Scottish pub and bar operator Maclay Inns has increased its portfolio to 27 and strengthened its hold in the craft beer market with the opening of Munro's in Glasgow's West End.
John Lovering, the former chairman of Mitchells & Butlers (M&B), has backed the team behind a new food-led pub group - Fireside Pubs & Restaurants - which is looking to open around 20 pubs in the south east within three to five years.
In the first of a week of news stories detailing launches of technology products for the hospitality industry to support our special feature, BigHospitality reveals details of the latest update to Posera's Maitre’D EPoS software.
Catering giant Sodexo and restaurant and pub supplier Burger Manufacturing Company (BMC) are the latest businesses to fall foul of the horsemeat scandal after some of their products have tested positive for equine DNA.
Anthony's Restaurant, the fine-dining eatery opened in Leeds by Anthony Flinn, is to be relocated to the city's Corn Exchange to join another of the chef's businesses - Piazza by Anthony.
Hotels across the UK suffered a drop in RevPAR in the first month of the year with the poor weather and the timing of the New Year Bank Holiday both blamed.
The restaurant industry in 2025 will have to face lower profit margins and greater technological challenges, although robotics will help improve efficiency, according to a new report.
Alan Bird was chef at the Ivy for 19 years before going on to work with the Soho House Group. His first restaurant Bird of Smithfield, a five-storey bar, restaurant and events space, is due to open its doors at the end of March in Smithfields, London.
Reading and responding to posts left by guests on online review websites takes up to three hours out of a hotel general manager's working week, a survey has shown.
After a four month closure, the Greyhound Inn in Hampshire is set to re-open under new management next month as The Greyhound on the Test – a country pub with rooms and a classic British restaurant.
The UK's largest independent tenanted and leased pub company has partnered with e-learning provider Red Lion Training to launch the Award for Personal Licence Holders (APLH) exam, which provides a cheaper, quicker and more convenient way into the...
Roomzzz, the fast-growing aparthotel brand which has seven UK sites to its name, is venturing into Scotland having secured two more properties in ‘prime locations’ in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Chef Cyrus Todiwala has devised a competition for catering students to get more of them to consider a career within the Asian restaurant sector in a bid to help plug a future skills shortage.
After saving Luminar from administration in December 2011, Peter Marks labelled the business 'a crash waiting to happen', but the nightclub veteran was convinced he could restore the industry giant to its former glory. Just over a year on, are...
Simon Radley, executive chef at the Michelin-starred Chester Grosvenor hotel, has launched a chef academy to help give young people with a passion for food the chance to learn how to become a chef while on-the-job.
The owners of Christopher's American Grill in London are hoping to bring a 'new lease of life' to the Covent Garden restaurant following a three month refurbishment project.
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has described 2012 as a year of 'significant progress' for the company as it revealed revenue per available room (RevPAR) grew by 2.5 per cent in the UK.
John Derkach, the chief executive of Tragus, has revealed he hopes to have completed an ambitious project to refurbish the ‘vast bulk’ of the Café Rouge estate within three years in order to make the brand more contemporary.
Revere Pub Company, the unbranded and premium pub format created by Marston's, has revealed it will open its first pub with rooms next month and plans to operate seven by the end of 2013.
Italian restaurant chain Obikà has acquired a site in Charlotte Street for its third UK restaurant with plans to open a fourth venue, also in the West End, later this year.
The general manager of the Hard Days Night hotel in Liverpool has been forced to close all 110 of its bedrooms until further notice after a fire broke out on the four-star hotel's fifth floor on Valentine's Day.
The UK's booming specialist world cuisine restaurant sector appears to have received a reprieve as the Home Office has been advised to keep skilled chefs on the Shortage Occupation List allowing restaurateurs to continue to employ non-EU chefs.
De Vere has signed three deals to launch its first Scottish hotels under the Village Urban Resorts brand with chief executive Robert Cook hoping the properties in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen will be open by autumn 2014.
The UK’s largest hotel and restaurant operator, Whitbread, has found horsemeat in its lasagne and beef burger products that were reportedly sold in Premier Inn, Brewers Fayre, Beefeater Grill and Table Table outlets.
Late Night London, the subsidiary of Novus Leisure which owns 45 restaurants, bars and nightclubs across the capital, has just completed the refurbishment of three of its venues and is set to re-launch another next month.
Following a planned refurb, Gordon Ramsay's three Michelin-starred Chelsea eatery Restaurant Gordon Ramsay is to be relaunched in partnership with head chef Clare Smyth who will become standing chef-patron of the business.
Ibis, the economy hotel brand from France-based global operator Accor, has been named as the leading hotel brand in Europe with 1,277 hotels now operating under the Ibis name.
Frenchman Frederic Brugues started his career as commis sommelier for Marco Pierre White in 1996. As wine director for London restaurant Sketch he has steadily built up the wine cellar to over 750 bins. He consults on individual tastes and requirements...
The Giggling Squid in Crawley was raided last night by the UK Border Agency over what turned out to be false claims that the Thai restaurant has been employing illegal workers.
Two pubs linked to Marco Pierre White's Wheeler's of St James's brand are among five venues up for sale after pub company Powder Train entered administration earlier this month.
With the Government currently investigating how horsemeat has made it into processed beef products, restaurant, hotel and pub owners are being urged to take extra steps to know the provenance of the produce they are using to avoid being embroiled in future...
The owner of the Princess of Shoreditch pub in East London has claimed that running a pub in the current climate isn’t difficult, and that the reason so many pubs are closing across the UK is because they’re being run by people that ‘don’t know what they’re...
Denmark-based Japanese restaurant chain Sticks'n'Sushi has revealed it has secured a venue in Covent Garden for its second UK site which it hopes to open before Autumn 2013.
Town & Country Inns is set to launch Fleet Street Kitchen, a new ‘farm to fork’ British restaurant featuring a Barbacoa open-fire grill, which will sit alongside the bar operator’s Après and Mechu outlets in Birmingham’s Summerrow development.
The Clove Club Restaurant & Bar, the business from chef Isaac McHale which has been partly funded by investors using a crowdfunding website, is set to open in Shoreditch Town Hall next month.
The team behind city-based contemporary Japanese restaurant K10 has said it plans to continue expansion following the opening of its second restaurant in Appold Street, London, at the end of the month.
The Baum in Rochdale, Lancashire, has today been crowned the best pub in Britain by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) in its National Pub of the Year competition.
Rebecca Dibben, restaurant supervisor at Deseo Mediterranean Restaurant at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland, has won the first Gold Service Scholarship after wowing judges with her 'charm, enthusiasm and technical skill'.
Food and drink sales at railway stations are continuing to rise faster than those on the high street according to the latest figures from Network Rail, who says that the areas now provide operators with some of the most lucrative trading environments...
Hotel planning application data from 2012 indicates that there is a significant net investment growth in the sector, but the opening of 31 properties in London this year could in fact cause a decline in Revenue per Available Room (RevPAR) across the capital.
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has confirmed the third River Cottage Canteen restaurant will open in Bristol on 4 March and will help showcase growers, breeders and producers in the area.
Nick Brodie, new head chef at Welsh country house hotel Llangoed Hall, has revealed ambitions for a Michelin star and four AA rosettes after taking up the helm at its restaurant.
Wahaca founders Mark Selby and Thomasina Miers’ unconventional approach to business has created a burgeoning Mexican chain that’s showing no sign of slowing.
City Pub Company, the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS)-funded pub operator established by the team behind the Capital Pub Company, has unveiled plans to raise a further £10m to expand its estate of ‘individual’ pubs across the South of England.
A two-year focus by hotel chain Jurys Inn to refurbish its estate and re-position itself as a 'credible alternative' to four-star and budget hotels has paid off with the company seeing an increase in corporate guest business of 8 per cent over...
With Valentine's Day fast approaching, hotels, restaurants and pubs and bars are looking for innovative ways to market their business but one hotel believes its campaign is truly unique - it is testing brand new Twitter video app Vine.