With competition in the hospitality industry continuing to intensify, many businesses are turning to popular culture as a base for running themed evenings and events. BigHospitality has evaluated the effectiveness of a BAFTA art exhibition at Quaglino’s...
A prosecution brought against a pub showing live Premier League football on TV by using an Albanian satellite system has been ruled 'void' by the High Court with legal experts claiming other similar rulings may now be in doubt.
Budget hotel chain Travelodge has agreed a £635m debt restructuring deal, giving lenders control of the business and selling off 49 of its properties to other operators.
Conveyor belt sushi chain YO! Sushi has this week opened its 64th UK restaurant at Gatwick Airport, following on from the opening of a site at Waterloo Station and the re-opening of an airside venue at Heathrow’s Terminal 3.
Danish steak restaurant chain MASH is set to open its largest restaurant to date at a site in Soho as the group's owners reveal London's 'extremely exciting' dining scene helped it beat Stockholm and Hamburg to host the first venue...
Restaurateur Nick Parkinson and Michelin-starred chef Dominic Chapman have partnered with entrepreneur Eric Newnham to create NED Pubs which they plan to roll out with sites across the UK.
Sixty per cent of pubs saw an upturn in trade during the second week of the London 2012 Olympics, with one in five operators seeing like-for-likes increase by 11 per cent or more compared with the same period last year.
Isaac McHale, one half of The Young Turks chef collective, is preparing to jointly launch a set-menu restaurant in Shoreditch Town Hall, financed in part by 'crowdfunding' with the aim of opening two more sites for investors to benefit from.
Hilton Worldwide's area president Simon Vincent has used the opening ceremonies of two hotels at the National Football Centre to both encourage more visitors to Britain and promote hospitality as a worthwhile career for more young people.
Fast-casual noodle chain Wagamama has secured four new restaurants in the UK, less than two weeks after it appointed Steve Easterbrook as its new chief executive.
Vingt-Quatre, the 24-hour café and diner on London’s Fulham Road, has re-opened as ‘VQ’ following an extensive refurbishment and the business is now set to expand in the capital and other major cities.
Experienced north west restaurateur Jaf Siddiqi has promised his latest venture, premium Indian restaurant Malai, will help bring back the authenticity of the famous 'Curry Mile' area of south Manchester.
The week running up to the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics was the worst performing week of July for the UK’s leading restaurant, pub and bar groups, pushing an otherwise generally flat period into negative territory.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten's London outpost Spice Market London, has turned half of its two-floor restaurant into a dedicated noodle bar and lounge with the aim of capturing the all-day dining market.
Patrick McKillen has said he is considering appealing against last week's court verdict which ruled in favour of the Barclay brothers after he filed a case challenging the legality of the brothers' attempted takeover of Maybourne Hotel Group.
“You have shown the world the best of British hospitality,” said IOC president Jacques Rogge in his speech at the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics on Sunday evening. And the praise for the work of hotels, restaurants and pubs during the Games...
Two of Malcolm John’s restaurants - Le Cassoulet in South Croydon and Fish & Grill in Putney - have closed their doors after trade at the sites failed to pick up over the past 12 months.
Il Tempo, a restaurant and bar serving Italian drinks plus aperitivo dishes available on an open table, is set to open in Covent Garden in September; a concept the owner says is the first of its kind in London.
Jacob Sumner, responsible for US burrito chain Chipotle's expansion into and across the UK, talks about the business and its mission to show UK consumers that fast food doesn’t necessarily have to be bad food.
Dukebox, a new nightclub situated just off of London’s Fulham Road, is set to open its doors next month under a ‘grown-ups playground’ theme, featuring carousel horses, a magic roundabout dance podium and seating booths in the guise of Waltzer cars.
The Yummy Pub Company has announced it is to rollout its Ssshh Supper Club concept to The Gorringe Park pub in Tooting after the venue was bought by Charles Wells with the specific intention of the two companies jointly launching a second operation together.
Simon Rogan’s Michelin-starred restaurant L’Enclume has scored the perfect 10 in The Good Food Guide 2013, joining The Fat Duck as one of only two restaurants in the UK to achieve the maximum rating.
Drake and Morgan, the bar and restaurant operator run by Jillian Maclean, has announced it is to open two new sites in 2013 taking its portfolio of City of London venues to seven.
Umi hotels, the luxury budget hotel chain with sites in Notting Hill, Brighton and Moscow, has plans to expand under a franchise business model with an aim to sign up three new Umi-branded hotels in the UK over the next year.
As an increasing number of hospitality businesses are redefining their children’s offerings in a bid to boost business, BigHospitality evaluates the effectiveness of the Children’s Concierge service at Millennium & Copthorne Hotels, a new healthy...
The Factory House, a subterranean restaurant and bar celebrating ‘the age of modern industrialists’, is set to open in London’s Leadenhall Market next month.
The Earl of Doncaster Hotel has launched ‘Guinea Pig Night’, allowing guests to sample an unknown three-course meal at its restaurant before having the final say as to whether the dishes will make the new menu.
A restaurateur from the City has sent London Mayor Boris Johnson a bill for £90,000 after revealing her businesses turnover has dropped by 80 per cent because of the Olympic Games.
Born into a restaurateur family with an Italian father, Nick Crispini could have begun a hospitality career from a young age but instead chose to train and set up a company as a web developer before trying DJ-ing and even modelling until he founded Antico...
Hilton Worldwide has announced it is to open its first DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Liverpool after signing a franchise agreement with Municipal Annex Limited to open a hotel in the Grade II-listed former Municipal Annexe council buildings in the city...
Tonteria, a new Mexican-inspired cocktail bar and restaurant, is set to launch in Sloane Square this autumn from the team behind London nightclubs Mahiki and Whisky Mist.
Benugo, the deli cafe and public space restaurant operator, increased its turnover by 31 per cent during the first half of the year with owner Westbury Street Holdings (WSH) predicting to make £450m by the end of the year, a £44m rise on last year.
Enterprise Inns has reported continued 'improving trading trends' but has declared the poor summer weather has affected its publicans and has had a bigger effect than the Olympics which has not yet materially impacted pub performance.
Simply Fish, a new sustainable fish restaurant serving produce from Cornwall with Mediterranean, Asian and Middle Eastern influences, is set to launch in Camden with two further venues planned.
Following restaurateur Iqbal Wahhab's claim that Mooli's could be the next 'Indian Pret A Manger' and with a number of other premium sandwich operators looking to expand, Restaurant magazine's Joe Lutrario asks if it's the...
The top 100 restaurant chains saw turnover increase by 5.6 per cent last year, a big improvement on the 2.6 per cent increase of 2010. But the market isn't becoming any easier for smaller businesses as the beleaguered state of the UK economy is making...
InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has revealed it is planning to sell its world-famous InterContinental London Park Lane hotel as the group announces it will return $1bn to shareholders while the Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express brands are expected...
Coniston brewery’s No.9 Barley Wine has been named the Champion Beer of Britain 2012 by the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) on the first day of its annual Great British Beer Festival being held at London Olympia this week.
London-based bar group Be At One has unveiled plans to open its 13th cocktail bar in the heart of the capital, where it will showcase a new food offering in partnership with restaurateur Ossie Gray.
Marco Pierre White’s pub The Yew Tree in Highclere, near Newbury, has been sold to Cirrus Inns, the investment vehicle co-founded by Alex Langsland Pearse and former Gordon Ramsay Holdings executive chef Mark Askew.
Despite many hotels in London boasting increased occupancy rates during the London 2012 Olympics and some already claiming to see a positive legacy after the event, new figures on half-year hotel performance and hospitality insolvencies paint a very different...
The London 2012 Olympics may have reaffirmed Britain’s place at the toptable of world sport and sparked a wave of euphoria across the country, but for many of the capital's restaurants, the event has not yet proved to be so successful and business...
Compass Group UK and Ireland has decided to remove foie gras from menus following pressure from animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
The De Vere Group has returned to manage West Midlands golfing hotel The Belfry following the property's acquisition by US-based private equity firm KSL Capital Partners.
Soho pub The Endurance is to hand over its kitchens to emerging chefs each month in a bid to give them a taste of running their own restaurant without the financial outlay of setting one up themselves.
Tube journeys to stations in London's West End were up 27 per cent on Saturday (4 August) night according to the latest figures from Transport for London (TfL), but many restaurants still feel they are not benefiting from the trade boost promised...
