Karen Forrester, the UK managing director of American restaurant chain T.G.I. Friday's, has revealed the business has plans to open at least 20 new venues in the next three years as the brand reinvigoration continues.
Le Bouchon Breton restaurant in Spitalfields Market has ceased trading blaming rain and the recession on the closure just months after declaring a rebranding and cheaper menu had helped business 'explode'.
The UK’s appetite for steak seems to be showing no signs of abating, with a proliferation of meat-focused restaurants opening across the capital and beyond in the coming months.
A leading voice on Chinese food, Fuchsia Dunlop trained at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine in Chengdu. The author of several cookbooks, she has been researching regional Chinese food for more than a decade and consults at three restaurants in...
A Treasury minister has pledged the Government will continue to monitor the impact of the alcohol duty escalator but claimed the rising beer duty was a 'help' to publicans and drinkers as it was contributing to deficit reduction.
British restaurant chain Bumpkin, which currently has three sites in London, has plans to expand to 20 venues across the UK within the next five years.
The Hilton Garden Inn in Aberdeen has ranked as the fourth best hotel in the world on the Expedia Insiders’ Select list, a list of the top-reviewed hotels by travellers using the bookings website.
The Home Office has published its response to a consultation on the proposed Late Night Levy with legislation expected later this year which will not exempt restaurants and which pub and bar licensees have declared 'unnecessary'.
Manchester-based restaurant, bar and pub group Living Ventures will launch a number of its newest brands in London, according to the company's co-founder Tim Bacon.
Budget hotel chain Travelodge claims it will now hit its target to be the largest operator in London ahead of the Olympics, with the opening of four properties in the capital, and a further three around the country.
The New Moon Pub Company, founded by acclaimed North West chef David Mooney and former Living Ventures director Paul Newman, has announced details of its second pub and restaurant in Cheshire.
Fluid Movement, the team behind London bars Purl and Worship Street Whistling Shop, will open their third venue - Dach & Sons, a 70-cover speakeasy bar and restaurant - in Hampstead next week.
With less than a month to go until the London 2012 Olympics kick off, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson has called on the capital’s business leaders to finalise their travel plans, urging them not to chance it by adopting a ‘wait and see’ approach.
Wear Inns, the Northern community pub operator, has announced it has completed the acquisition of nine pubs in the North East and Yorkshire from TCG as a result of private investment backing secured earlier this year.
Train bookings website thetrainline.com has documented the price of lunch at Michelin-starred restaurants across the UK to show rail passengers that eating in well-rated restaurants may not be as expensive as they may think.
Tuttons restaurant in the heart of London’s Covent Garden Piazza has re-opened its doors after a four-month, multi-million-pound refurbishment project.
Does your hotel, restaurant or pub boast a large number of employees for whom English is their second language and who can communicate with guests from different countries in their mother –tongue yet also converse perfectly with other guest and employees...
Ahead of the ninth series of her Channel 5 TV show The Hotel Inspector, hotelier Alex Polizzi has said hotel owners at venues she visits are continuing to make the same mistakes around cleanliness and service.
Amsterdam-based budget hotel group CitizenM is to open its first London hotel in Bankside next month ahead of significant expansion plans in the capital with at least two more venues on the horizon.
London-based restaurant operator Hawksmoor is to open its fourth site in the capital in October with more of a focus on grilled seafood as well as steak.
Italian casual dining chain Prezzo and mass pub operator JD Wetherspoon are helping drive estimated growth in the branded restaurant sector in 2012 of 6.5 per cent.
Asian food may already be a huge part of the UK restaurant scene, but the world’s largest continent has a lot more to offer. Restaurant magazine's Joe Lutrario looks at the rise in Asian food in the UK and at how some of the less familiar cuisines...
Former Petersham Nurseries head chef Skye Gyngell has been announced as culinary director at Heckfield Place hotel, the former hotel and conference centre in Hampshire which will re-open as a country house hotel in March 2013.
London’s hotels have been given a lower customer service score than the capital’s tourist attractions, shops, pubs and restaurants by a sample of overseas visitors who came to the city earlier this year.
As Koh Thai Tapas prepares to open its third restaurant in the South East, a number of other new tapas-style concepts are springing up around the country, with sharing dishes and a more informal dining approach beginning to be applied to a variety of...
Jamie Oliver's Gatwick Airport restaurant, which has just opened within the North Terminal, is set to become the busiest venue in the celebrity chef's portfolio as the team reveal the challenges in opening an airside restaurant.
Sixty-nine British hospitality businesses, ranging from hotels, pubs, restaurants, contract caterers and industry bodies, have today signed up to a new, voluntary agreement which aims to cut food waste by 5 per cent and the associated CO2 emissions by...
The eight chefs through to the final of the 2012 National Chef of the Year (NCOTY) competition have been revealed with last year's runner up and third placed chef back in the running for the accolade which will be awarded at The Restaurant Show in...
With a number of UK mid-market hotel groups now sporting a for-sale notice, the sector is set to experience further consolidation in the three and four-star properties as lenders seek to move into the next stage of action regarding over-geared groups.
Hotel du Vin co-founder Robin Hutson has revealed he is close to exchanging contracts on a hotel in the South which will become the third venue under The Pig brand as expansion plans continue in a climate he says is 'right' for independents.
Jimmy’s World Grill & Bar is planning to more than double its current estate in the next 18 months and expects to employ 1,000 members of staff to run them by 2014, it claimed today.
Chef Bruno Loubet and his business partners Mark Sainsbury and Michael Benyan have confirmed plans to open a second restaurant in London in January 2013.
North West-based chef, hotelier and contract caterer Paul Rowley has won a three-year contract to run a restaurant and provide catering at the new Blackpool Football Club (FC) hotel when it opens its doors next month.
Chris Phillips, a former head of the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaTSCO) and a consultant at Wilkinson Construction Consultants outlines how hotels and other hospitality businesses can protect themselves from a terrorist attack.
Red Hot World Buffet will relocate its Nottingham restaurant to a larger site later this year following the opening of a second floor at its Manchester restaurant this week.
Hotel groups are hiring and firing their chief executives at double the rate of 2009, with 12 per cent of companies now being led by someone new, according to a survey by HVS Executive Search.
Giraffe, the fast casual restaurant chain chaired by Luke Johnson and backed by Risk Capital Partners and 3i, has reported a 17 per cent rise in profits in the last financial year and has revealed it has the funds to continue expansion plans in the UK...
Sleeperz Hotels, the budget hotel chain, has won a leading prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for its Newcastle venue - the second architectural award the business has won in three years.
The King Edward VII, a traditional pub in the heart of Stratford, East London, has been acquired by Rocky Raj Group, with plans to convert part of the property into a British restaurant and wine bar.
The team behind the Callooh Callay cocktail bar have revealed details of Beard to Tail, a new restaurant focused on nose-to-tail cookery, which is due to launch in September after a successful pop-up earlier this month.
The relationship between restaurateurs and landlords could be set to change forever, with an emerging trend of rival operators working together to obtain a large site, take it over and provide a range of different offerings.
Businessman Cosmo Fry has put all three hotels under The Big Sleep Hotel brand up for sale 13 years after he formed the business and nearly five years since the ITV reality TV show Risky Business followed Fry as he opened the Cheltenham hotel.
Daniel Marshall of the Imperial hotel in Great Yarmouth and Arnaud Bardary of The Maze in London have been named as the UK winners of the 2012 Chaîne des Rôtisseurs’ Young Chef and Young Sommelier of the Year competitions.
Global hotel chain Accor has today launched its first UK training academy in Hammersmith as part of plans to invest £5m in employee training, creating 3,500 jobs in the country in the next three years and taking on young unemployed people in London.
A fine dining restaurant with a menu designed by Frank Bordoni is to be launched within the National Football Museum when the museum opens in Manchester's landmark Urbis building next month.
The British Hospitality Association has said a new strategy is needed to realise the job and wealth-creating potential of the UK hotel industry as the Government continues to talk up but not listen to the sector.
Restaurant and pub groups across the UK saw a welcome 2.6 per cent increase in collective like-for-like sales in May, with total sales up 6.5 per cent on the same month last year.
