John Paul McLachlan, the chef in charge of the restaurant at the MacDonald Marine Hotel & Spa in North Berwick, has taken over Bunney's deli and cafe in the town.
Fazenda, the Brazillian 'rodizio' restaurant concept with a single site in Leeds, is expanding into areas we’ve previously highlighted as upcoming ‘Hospitable Cities’, with a second site opening in Liverpool this autumn and more to follow in...
Love's Fresh Pasta, the restaurant that allows diners to design their own pasta or pizza dishes and order them via iPads or wall-mounted touch screens, has taken on the lease of a site in South Kensington where it plans to open its second restaurant...
Perceptions Group, the programme set up by bosses from across the pub sector to help train young people for careers within the industry, has extended its scheme to include chefs.
Giggling Squid, the fast-growing Thai restaurant chain, has secured a further two sites, including its first in the Midlands, a key part of its plans to have a national presence.
Tommi’s Burger Joint, the pop-up-to-permanent Icelandic burger restaurant which has just re-opened in Marylebone, reported 'fantastic’ sales in its first week, with director Robert Aron Magnusson claiming simplicity and quality are the key to success...
Chameleon Bar & Dining, which operates six pubs across Yorkshire and Lancashire, has reported healthy annual accounts in the year to 31 March, with turnover up and margins improved following a shift of focus towards becoming ‘destination food venues’.
Paul Askew, chef director of London Carriage Works and the Hope Street Hotel in Liverpool, is planning to open a smaller fine-dining restaurant in the city, BigHospitality can reveal.
The godfather of fusion cuisine and co-owner of The Providores and Tapa Room and Kopapa restaurants in London has just opened The Sugar Club on Level 53 of the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand.
For years Liverpool was viewed from afar as the second-best city in the North West never mind being a destination in its own right, but in the last few years it has risen like a Liver bird from the flames due in part to its burgeoning hospitality scene.
Shopping centre owner Intu is to start work on an 'innovative' new dining quarter at Lakeside shopping centre this month which will see 13 new food operators take up space there alongside existing brands Pizza Express, Ed's Easy Diner,...
TV chef and former Fifteen graduate Aaron Craze is to open his second pub after taking on a site in Berkshire, according to BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Report.
The ‘Arms’ are being removed from the Imperial Arms in Chelsea as the new owners of the popular King’s Road venue want to transform it from pub to restaurant.
After three months roaming London’s streets in its eponymous truck, South African street food vendor Bunnychow has secured its first semi-permanent site at one of the saught-after shipping containers within Shoreditch’s Boxpark development.
British rapper Professor Green, Hoxton Pony owner Gerry Calabrese and his brother Jon are to open a nightclub called INK in London's West End next month.
While it doesn’t have the same historical and cultural pull of yesterday’s hospitable city Edinburgh, the North Eastern city of Leeds is nevertheless fast becoming a hospitality hotspot with a growing eating-out market.
Two sisters – the co-founder and a former chef of the Salt Yard Group – are opening their first business together: LeCoq, a neighbourhood rotisserie chicken restaurant in Islington.
What better time to write about the Scottish capital than when the world’s biggest arts festival is in full swing? The Edinburgh Fringe brings in thousands of performers and tourists and its cosmopolitan and bohemian nature encapsulates the city’s year-round...
Llanwenarth Hotel, the hotel outside Abergavenny owned by former Welsh rugby league star Richard Wallace, has been bought by a local businessman after a year and a half of being on the market.
Budget hotel chain Travelodge has today become the largest hotel operator in Cambridge following an investment of £18m to open its sixth hotel in the city.
Edinburgh-based independent pub operator The Shilling Group has opened the doors of its sixth freehold establishment, The Cross & Corner, in the city centre.
Raymond Blanc-trained chef Chris Harrod has taken over The Crown at Whitebrook, the former Michelin-starred restaurant in Monmouthshire forced to close in March after it went into administration.
Beds and Bars, the UK-based hostel and bar group, has launched an online check-in and payment service across its St Christopher's Inns business to help 'transform the customer experience.'
Kaffir lime leaves, rhubarb, sardines and horseradish are among the on-trend ingredients that are expected to be in increasingly widespread use in international cuisine, according to a new report.
New music venue Belgrave Music Hall will open its doors in Leeds in October and will house two restaurants designed to support new street food concepts.
The owner of a construction firm and the founder of an online fashion shop have teamed up to launch their first restaurant and bar in London’s West End.
Hotels in Northern Ireland say they are struggling to compete against hotels across the border in the Republic of Ireland because the VAT rate for hospitality and tourism businesses there is lower.
Bō Làng, a new dim sum restaurant and teahouse, is set to open in Chelsea next month as founder Aytan Eldarova hopes her debut hospitality venture will showcase the diverse food culture of China.
Cabana, the fledgling Brazilian concept led by David Ponte, founder of the Momo and Mocoto restaurants and restaurateur Jamie Barber, has secured its fourth site in London at the Designer Outlet at Wembley and raised £3.5m of new funding.
Dorset hotel The Grosvenor Shaftesbury will re-open its doors next month as The Grosvenor Arms following a four month refurbishment of the ground floor.
The trend for restaurant chains to create separately branded spin-offs as a way of moving into new territory appears to be at an all-time high, with a number of branded players developing ‘satellite’ concepts over the past few months.
London-based brewer and pub operator Fuller’s is today opening the doors of a new ‘raw and exciting’ concept in Putney with an American diner theme, which could be rolled out to other venues if successful.
David Haimes has stepped down as group chief executive of Obika Holdings, the international mozzarella bar chain, ahead of the opening of the company's third and fourth sites, according to BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Report.
Having shed a number of under-performing sites, La Tasca chief executive Simon Wilkinson is quietly masterminding a turnaround at the Spanish casual-dining chain.
Rock & Oyster, a new seafood restaurant situated in the heart of Aberdeen, is opening tomorrow (8 August), with the 25-year-old head chef wanting to bring a bit of informality back to the city’s dining scene.
The team behind Velo, a cycling-themed café concept set to launch in Brighton, have confirmed the first venue will open as part of the restoration of The Level park.
Leeds-based bar operator Arc Inspirations is to open its 10th venue later this month in Leeds and is planning to add two further sites to its portfolio next year.
The Ginger Chef Ben McKellar, owner of Brighton-based Gingerman Restaurant Group, has been recruited by education caterer Chartwells to help them provide catering, hospitality and event dining at the University of Sussex.
The manager of an expanding burger business in Greater London says he welcomes the wave of burger joints flooding the capital in recent months, claiming there are still gaps in the market which can be exploited.
One year on from the London Olympics, hotels in the capital and outside it are reporting a boost to trade which they believe has been caused by the feelgood factor linked to last year's sporting event.
Accor has announced that 194 of its UK hotels will now offer guests free Wi-Fi after research showed that the service is the most important factor for business guests and that 27 per cent of holidaymakers wouldn't stay in a hotel if it didn't...
Thali Café, the fledgling Indian restaurant chain, is gearing up for its next stage of growth after the success of its new generation site and is looking to expand out of its Bristol heartland.
There's a new wave of Japanese food sweeping the capital that is challenging the traditions of both the cuisine itself and the manner in which it is served, says Restaurant magazine's Stefan Chomka, who speaks to those shaking up the Eastern...
Diciannove, a new Italian restaurant, deli and cicchetti bar, is set to open within the walls of Crowne Plaza London – The City later this month as the IHG-owned hotel looks to complement its existing Chinese restaurant and cocktail bar offerings.
The total foodservice and hospitality market in the UK is expected to be worth £90bn by 2018, according to Allegra Strategies’ Eating Out in the UK report as eating out becomes the ‘new normal’.
