The Bristol Thali Company is set to open its biggest restaurant to date this week with a view to expanding further and opening its first UK venue outside Bristol by the end of the year.
A selection of international chefs from the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list are uniting ahead of this year’s event to run ‘The Lab’, a three-night restaurant experience offering live entertainment, masterclasses and an interactive mixology workshop.
Andrew Fishwick, a successful theatre producer whose work has won Olivier awards, is to open the Truscott Arms pub in Maida Vale as a 'creative hub of fine food, drink and art.'
Just days after BigHospitality reported on the recent flurry of restaurant launches in Covent Garden, Heaton, Butler & Bayne – a modern British all-day dining concept from London-based restaurateur Robert Siegler - is now set to open on the corner...
MasterChef: The Professionals 2012 joint winner Keri Moss has embarked on her first restaurant venture, heading up the new Corner Restaurant and Champagne Bar on the second floor of Selfridges.
The Melville Bar, an Edinburgh pub which was closed after the previous leaseholder ran into difficulty, has reopened after it was refurbished by a pair of property developers who wanted to take the venue back to its former glory.
The 54-year-old chef and co-owner of acclaimed restaurant Northcote in rural Lancashire is the founder of the well-established Obsession food festival. He and business partner Craig Bancroft also own the four-strong gastropub group Ribble Valley Inns...
Now the dust has settled on George Osborne's fourth Budget speech, the race is on to identify the winners and losers from this year's announcements. BigHospitality has pored over the detail so you don't have to - our audio report contains...
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has said its growth strategy in Europe will focus on key cities as the company as a whole concentrates on its 'preferred brands' such as Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza.
Restaurant, hotel and pub owners will need to continue to train and develop their staff if they want to improve retention levels, says sector skills council People 1st with the release of its fourth State of the Nation report.
Following the delivery of the Budget by Chancellor George Osborne earlier today BigHospitality caught up with some of the key organisations representing pubs, hotels and restaurants as well as individual operators for their reaction.
The Savoy hotel is embracing a more casual style of dining with the opening of Kaspar’s Seafood Bar and Grill on Thursday 2 May, in place of the short-lived River Restaurant.
Today, once again, the Chancellor will present a Budget which will be closely watched for signs of improvement in the economy or help for businesses, but with rumours swirling about the future of the beer duty escalator, hospitality industry professionals...
Signature Living, which operates a number of serviced apartments and accommodation businesses in Liverpool, has acquired the city's Print Building and will open the Signature Hotel on the site later this month.
A website which helps conference and meeting organisers find venues easier has seen an increase in the number of hotels signing up to its service which its managing director believes is a sign of greater confidence in the meetings market.
It was known as the place to grab a pasty while watching the circus acts perform, a tick on a London tourist's destination list. But with a flurry of restaurant launches, most recently Keith McNally’s Balthazar, Covent Garden is once again a respected...
The Hoxton Bar and Kitchen has been sold to live-music-focussed firm Mama Group by the London-based restaurant and bar operator Barworks as the business looks to grow its portfolio of bars across London and expand its restaurant arm The Diner Group at...
Chinawhite, the Fitzrovia nightspot which has become a popular haunt for celebrities, will re-open later this month as ‘Libertine’ as the venue’s director looks to ‘update the nightclub formula and offer some new experiential twists’.
KSL Capital Partners, the US company which bought The Belfry last year, has acquired Malmaison and Hotel du Vin owner the Malmaison Group for an estimated £180m.
Restaurant Associates, the restaurant management arm of Compass Group, has begun the process of finding a new chef to headline its restaurant at Tower 42 in London following the news that its relationship with Gary Rhodes is to come to an end.
The Forestry Commision, which manages the Westonbirt tree collection in Gloucestershire, has appointed Calcot Hotels’ outside catering arm Calcot Kitchens to run its public restaurant and café facilities.
Former Welsh rugby league star Richard Wallace has dropped the price of his Usk Valley hotel, Llanwenarth Hotel, by £125k in order to force a quick sale because his ill health means he is no longer fit enough to run it.
Hawaiian burger and sandwich concept Kua ‘Aina, which currently has one UK restaurant in Soho, is actively seeking funding to open two more sites in central London this year, with hopes to expand to up to 20 outlets by 2020, BigHospitality can reveal.
Grant Hearn, Travelodge chief executive, has revealed the budget hotel company will open three more London hotels this year and is hoping to operate a further 145 in the capital over the next 15 years.
Adam Reid has been unveiled as the head chef of The French by Simon Rogan, which opened this week within QHotels' Manchester property The Midland Hotel.
This young husband and wife are a pub success story, with a knack of reinvigorating dilapidated London boozers into profitable gastropubs. The pair took over the Princess of Shoreditch in 2008, doubling sales in less than a year. They then acquired the...
A nationwide project is currently underway to help restaurants, pubs and hotels find more effective ways to recycle their unwanted food waste and help meet targets set by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme).
Pub giant JD Wetherspoon posted a ‘reasonable’ set of results for the half-year ending 27 January 2013, with the burden of what the Group calls ‘stealth taxes’ contributing to a drop of 2.7 per cent in its pre- tax profit to £34.8m.
As the sixth annual National Apprenticeship Week draws to a close, an array of hotels, restaurants and pubs – and even Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg – have supported the initiative which promotes the positive impact that apprenticeships can have on...
Kopapa head chef Selim Kiazim, highlighted as a rising star by BigHospitality in 2008, is to leave her job at the end of the month to start on plans to open her own restaurant.
Hotel Inspector and Country House Rescue star Ruth Watson is on the lookout for restaurant, hotel and bar owners who feel they have been unfairly treated on social media or negatively reviewed through websites such as TripAdvisor, for a new Channel 4...
Jeremy Robson, managing director of asset management company RAM, will re-open the Great Northern Hotel at London's King's Cross next month following the completion of a £40m renovation programme.
Former Bohemia chef Shaun Rankin has revealed details of his anticipated restaurant in Jersey, which he hopes will become the flagship for a small restaurant empire that could see him opening a site in London for the first time under his name.
Supermarket giant Tesco has today announced that it has bought a 100 per cent stake in the 48-strong family restaurant chain Giraffe in a deal worth £48.6m.
Food travel firm SSP is set to open a new pub - The Grain Loft - in Manchester airport which will feature high-tech elements including 'sound pods' and self-service beer points.
Sourcing prowess, good contacts and general business aptitude has seen specialist wholesaler Brindisa spawn the capital’s most successful Spanish restaurant group.
Harbour Hotels will re-open the Salcombe Harbour Hotel in Devon this August following a multi-million pound refurbishment of its bedrooms and addition of a spa and restaurant that will be headed up by chef Alex Aitken.
Stonegate Pub Company was unveiled as the Best Pub Employer with more than 51 sites in the UK - a category judged by BigHospitality - at the 2013 Publican Awards last night at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal has been judged to have the lowest level of hidden salt in dishes on its menu compared to other so-called celebrity chef restaurants, according to a new report released by Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH).
Hotel companies Accor and Travelodge are among the firms who have offered to increase the number of apprenticeships they offer following a call by the organisers of National Apprenticeship Week for firms to employ more apprentices to help boost the economy....
Rene Redzepi, head chef and co-owner of Danish restaurant Noma, has said he is 'devastated' a number of diners at the number one venue on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list have recently contracted norovirus as a result of their visit.
Chefs and foodservice operators are being advised to use more seasonal ingredients in their menus over the coming months as food inflation and rising British meat prices in the wake of the horsemeat scandal look set to squeeze margins further.
The sixth National Apprenticeship Week kicks off today with organisers, supported by the hospitality industry, promising it will be the biggest yet; a new report has also said apprentices could contribute £3.4bn a year to the economy.
Pub operator JD Wetherspoon has opened its latest hotel and pub in Beccles, Suffolk, and will launch another venue in Whitby later this month ahead of further planned openings.
Frederick Forster, the 2011 winner of the National Chef of the Year contest, has joined forces with Miele to launch a pop-up restaurant which, it is claimed, is totally 'calorie-neutral'.
