The Dorchester has appointed John Scanlon as hotel manager and has announced he will take up his position at the Park Lane venue in March after working as director of revenue for parent company Dorchester Collection since 2008.
Trinity chef-owner Adam Byatt is to open his second restaurant in Clapham this week with former St John Bread and Wine chef Karl Goward heading up the kitchen.
Nick Clegg's vision of a 'John Lewis economy' has caused much discussion of employee ownership in the wider media. It stands to reason that those with a stake in the business will put more in, and in the hospitality sector, where a venue...
ChennaiDosa, a successful South Indian restaurant chain with 10 sites across the UK, is set to open a new site in Manchester's Stretford Mall with at least two further openings planned for this year.
SBG Restaurants is to revamp and rename the two Livebait restaurants it bought out of administration as well as targeting Glasgow and London for expansion.
Radisson Edwardian hotels, owned by Indian-born multi-millionaire Jasminder Singh, is continuing on the acquisition trail with the purchase of Odeon cinema in Leicester Square.
Giraffe, Yalla Yalla, Benito's Hat and the pub operator Fuller's have been revealed as some of the food and drink businesses that are on track to take up residence at the new King's Cross concourse when the 27,000sq.ft retail, restaurant...
Mark Hix talks about his new restaurant in Belgravia and why he decided to venture outside of his Clerkenwell and Soho stomping ground for his latest venture in the February issue of Restaurant magazine, out today.
In January the announcement the London 2012 organising committee (LOCOG) was releasing rooms sparked fears hotels might not be as full as hoped, so a week later BigHospitality spoke to those in the industry to see if hotels were reassessing expectations...
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) is urging the Government to allow hotel operations to qualify under the Enterprise Investment Scheme, following the Chancellor’s failure to remove the restriction in the autumn statement.
Restaurant 23 in Royal Leamington Spa is opening for a soft launch later this month following its relocation to a new site including a new cocktail lounge bar.
Chef James Martin is to open a restaurant in collaboration with the Talbot Hotel in Malton, North Yorkshire when it re-opens in April following a £3.5m refurbishment.
Former Savoy and Churchill chef David Croft has written Food for Thought – part autobiography, part cookbook – to educate the hospitality industry on the best ways to accommodate for disabled customers in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics and beyond.
Pubs planning to show the 2012 Olympics or European football championships on TV in their venue over the summer have been warned most sports fans intend to vist the pub less and publicans need to bear in mind the size of their screen and drinks prices...
Event caterer Amadeus has won a three year rolling contract to be the sole provider of catering for weddings and events at the Grade I Listed Stoneleigh Abbey in Warwickshire.
Hotel La Tour, the £24 million flagship development in a new chain of UK city centre hotels, is set to open its doors next month on the doorstep of the Bullring development in Birmingham city centre.
The role restaurants, pubs and bars can play in the rejuvenation of the High Street in the UK needs to be increased if the 'Portas Pilots' scheme for towns, as a result of the Mary Portas review, are to be a success, according to hospitality...
With the fifth annual National Apprenticeship Week kicking off today, businesses from across the UK have told BigHospitality what they’re doing to take on more apprentices and increase the number of vocational opportunities in the industry.
Italian café chain Carluccio's has acquired four former Paramount Restaurants sites, while La Tasca has confirmed it has taken on two from the company administrators and Byron has also acquired a Waterloo site that was previously part of the estate.
Premier Inn, the UK’s largest hotel chain owned by Whitbread, has secured planning permission for a new £10 million, 175-bedroom property in Bristol’s city centre.
Cocoa grower and chocolatier Hotel Chocolat has opened Roast + Conch, a casual café concept serving cocoa-based food and drink, in London's Seven Dials district of Covent Garden with plans for a fine dining restaurant in the UK to follow.
The number of hospitality businesses falling into administration increased by 19.3 per cent in 2011, indicating that the sector was one of the worst hit by the economic crisis.
Restaurants, pubs and hotels, including Macdonald Burlington, Pollen Street Social, Barracuda and Best Western tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they're running to attract more customers.
Fuller’s, the brewer and pub operator, has announced they are to acquire 15 freehold, tied and tenanted pubs from the pubco Enterprise Inns in a deal costing the London-based company £22.9m.
Jamie Oliver has acquired a site in Winchester for the first Union Jacks restaurant outside London it has been confirmed, while the successful Italian casual dining concept Jamie’s Italian will see five more openings before Autumn amid plans for a further...
Richard Muir has worked in the industry for the past 30 years, starting out as a chef before moving into corporate catering. He was managing director of Sodexo’s UK corporate business and opened restaurants for Gary Rhodes before buying and redeveloping...
Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG) has revealed ambitions to establish it's managed estate Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza brands as market leaders in the meetings industry after 14 sites secured accreditation from the Meetings Industry Association...
Hotels in London are being warned that they could be putting the lives of guests with hearing loss at risk by not having appropriate procedures in place for emergency situations.
Cliveden House Hotel, the former Von Essen property in Buckinghamshire, has been sold to the billionaire property developer brothers Ian and Richard Livingston.
Hoteliers Ian and Christa Taylor have announced plans to invest £1.5m in the hotel they have just bought – the Abbey in Bath – to transform it into an ‘affordable mid-market boutique hotel’ which they say would help strengthen the city’s tourist offer.
Six months on from the August riots, BigHospitality has spoken to Jan Topcu who, with fellow graduate and business partner Fabio Teixeira, was able to transform a derelict bank into a thriving restaurant in the heart of Tottenham.
With multi-cuisine, buffet-style outfits continuing to gather pace in the UK, Za Za Bazaar – the big-hitting newcomer which holds claim to the largest restaurant in the country– is set to open its second site, with fellow restaurateurs beginning to take...
Chef Richard Phillips has closed his restaurant at Chapel Down Vineyard in Kent after the local council restricted the number of weddings it could hold.
Macdonald hotels & Resorts, the UK’s largest privately owned hotel operator, has added the historic 48-bedroom Haycock Hotel in Wansford near Peterborough to its portfolio.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) has released around 20 per cent of the hotel reservations it had made for the Games, meaning more than 120,000 hotel room nights in the capital will now be vacant during...
Love is in the air this week as hotels and restaurants, including May Fair, Blakes, One-O-One and The Royal Horseguards, tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they’re running to attract more customers this Valentine’s Day.
Masterchef's Gregg Wallace is to open a 1970s themed restaurant in the Bespoke Hotels venue, the Bermondsey Square Hotel, close to the area where the TV host and former greengrocer grew up.
The winners of the 2012 Business Travel Awards have been announced with Whitbread's budget hotel brand Premier Inn and hotel chain Jurys Inn both taking away prizes.
Vegan restaurant group Saf is trialling an ‘express’ concept at London department store Harvey Nichols with plans to roll out the idea to more sites in the future if it proves a success.
Scottish golfing resort Turnberry has started to target the family market to help boost business during golf’s low season as corporate trade remains stagnant.
Good weather around Christmas 2011 helped keep Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) festive sales buoyant, the managed pub operator has reported, with like-for-like sales up 6.5 per cent for the nine weeks to 21 January.