Jason Atherton’s Pollen Street Social has been named the best new UK restaurant by the Good Food Guide 2012 (GFG), entering its list of the UK’s Top 50 Restaurants at number eight.
Kitchen staff armed with rolling pins were forced to protect diners against rioters at two Michelin-starred restaurant The Ledbury last night, after looters threatened them with rocks and knives to hand over valuables.
Restaurants and pubs across the capital were among the businesses vandalised in the riots which have broken out across many parts of London over the past few days.
Plans have been submitted to transform Newcastle’s iconic Co-operative building into a 231-bedroom hotel complete with restaurants, retail outlets and gym.
Otarian, the US-based fast-casual vegetarian restaurant chain, has pulled out of the UK just a year after launching its first restaurant on Shaftesbury Avenue.
The owners of a group of historic hotels have purchased the 130-bedrooom Fishers Hotel in Scotland’s Pitlochry, which they plan to “give a new lease of life” to.
Italian pasta producer Giovanni Rana has announced plans to open its first UK restaurant at Regent's Place in London this autumn after signing a 15-year lease with estate manager British Land.
The owner of a group of London pubs and restaurants, including Clapham’s Four O Nine, has launched a luxury baked potato café in Covent Garden, with hopes to open further venues around London.
El Bulli, the most influential restaurant in the world, is to close tomorrow after more than two decades of pushing the boundaries of modern gastronomy.
Charitable training restaurant Hoxton Apprentice is appealing for help from the hospitality industry after vital funding it received from the Government was cut.
Scottish hospitality and leisure operator G1 Group has announced it is creating a new company that will enable it to broaden its coverage of the leisure market in Edinburgh.
Catering group Elior UK has opened a new brasserie in Greenwich, which it hopes will help plug the gap in the area for mid-class establishments serving high-quality food.
London-based Japanese restaurant chain Feng Sushi is to open its seventh site at Billingsgate this summer, and has revealed plans to operate a further five by the end of 2012.
A 30-bedroom hotel complex on the Isles of Scilly off the coast of Cornwall has been put up for leasehold sale by its owners who plan to exit the business on retirement.
Malmaison owner MWB has exchanged contracts to sell and leaseback four of its hotels which it says will enable it to reduce its debt levels without affecting the future operations of the group.
Pop-up restaurant and events management specialist Pure has gone into partnership with the Royal York hotel in Brighton to manage all its food and beverage (F&B) operations.
Little Bay restaurants, the London-based chain owned by Peter Ilic, is set to open its first venue outside the capital in Brighton today in partnership with Umi Hotels.
The second Iberica Food and Culture site is set to open in Canary Wharf later this year, and will include two kitchens, a take-away and delivery service and a wine custody service.
Russell and Juliette Joffe, the owners of high street family chain Giraffe, are to launch two new brand extensions – an adult-targeted cafe and a quick service train station concept.
Restaurant Martin Wishart in Edinbugh and Le Gavroche in London have been named the most popular French restaurants in the UK by 500,000 Toptable users.
Macdonald Hotels has revealed it has been in talks with a number of 'top chefs' to run partnership food operations at its 42 UK hotels after signing a deal with Aiden Byrne to open a restaurant at one of its Cheshire properties.
Restaurant group D&D has announced plans to redevelop an old spice warehouse in the City, which it will convert into two restaurants, bars and a wine shop.
The hotel group Park Plaza has acquired a site in West London, where it plans to construct a new hotel on a “major arterial route” into central London.
Busaba Eathai in Bicester and Smack in Leamington Spa are the headline winners of this year’s Restaurant and Bar Design Awards, announced last night in London.
Chef Alexis Gauthier has added calorie information to the menu at his London restaurant Gauthier Soho after feeling a 'moral obligation' to supply customers with nutritional information.
