New York restaurateur Danny Meyer, who opens the first branch of his burger restaurant Shake Shack outside of the US in London tomorrow, believes there is plenty of space within the market for more burger restaurants, saying he welcomed the arrival of...
The eight chefs who will battle it out at The Restaurant Show to be crowned National Chef of the Year 2013 have been revealed after four toughly-contested semi-finals.
The co-owner of a new restaurant in Watford has said the domination of branded restaurant chains and fast food outlets is making it increasingly difficult for independents to stay afloat and contributing to Britain’s obesity crisis.
Warwickshire-based business CD Pub Co has added a third venue to its portfolio of food-led pubs, having purchased the freehold of The Lygon Arms in Feckenham from Enterprise Inns.
Less than a week after DoubleTree by Hilton entered Dundee, Hilton Worldwide’s upscale hotel brand has added the DoubleTree by Hilton London Hyde Park to its growing portfolio, following a £10m refurbishment of the 228-bedroom property.
Hawksmoor, Be At One and Luminar were among the big winners of the inaugural ‘Late Night Awards’ from the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR), held at a special ‘Dusk ‘til Dawn’ event in London’s Café de Paris earlier this week.
Chef Scott Hallsworth, who announced new Japanese izykaya Kurobuta earlier this week, has said he plans to roll the concept out to other sites once the original is established.
The battle for control over the budget hotel market has today taken another turn as Whitbread has announced the launch of ‘Hub by Premier Inn’, a new city centre brand offering rooms around 25 per cent cheaper than standard Premier Inn pricing.
Chef Bruno Loubet's new restaurant Grain Store, which unusually places vegetables, instead of meat or fish at the heart of its dishes, is put under scrutiny in the July issue of Restaurant magazine.
Staff at Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's held their last service yesterday (Sunday 30 June) before the restaurant closed its doors for good after 12 years residing at the five-star London hotel.
Marco Pierre White has given the thumbs up to an initiative in Nottingham which will see its restaurants, pubs and other eating-out venues placed centre stage as part of a move to promote independent businesses in the city.
The shortlist for the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards 2013 has been announced and 86 UK venues, including The Tramshed, Sushisamba and Cabana, have scooped nominations.
On the same day that we announced a former MasterChef: The Professionals finalist would be opening a 14-cover restaurant in Notting Hill, BigHospitality has heard from another London-based restaurateur who is opening a similar-sized venue in Bermondsey.
Worcestershire-based hotel group Cotswold Inns & Hotels has acquired the 19-bedroom Close Hotel in Tetbury, Gloucestershire, taking the company's estate of hotels up to eight.
A marketing graduate who gave up a lucrative career in insurance to work as a chef in some of London’s top restaurants has just opened the first restaurant of his own near Ramsgate in Kent.
Marianne Lumb, a finalist in the 2009 series of MasterChef: The Professionals, is to launch her first restaurant – an eponymous 14-cover venture in Notting Hill – in September.
A former lawyer, Julia Hands founded Hand Picked Hotels in 1999 with her private equity financier husband - Guy Hands. Her hands-on approach has helped the collection grow to 17 purposefully individual hotels which will soon be joined by two recent acquisitions.
Strong sales of food, wine and coffee across Greene King's pub and restaurant estate over the last year helped push sales up 4.8 per cent to £1.194m and pre-tax profit up almost 7 per cent to £162m it reported today.
The team behind a number of successful London bars and nightclubs including Barts and Bunga Bunga have brought ‘70s Manhattan’ to Soho with the launch of underground nightclub, Disco.
The new head chef of the Hambrough is on a mission to take the hotel and restaurant ‘to the next level’, following Robert Thompson’s departure from the Isle of Wight business earlier this year.
TV chef and restaurateur Simon Rimmer has announced plans to open a restaurant at the Doubletree by Hilton in Liverpool when it opens its doors for business later this year.
BRGR.CO, part of the ‘burger boom’ that hit central London last year, is opening a second site in the capital this autumn, having secured the former Black & Blue unit on King’s Road in Chelsea.
Accor has unveiled a new-look Mercure hotel as part of its plans to accelerate expansion of the mid-scale brand and reach its target of 1,000 hotels worldwide by 2018.
Restaurant group Prezzo, the operator of the eponymous Italian chain and Mexican concept Chimichanga, has launched a new brand specialising in chicken, burger and ribs, with a debut site having just opened in Cobham, Surrey.
Hutong at The Shard - the second of three restaurants to take up residence in the iconic London skyscraper - opens today. Ahead of the opening, BigHospitality was invited to tour the restaurant and meet David Yeo, the owner and founder of Aqua Restaurant...
London hotels enjoyed a second consecutive month of profit growth in May, driven by an increase in revenue per available room (RevPAR), but their regional counterparts also had a successful month, according to two new reports.
The branded restaurant market is predicted to grow by £5.6bn to £22bn over the next five years as it continues to win market share from independents according to a report by Allegra Strategies.
The Hospitality Guild is to host its second Twitter debate on apprenticeships this week in a bid to help employers and potential new staff understand more about the route into the industry.
Julia Hands, the founder of Hand Picked Hotels, has told BigHospitality she does not expect the four-star country house hotel collection to be much larger than 20 venues so the business manages to keep its family-run feeling.
Simpsons head chef and UK Bocuse d'Or candidate Adam Bennett has been appointed chef director of The Cross, the Kenilworth pub chef and restaurateur Andreas Antona takes over at the end of this month.
Russell Norman and Richard Beatty have secured a site on Berwick Street for the return of Polpetto, the pair's popular Soho restaurant, which will once again feature Florence Knight in charge of the kitchen.
The owner of a new Soho restaurant claims that simple, authentic ingredients, a good selection of wines and a well-priced lunch menu are the key to success in such a popular market, as she prepares for the official opening.
Anthony’s Restaurant Ltd, the company run by popular Leeds-based chef Anthony Flinn, has entered administration - all four of the group's restaurants in the Yorkshire city were closed last week.
The Government’s alcohol duty escalator is being blamed for a continual drop in sales of wine and spirits in the UK’s restaurants, pubs and hotels as research shows that British drinkers now pay 43 per cent more for alcohol than their European counterparts.
Turtle Bay, the four-strong Caribbean restaurant concept developed by one of the founders of Las Iguanas, has secured yet more funding to aid its expansion plans to open a further 20 outlets over the next three to five years.
Bermondsey Street bar and restaurant Village East is to close in July for a refurbishment which will include a 'dramatic overhaul' of the kitchen ahead of a re-opening in September.
South African flame-grilled burger chain Steers is making its first foray into the UK this summer with a first site opening in Clapham next month which could potentially be the first of many.
Michelin-starred Murano chef Angela Hartnett has partnered with British restaurant chain Canteen for the opening of Merchant’s Tavern restaurant and bar in Shoreditch this September.
Husband and wife Murray and Hazel Ward have been involved in the hospitality industry for all of their working lives. The young Scottish couple, who met at Edinburgh’s Tigerlily hotel, now help to run the nearby Rutland hotel - which includes gourmet...
Bar and nightclub owner Luminar has been allowed to continue trading one of its largest venues in Kingston under a new set of licence conditions after the fatal stabbing of a 20-year-old clubber last year.
Soho House Group is set to further develop its partnership with US restaurateur Brendan Sodikoff with the opening the Soho Diner on Old Compton Street early next month.
The Government is in danger of stifling and overlooking food and restaurant start-up businesses which could hold the key to economic growth, a new report has claimed.
UK restaurateurs and front-of-house staff have slammed the decision of a New York restaurant to outlaw tipping, calling the move 'ridiculous' and one that should not be adopted by venues on this side of the pond.
Today’s announcement that the first luxury Chinese hotel brand to open oversees will be in London has been welcomed by Mayor Boris Johnson as ‘yet another sign of the soaring global confidence’ in the capital.
David Colcombe, chef director of Opus Restaurant in Birmingham, has opened a new café under the Opus brand in the city and has said coffee shops could be a better option than brasseries and pubs for restaurateurs looking to expand.
