New World Pubco, the pub arm of Living Ventures, is to open its fourth site in Liverpool after receiving £2.7m of funding from Hill Capital Partners Food & Beverage fund.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts has announced Roeland Vos, president of its Europe, Africa, & Middle East (EAME) region, will step down to be succeeded by Starwood veteran Michael Wale.
Following a strong set of sales results in 2012 for Italian restaurant chain Prezzo, chief executive Jonathan Kaye has reported a ‘good start’ to 2013 and is keen to expand the business along with the group’s Mexican concept, Chimichanga.
Scottish restaurateur Tony Hussain has revealed major expansion plans for his Italian restaurant brand Papa Tony's which could see up to 23 new sites open in Scotland by 2018 and the brand reach England for the first time.
In an exclusive video interview with BigHospitality, Travelodge chief executive Grant Hearn has revealed how he plans to learn from the growth of supermarkets as he leads the budget hotel operator following its turbulent recent past.
Tiger Bills, the restaurant concept launched by Lifestyle Hospitality Group (LHG) in 2007, has signed its first regional, multiple franchisee in the Midlands and has revealed a target list of 24 cities in which it wishes to operate.
The Goring has been awarded The Tea Guild's 2013 Top London Afternoon Tea Award after gaining a 'near perfect' score from the guild's anonymous judges.
The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) has whittled down the competition for its prestigious 2013 Licensee of the Year Award, with a rigorous examination process identifying six top publicans from across the UK as the final candidates.
The head chef and co-owner of the 16-cover Artisan restaurant in Hessle has claimed that a Michelin star could have potentially changed the fate of the fine-dining restaurant which is now set to close at the end of the month.
Sodexo Prestige is to open a riverside bar on the upper deck of museum ship HMS Belfast this summer following the opening of a café bar next to the main entrance.
Marriott International has brought its luxury, independent hotel brand the Autograph Collection into the UK this spring with the 74-bedroom Threadneedles in London and the 65-bedroom Glasshouse in Edinburgh.
North West entrepreneur and restaurateur Jaf Siddiqi has launched a new bar and restaurant concept in Liverpool which he is hoping to use as the blueprint for a number of new venues in the area.
Budget hotel chain Travelodge has today moved a step closer to completing the offload of 49 hotels under its financial restructuring programme, with 18 properties transferring to new owners and 20 moving under franchise agreements.
The rising cost of food has forced restaurants and pubs to push up the price of dishes on their menus by 6 per cent over the last six months with the average price of a dish now up to £6.69 from £6.29
The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has urged hospitality businesses to ensure they guard against asbestos exposure after Britannia Hotels was fined £160k and ordered to pay more than £40k in costs following a recent court case.
Budget hotel group Z Hotels will open its first venue outside London this month when it opens a hotel in Liverpool city centre ahead of the launch of a new property in Glasgow and further expansion in the capital.
Rob Star, a club and event promoter who currently owns two London pubs, has acquired his third site and will open the Star by Hackney Downs this month as part of a plan to eventually operate six venues in the capital.
Two high-profile mobile pizza vendors are taking permanent premises in London, becoming the latest outfits to join the capital’s booming premium pizza market.
The management team of The Mere Golf Resort & Spa in Cheshire has revealed its intention to set up a hotel management business next year that could see it take its successful operational blueprint to other properties across the North West.
Jamie Oliver has announced his original Fifteen restaurant will be re-launched at the end of April with a more relaxed, neighbourhood restaurant feel following a full refurbishment.
Oxfordshire-based pub operator Brakspear has opened its first managed pub in Henley-on-Thames and has said it is not ruling out operating further managed sites.
The Hospitality Action charity (HA) is calling on organisations and professionals from all sectors of the hospitality industry to unite for the fifth annual Hospitality Action Week which takes place from 13-19 May.
London-based Italian restaurant group Made in Italy will re-launch its 'signature' restaurant Luna Rossa next month as part of development plans for the business.
The Ivy House pub in Southwark is set to reopen this summer after a co-operative group completed an acquisition of the venue which they successfully listed as a community asset under the Localism Act.
International restaurant group Hakkasan has closed its fine-dining Japanese restaurant concept Chrysan just six months after opening the site on Broadgate West.
The Key - a mysterious new cocktail bar, restaurant and live music lounge situated in a ‘hidden location’ in London’s West End – is set to open in May as the first in a series of themed bars across the capital from a new collective of nightclub and private...
Nadia Santini, head chef at Dal Pescatore in Italy, has been named as the 2013 Veuve Clicquot World's Best Female Chef by The World's 50 Best Restaurants, sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna.
Jason Atherton is planning to launch two further London restaurants by the end of this year, adding to the spring openings of Little Social and Social Eating House.
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has hailed the scrapping of the Beer Duty Escalator in last month’s Budget as ‘a new beginning’ for the British pub and brewing industries as the consumer group launches a month-long celebration of British community pubs.
Chef and restaurateur Jason Atherton talks about his growing restaurant empire and comparisons with his former boss Gordon Ramsay in an exclusive interview with Restaurant magazine this month.
MasterChef 2010 finalist Alex Rushmer and his business partner chef Ben Maude have opened their second restaurant in a Cambridgeshire pub owned by members of the local community.
Sunaina Sethi, sommelier at one Michelin-star restaurant Trishna, is set to open The Pearson Room, her first solo restaurant, in Canary Wharf later this month.
James Robson, the owner of British brasserie Mews of Mayfair, has taken over the site of Rocket in Mayfair and turned it into his own pizza restaurant.
Hotels outside London have experienced revenue and profit growth for the first time since 2009 according to the latest UK Chain Hotels Market Review by market intelligence firm HotStats.
In spite of what is expected to be the coldest Easter since 1910, hotels, restaurants and pubs are gearing up for the ‘eggs-tended’ weekend with as over 2.5m Brits plan to take at least one overnight holiday trip here in the UK.
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has announced it has agreed to sell the famous InterContinental London Park Lane hotel for £301.5m to Constellation Hotel (Opco) UK, an affiliate of Middle Eastern private investment group Constellation Hotels.
Italian restaurant group Carluccio's is celebrating a 'record year' after its annual results brought pre-tax profits of £6.8m, a 15 per cent rise on the previous year.
An entrepreneur in south London has turned to crowdfunding website Kickstarter to help raise funds to set up London's first self-sustaining community gastropub.
Husband and wife business partners Charlie Raworth and Emma Hutchinson, who run the two Shepherd’s Bush live music and events venues Bush Hall and The Music House for Children, are set to launch a neighbouring all-day restaurant this spring.
De Vere Village Urban Resorts is placing an extra focus on attracting the family market with the launch of Vinny & Vito, a new healthy casual dining Italian restaurant brand which the hotel group hopes will appeal to what it calls an ‘increasingly...
London-based bar operator ETM Group has just agreed terms to open a modern European restaurant and cocktail bar on the ground floor of the One Canada Square skyscraper in Canary Wharf.
Street Kitchen – the Airstream caravan concept from Jun Tanaka and Mark Jankel – has just opened up a third venue on Shoreditch High Street, which will run until the end of the year ahead of a potential permanent site within the upcoming Shoreditch Village...
Hotel giant Accor has today announced the launch of Adagio – its European aparthotel brand – into the UK, with the first property opening in Liverpool tomorrow (27 March) and more to follow in Birmingham, London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Glasgow.
Cocktail bar group Be At One opens its first site outside London this week in Reading and is set to open up to 10 venues outside the capital as it looks to grow to 30 sites within three years.
Take five and catch up with the latest innovations in tea and coffee within the industry in the second installment of our focus on non-alcoholic drinks.
Pan Asian restaurant chain Cosmo, which currently has 12 sites across the UK, is set to open its first outlet in the East Midlands next month with the conversion of a 15,000 sq.ft cinema in Derby into an all-you-can-eat buffet, serving 180 dishes from...
