brands in the first half of 2013.
JD Wetherspoon has invited selected craft brewers from America to produce their beers in the UK as part of a new initiative to capitalise on the UK's growing interest in craft beer.
Adam Byatt owns and runs both the Clapham fine-dining restaurant Trinity and casual concept Bistro Union – which he is hoping to expand. However the renowned chef, who learnt his trade at Claridge’s, has also faced challenges on the road to success.
The Good Pub Guide has predicted that between 2,500 and 4,000 pubs will go out of business over the next year because they have failed to keep up with rising standards across the industry.
Grillshack, a new restaurant financially backed by Richard Caring and run by former Gordon Ramsay chef Mark Askew and ex-Hakkasan and ETM Group operations director Hannah Bass, will open in Soho's Beak Street next month.
Ning restaurants co-owner and executive chef Norman Musa is aiming to introduce more of the trade and home cooks to Malaysian food with the launch of three new product lines designed for foodservice and retail.
The hotel sector 'is in good shape' to take advantage of an upturn in the economy, according to business advisory and accountancy firm BDO LLP, who reports an increase in occupancy in London and the regions one year on from The London Olympics.
Risk Capital Partners, the Luke Johnson-led investment vehicle, has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Red Hot World Buffet (RHWB), the seven-strong group, founded by Helen and Parmjit Dhaliwal.
Restaurants, hotels and pubs have seen business volumes rise at their fastest rate since August 2007, according to the CBI's quarterly Service Sector Survey with further growth expected 'through this year and into next'.
Joe Walters, the entrepreneur behind the Texas Joe’s beef jerky brand whose investors include BrewDog co-founder James Watt, has said he hopes to open a chain of barbecue and craft beer restaurants nationwide after securing his first stand-alone site...
The number of completed hotel transactions has risen 28 per cent in the last year according to agents at Colliers International who say there is strong demand from private and corporate buyers looking to invest in 'quality assets and locations'.
South African-born Wayne Androliakos is general manager at Staybridge Suites, London Stratford, the extended-stay hotel he opened just a month before the start of the London Olympics. The hotelier has clocked up experience with a number of big-brand hotels,...
Predictions of warm weather for the August Bank Holiday, coupled with an already strong summer, have led to an increase in the number of Brits planning to take a trip in the UK over the weekend which could result in an industry trade boost of £1bn, says...
Copita and Barrica founder Tim Luther and business partner Nigel Howell will open a traditional Sherry tavern in London this autumn with plans to 'reignite' the nation's thirst for the 'often misunderstood wines'.
Prezzo, the Jonathan Kaye-led restaurant group, will open four sites in total this year under new brand Cleaver before assessing the potential of the chicken, burgers and ribs concept.
London's Bermondsey Square Hotel has refuted claims that Gregg Wallace's restaurant Gregg's Bar & Grill is being closed later this year because it received negative reviews.
A third branch of German beer, food and entertainment concept The Bavarian Beerhouse is set to open in Bristol this month as the company looks to expand outside its London heartland.
Smiths of Smithfield is to launch a new all-day dining concept called SMITHS on the site of John Torode's former restaurant The Luxe in London’s Spitalfields Market next month.
Thai restaurant group Mae Ping will re-launch its Wimbledon branch as a Thai tapas restaurant next month following a successful trial of the concept across its estate.
Edinburgh's dining scene is almost unimaginable without Tom Kitchin and Dominic Jack, chef-patrons of the Michelin-starred The Kitchin and Castle Terrace restaurants who recently opened their family-friendly dining pub The Scran & Scallie.
Burger & Lobster has confirmed it will open its fifth London restaurant on the fifth floor of Knightsbridge department store Harvey Nichols this autumn.
A report into consumer attitudes towards eating out has shown that diners now care more about whether restaurants offer healthy and nutritious dishes and deal with food waste effectively than if they serve locally-sourced or organic food.
The hospitality sector could be losing up to £37m per year because it is failing to recover uniforms and equipment from staff when they leave their jobs, says workwear specialist Alexandra.
Wagamama and Hakkasan founder Alan Yau is planning to open a new Chinese gastropub concept in Soho, having acquired The Endurance Pub on Berwick Street.
