Crab Quay House, a new restaurant, bar and deli concept, is set to launch in the heart of Brixham Fish Market next month, serving local produce cooked in a modern British and European style.
Catering equipment supplier Nisbets has introduced the Taurus Mycook heated blender to the UK market; it combines a number of kitchen processes saving time and use of extra utensils.
At the first ever British Hospitality Association (BHA) Summit earlier this month there was widespread discussion on what the industry and the Government should be doing to boost the hospitality sector - but what do the experts think?
Hilton Hotels & Resorts has revealed final details of its 361-bedroom London Wembley Hotel next to Wembley Stadium which it is preparing to open next month.
As the England team prepares for its final Group D match of Euro 2012, Orchid has revealed the tournament has driven a massive sales boost across its pub estate with a number of venues scoring more than 300 per cent like-for-like growth.
The Hippodrome Casino – the UK’s first ‘international style’ casino – is set to open in London’s Leicester Square next month, featuring five bars and four dining rooms spread over three floors of the property.
Premier Inn, Costa Coffee and Beefeater operator Whitbread has reported a rise in like-for-like sales in the 13 weeks to 31 May driven by its coffee shop and hotel business but said a 'sharper focus' on restaurants was yielding results.
After starting work at the restaurant within The Sportsman casino in London's West End as a kitchen hand, Mahmud Zaman is this week planning to re-open the restaurant under his own name.
Christie & Co has said hospitality businesses are learning to deal with 'new normal' trading conditions in a report which also says a further 2,500 pubs need to close to make the sector competitive and predicts there is hope for restaurants...
While Gondola Group topped this year's R200 list of the 200 largest restaurant and food-led pub operators in the UK, those appearing in the second half of the list are attracting just as much attention as the larger players.
Firmdale Hotels co-founders Tim and Kit Kemp are among the hospitality figures recognised in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours List, while it has been announced separately that restaurateur and Great British Menu judge Oliver Peyton is...
Marriott has been named the World’s Best Hotel Chain in terms of online brand performance, followed by Best Western and Hyatt, according to a new research report.
The British Beer and Pub Association has called on Sky and BT to ensure they do not pass on the cost of live TV rights to screening Premier League matches to business customers including pubs and bars.
Geronimo Inns, the 33-strong fresh food pub group founded by Rupert and Jo Clevely, has this month launched The Calf – the groups’ first pop-up dining and drinking venue, situated in Westfield Stratford shopping centre, a stone’s throw from the Olympic...
Wagamama is set to open its largest UK restaurant in Leamington Spa on 23 June, featuring the noodle chain’s new sushi menu and housing a brand new bar concept.
In the fifth and final part our hospitable cities feature we head to Brighton on the south coast to explore the hospitality market in this cosmopolitan seaside city.
Nando’s, the fast-casual Portuguese chicken restaurant chain, has topped the eating-out popularity stakes, with more people choosing to eat at one of its sites than at any other major restaurant or pub brand.
In the fourth part of our UK hospitable cities feature, BigHospitality is turning attention to the only capital city on our list. Cardiff is a major European capital but does the Welsh city have a capital hospitality offering and what is driving growth...
Cyrus Todiwala from Café Spice Namaste and Jason Atherton's one Michelin-starred restaurant Pollen Street Social were among the winners at the Craft Guild of Chefs Awards 2012 at Wembley Stadium last night.
Bubbleology, the first company to specialise in selling Taiwanese bubble tea in the UK, has announced plans to open a second cafe in London, just over a year after opening its first.
Morgans Hotel Group, the New York-based hospitality management company with boutique hotels across the US and in London, has today announced that it has signed a 20-year management agreement for a 200-room boutique property in the capital.
The third part of our hospitable cities feature sees BigHospitality head 80 miles south of Manchester to the thriving city of Birmingham. We take a look at all the facts and figures and explore some of the hospitality businesses which have helped the...
German-based budget hotel chain Motel One has revealed details of its future expansion plans in the UK with a second venue in Edinburgh and sites in London and Newcastle in the pipeline after the first hotel in the country opens later this year.
The Hilton Brighton Metropole hotel has relaunched its bar and terrace with a new menu and cocktails after a renovation project which reflects the heritage of the beachfront venue.
Michelin-starred Murano chef Angela Hartnett is to launch a new restaurant at Robin Hutson's New Forest Lime Wood Hotel which will feature a menu of 'Italian-influenced forest dishes'.
The restaurateur pair behind the Felicini chain of Italian eateries in the North have launched a new restaurant concept in Sheffield, Mud Crab Diner, which they claim serves the 'perfect' burger.
D&D London's 22nd London venue - a grill, fish restaurant, cocktail bar and wine shop set in a former trading warehouse - will open its doors in the city this September the restaurant group confirmed today.
In the second part of our hospitable cities feature, BigHospitality is moving south of the border from Glasgow to focus on another thriving city for hospitality businesses outside of London - Manchester. What makes its restaurants, hotels and pubs and...
The number of Brits who plan to spend their summer holidays on home soil has risen 6 per cent this year with the continuing staycation trend set to raise an extra £1.5bn for the industry.
French restaurant Roussillon has ceased trading after almost 14 years in London's Pimlico, citing the current economic climate as the reason for its closure.
Brindisa, the Spanish wholesale food supplier founded by Monika Linton in 1988, is set to open a fourth restaurant in London under its Brindisa Tapas Kitchens brand.
Restaurateurs are being encouraged to join an Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) campaign supported by a number of chefs including Anna Hansen and Michelin-starred Marcus Wareing and Andrew Fairlie which is designed to help end illegal or 'pirate'...
In the first part of our hospitable cities feature, our spotlight on thriving cities outside London, we take a look at Glasgow to examine its hospitality offering.
Charlie Hird, the 12-year-old son of restaurateur and Tavistock Leisure managing director Mark Hird, has won a radio station’s Junior Entrepreneur of the Year award for setting up a business which supplies his father’s restaurant with meat.
Restaurateur and Great British Menu judge Oliver Peyton has announced his business, Peyton and Byrne, is to open a second restaurant at the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London; a restaurant Peyton says will 'push the boundaries' of dining.
Cambridge City Council is set to become the latest local authority to consult on introducing planning laws to protect local pubs and save them from becoming victim to changes of use after a report on pub closures in the city is discussed by councillors...
Peel Hotels has reported a drop in revenues from its nine hotels resulting in a significant fall in profits of 54 per cent which the London-based company has attributed to the VAT rise and the economic climate.
South Place Hotel, the first hotel from D&D London, is to officially launch at the beginning of September and is described as a hotel 'created by restaurateurs' with previews of the F&B offering planned in time for the Olympics.
The majority of pubs, restaurants and hotels across the UK experienced a welcomed boost in trade over the course of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee bank holiday weekend with businesses located close to organised events, or holding their own, benefiting the...
Carluccio's and Corney & Barrow have been confirmed as the first food and beverage operators to become future tenants at London Waterloo train station when a £10m project to build a new balcony there is completed.
Amber Taverns, the North West based pub operator which specialises in community pubs, has reported a rise in like-for-like sales across its estate claiming the rise shows wet-led pubs can be good businesses for hospitality operators.
The first British Hospitality Association (BHA) Hospitality & Tourism Summit has been held with the gathered audience of industry experts encouraged to lobby and work with Government instead of simply complaining about issues such as tourist visas...
Wagamama is to present a major challenge to Yo! Sushi’s status as the UK’s only national branded sushi operator after deciding to serve sushi in all its restaurants.
The majority of chefs do not know which breed of chicken is on their menu or the provenance of the meat despite its continued popularity over pork or beef, according to a number of industry experts, including Mark Hix and the Sustainable Restaurant Association...
Welsh chef Adam Gaunt-Evans has returned to his homeland after years working in kitchens across the globe to open a restaurant that champions Welsh seasonal produce.
Michelin-starred Edinburgh chef Tom Kitchin has told BigHospitality he views the unofficial role he has taken on as an ambassador for Scottish food and the restaurant industry in Scotland as increasingly important as he begins to branch out a little from...
