The Grosvenor hotel in London’s Victoria has officially become the fifth member of the Guoman Hotels collection following an extensive interior and exterior refurbishment.
Assemblage, the restaurant set up by former The Restaurant contestant James Knight-Pacheco and art lover Alicia Whitby, has closed less than three months after opening at a site close to Spitalfields market.
Hotel management company Bespoke Hotels has taken over two hotels in Chipping Camden - the 22-bedroom Cotswold House Hotel and the 27-bedroom Noel Arms.
As foodservice consultancy Horizons insists the UK hospitality industry is set for its most challenging year ever, BigHospitality has spoken to restaurants across the nation to find out what they are doing to ensure 2012 is a year to remember for the...
Pub landlady Di Bradley received a surprise visit from TV presenter Noel Edmonds and chef Jean-Christophe Novelli after her daughter nominated her for a special Christmas present in recognition for her tireless work with her local community.
Restaurant and bar operator Living Ventures is planning to invest £8m in the opening of seven new sites next year as well as roll out a new pub concept called Oast House.
Restaurants and hotels, including Premier Inn, Park Plaza County Hall and The Gallery Mess at the Saatchi Gallery, tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they're running to attract more customers.
Tortilla, the fast-casual Mexican restaurant chain founded by Brandon Stephens, could open up to 25 sites both in and outside London in the next two years after receiving funding help from private equity firm Quilvest.
The owners of an Indian takeaway in Rochester have been forced by the High Court to pay damages of £50k to Jamal Ahmed, chef and owner of Shozna restaurant, after opening a rival takeaway one mile away with nearly identical name, logos, artwork, menus...
Antonin Bonnet, executive chef at Mayfair's French restaurant The Greenhouse, is to leave his position of six years to pursue other opportunities in 2012, the restaurant's owner MARC Restaurants announced today.
Some of hospitality's biggest names have talked to BigHospitality in 2011 about the key issues facing restaurants, hotels and pubs and bars. As the year draws to a close we took the chance to review the most listened pieces of audio gathered at leading...
As businesses braced themselves for ‘Mad Friday’, one of the busiest trading days of the year, a power cut left parts of London’s Soho without electricity for the majority of the day, forcing pubs, bars and restaurants to close.
Boutique hotel group Firmdale Hotels has secured funding for the next stage of an expansion of the chain which includes a new 92-bedroom hotel on the Ham Yard site near London's Piccadilly Circus.
Restaurants, hotels and pubs including Ciro's Brasserie, QHotels, Renaissance Pubs and Macdonald Hill Valley Hotel tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they're running to attract more customers.
Italian restaurant group Spaghetti House has bought two ex-Paramount Restaurants sites - Bertorelli on Argyle Street and Brasserie Gerard on Kensington High Street in London - out of administration.
An iPhone and Android app designed to increase hospitality trade for Belfast pubs in the run-up to Christmas and the New Year is being backed by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board and the professional body, Pubs in Ulster.
Two hotels have announced major development programmes, with the creation of luxury spas and additional bedrooms, in an effort to become two of the UK’s leading four-star properties.
Best Western, the UK’s largest group of independently-owned hotels, has recorded the most successful year to date in its 44-year history, with overall sales up 17 per cent and 21 hotels added to its portfolio.
Restaurants and bars in the UK should be prepared for an increase in mergers and acquisitions next year as successful chains look to cash in and buyers prepare for growth in 2013, according to a new report.
Thai restaurant The Blue Elephant has been forced to relocate from the site on Fulham’s Broadway that it has occupied for the past 25 years, to a new riverside site at Imperial Wharf, where it hopes to become the Thai version of the River Cafe.
Hotel Verta, the luxury London hotel formerly owned by Von Essen's Andrew Davis, has reportedly been bought by entertainment guru Simon Cowell's brother Nicholas and will be re-branded a Rhombus hotel.
Seasonal British food champion Mark Hix is to move away from his signature style at his latest venue - HIX Belgravia - to serve a menu with an international focus.
Bar and restaurant operator Novus Leisure has announced strong pre-Christmas sales, forecasting a record festive period driven by corporate parties and events.
Hotel Verta, the luxury Battersea hotel owned by former Von Essen managing director Andrew Davis, has been saved from administration, safeguarding the future of 75 jobs.
A new group led by industry veteran Peter Marks, who was formerly chief executive at Brook leisure and Sports Café, has completed the acquisition of nightclub operator Luminar out of administration in deal worth around £45m.
Marco Pierre White’s restaurant at The Swann Inn in Aughton, Lancashire, has been sold and will close for three months on 2 January, before re-opening as a Mitchells & Butlers pub.
Hotels across the UK are ramping up their tariffs over the New Year’s weekend, with Edinburgh hotels charging almost three times more for a one-night stay in a standard double room.
With plans for a significant increase in business rates as of April 2012, business rates specialists CVS is seeing an increasing demand for its services.
Seven hotels from the Von Essen Hotels portfolio have been sold to Halcyon Hotels and Resorts at a guide price of £40.5m in what is the largest package sale since the company fell into administration.
Restaurants, hotels and bars from across the UK, including Andaz Liverpool Street, Dukes London, Vista at The Trafalgar and Bentley’s Oyster& Grill, tell BigHospitality about special events and promotions they’re running to attract more customers.
Former Little Chef chief executive Ian Pegler has revealed his top tips for turning ailing businesses around after saving the roadside restaurant chain and his latest project, events venue Stoneleigh Park in Warwickshire, from failure.
Nelson Hotels, the family-owned, Cheshire-based hotel group has bought The Fishpool Inn in Delamere, with plans for a £1m refurbishment of the property to transform it into a gastropub.
On Monday it confirmed the sale of The Marylebone Bar in what is one of the biggest tied-lease deals of the year, and earlier in the year it quit running the White Horse pub in Harpenden. Now, pub and restaurant operator Urban & Country Leisure (UCL)...
Two childhood friends opened their first restaurant on a whim. Seventeen years on, Le Bistrot Pierre provides timely lessons in delivering value in the middle market.
Italian chain Ask is rolling out a new look and a more authentic food and drink offer across its 123-strong estate following a successful trial of the revamp in select locations.
Caprice Holdings chairman Richard Caring has revealed plans to bring Thomas Keller's Bouchon restaurant concept to the UK as well as considerably increase the number of Soho House branches in operation across the world.
Contract caterer Elior has partnered with Starwood to manage the food and beverage operations at the FEDE restaurant in the first UK-based Aloft hotel at London’s Excel.
Saffron Restaurant Group, which has two sites in the West Midlands and one in London, has opened an Indian fine dining restaurant in the heart of Birmingham’s city centre.
Ex-DJ and Apple executive Martin Morales has confirmed the location of his first Peruvian restaurant Ceviche which he plans to open in early March 2012.
Pub and restaurant operator Urban & Country Leisure (UCL) has today confirmed the sale of The Marylebone Bar in what is one of the biggest tied-lease deals of the year.
Peckforton Castle, the Cheshire hotel, wedding, conference and events venue, has reacted to the admission of guilt by groom Max Kay to starting the fire which caused £6m worth of damage in June this year.
Le Cafe Anglais chef-patron Rowley Leigh has partnered with cinema chain Odeon and UCI to provide an up-market menu to be served to movie-goers at its new boutique style cinema at Whiteleys.
