Healthy eating chain Tossed will be opening its eighth London site in September this year, while further expansion remains held back by a lack of suitable sites, says the chain’s owner, Vincent McKevitt.
Cyrus Todiwala OBE, chef proprietor of Café Spice Namaste in London, has been given the Special Achievement Award at the annual Footprint Awards for championing environmentally-friendly and sustainable operating practices.
Dorsia, a new restaurant, bar and private members’ club, will be opening its doors in South Kensington next month, following the £2.4m refit of a Georgian town house.
Managed pub operator Barracuda has reduced the number of its student-led Varsity bars by 12 to 27 sites across the UK as it focuses on upgrading the estate.
Fluid Movement, the team behind Purl and The Whistling Shop, have launched VOC, a Punch House in King’s Cross, London inspired by the 17th Century Dutch East India Company.
Asian investors have released plans for a luxury hotel and private residences at London’s iconic 10 Trinity Square building, next to the Tower of London.
Mark Sargeant has revealed plans to roll out his new fish and chip concept The Smokehouse across Kent and Sussex coastal towns once his inaugural site in Folkestone launches next month.
Serial investor Luke Johnson has acquired an undisclosed share of The Bread Factory owner Bread Ltd, and plans to expand the group’s London-based bakery and café concept Gail’s by five sites this year.
Jamie Oliver’s Italian restaurant chain has come under fire after a series of hygiene failings and suspected food poisoning cases were uncovered by food safety inspectors.
Mexican fast-casual restaurant chain Wahaca is to open its fifth restaurant at London’s newest shopping centre Westfield Stratford, which is due to launch in September this year.
Cyrus Todiwala OBE, chef owner of Café Spice Namaste in London, is to open a new restaurant at Hilton’s latest luxury hotel opening at Heathrow Terminal 5 in August.
Melbourne-based café/restaurant group St. Ali has launched its first UK site in Clerkenwell with plans to roll the brand out alongside a smaller coffee shop concept.
Contract catering giant Elior has launched a new wine bar underneath Lloyd’s of London in the City, featuring a wine list compiled by the World’s Best Sommelier 2010 Gerard Basset.
Hunstrete House near Bath has gone into creditors voluntary liquidation after the administrators of Von Essen Hotels terminated the licensing agreement with its operator.
Hush owner Jamie Barber has sold his two-strong Villandry restaurant business to the former managing director of Le Pain Quotidien Philippe Le Roux, who now plans to expand the concept.
Last October Mark Jankel and Jun Tanaka took to the streets of London in an Airstream van to serve fresh, British food inspired by Jankel’s project The Food Initiative over the course of two weeks. Street Kitchen was run as part of the London Restaurant...
Legacy Hotels and Resorts has taken over the management contract of Great Hallingbury Manor Hotel in Bishop’s Stortford, and is to prepare the business for sale over the coming months.
Von Essen Hotels Ltd, the holding company of the 28-strong luxury hotel group, has gone into administration after failing to meet its debt repayment schedule.
The restaurateur behind two of East London’s most successful Vietnamese restaurants – Viet Grill and Cây Tre, both in Shoreditch – is to open a flagship site in Soho next month.
Michelin starred Indian chef Sriram Aylur will open a pop-up restaurant this summer at the Surrey County Cricket Club, combining fine fining with international cricket.
After much anticipation former Gordon Ramsay protégé Mark Sargeant has announced he is to open two new restaurants in Folkestone, Kent this summer: Rocksalt, a seafood restaurant and bar, and The Smokehouse, a fish and chip shop.
The 50-strong Russian restaurant operator Novikov Restaurant Group will be launching its first site outside of Russia with the opening of a new venue in London’s Mayfair.
Pub operator Barracuda Group is to open the 150th pub in its Smith & Jones portfolio later this month, following the conversion of some of its other pubs into the new brand format.
The Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle is preparing to open an Asian restaurant, which will apply the same concept of quality fast food to a different cuisine.
The 11th Earl of Sandwich, descendant of the inventor of the popular quick food concept, is launching his eponymous sandwich bar in the UK, with plans to turn it into a high-street chain.
Adam Fellows, chef/proprietor of Goodfellows restaurant in Wells, Somerset, launched Glastonbury’s first ever fine dining pop-up restaurant in 2007. He explains how his experience hasn’t put him off running a business in a muddy field just yet.
Hotel du Vin is set to open the second site in its new concept, Bistro du Vin, by June this year, with plans for a further two sites shortly afterwards.
Byron, the rapidly-expanding hamburger chain, is to open a flagship restaurant at Haymarket in London next week, ahead of two further openings this autumn.
The five-star Corinthia hotel in London will open its doors later this month, despite concerns that it would face sanctions as it is heavily backed by Libyan investment.
