Chef Simon Rogan will next month open a restaurant in London, which will feature a menu similar to that of his award winning site in Cumbria, L’Enclume.
A new café bar concept, Vertigo Lounge, is to open in Hornchurch to target over 25 year-olds looking for a more ‘sophisticated’ social venue in the suburban northeast London town.
Peach Pubs has taken on its 14th venue, the former Jean-Christophe Novelli pub The White Horse in Harpenden, following the departure of its most recent owners Urban & Country earlier this year.
José Pizarro, who co-founded Brindisa Tapas Kitchen, is planning to open his own tapas venue near London’s Borough market, which aims to become a neighbourhood restaurant.
London’s first Hampton by Hilton is to open near Waterloo station, after Shiva Hotels acquired the adjacent Partnership House site for an undisclosed sum.
Scottish Michelin-starred chef Martin Wishart is to open an informal brasserie in Edinburgh this summer, and plans to roll the concept out if successful.
Celebrity chef Brian Turner is to open his first restaurant in three years at Butlins in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, the first of three collaborative hotel restaurants planned for the group.
Jason Atherton is hoping to reignite the UK’s desire for desserts when he opens his much-anticipated debut solo venture Pollen Street Social in Mayfair this month.
Tom and Ed Martin, owners of the eight-strong ETM Group, are to open two new pubs this summer on the site of Montcalm Hotels’ new five star property in the City.
Michelin-starred chef Tom Aikens has secured investment from a Turkish restaurant group, which will help expand the Tom’s Kitchen restaurant brand in the UK.
Rasmus Kofoed, the Danish winner of the 2011 Bocuse d’Or and chef proprietor of Geranium in Copenhagen, has defied the odds and won a bronze, silver and now gold trophy in what is known as the Oscars of the culinary world.
Turtle Bay, the Caribbean restaurant concept founded by former Las Iguanas director Ajith Jaya-Wickrema, is set to expand to five sites by the end of the year.
The international family-owned hotel brand Corinthia will next month open its first UK site in a historic building that was last used as a hotel before World War II.
Holiday Inn Express is taking on a new hotel in Liverpool, with refurbishment now underway on a 56-bedroom historic hotel near the Royal Liverpool Golf Club.
The restaurant chain Giraffe and the patisserie-café Apostrophe both opened new sites in Gatwick Airport this week as part of the airport’s strategy to attract travellers to a modernized food and drink offering.
Ryan Murphy, the head chef at The Savoy Hotel’s River Restaurant, is to leave his position at the end of April for a position in the countryside, in a bid to attain a Michelin star.
The owners of Mayfair’s Michelin-starred Tamarind restaurant are to open a second venue in California’s Newport Beach this summer, named Tamarind of London.
The Thai restaurant Mango Tree will be opening a fast food-style branch in the food hall of Harrods department store in London, BigHospitality can reveal.
Pizza Express is set to roll out the pioneering features from its Living Lab site in Richmond to the rest of its estate, starting with six “New Generation” restaurants penned to launch in the next two months.
Soho House Group, the bar, restaurant and private members club company owned by Richard Caring and headed by Nick Jones, has acquired a second site in London for its pizzeria concept, Pizza East.
Celebrity chef Martin Blunos is to oversee the new restaurant at The Parc by Thistle in Cardiff, following a new partnership between the hotel and South Wales-based Crown Hotels and Restaurants.
A project to redevelop the area around London’s Victoria Station will force a number of hospitality venues to close down as land is claimed for new developments.
Silvena Rowe’s modern, Eastern Mediterranean restaurant Quince is to open at the May Fair Hotel in April, replacing the hotel’s existing dining offer Amba.
The first of 50 planned Australian coffee houses has opened in Liverpool, as part of a £12.5m investment by Green Cauldron Coffee to break into the UK market.
David Page, the restaurant industry veteran and former chief executive of Pizza Express, has teamed up with Giuseppe Mascoli, the Italian chef behind the fledgling Franco Manca pizza chain.
Alyn Williams, who has made his name holding top chef positions with Marcus Wareing and Gordon Ramsay, will now be branching off on his own in a new restaurant in London’s Westbury Hotel.
An Indian couple have opened their first Samosa café in Reading, with the aim of bringing ‘authentic’ Indian street food to UK consumers throughout the day.
The Playboy Club, which left London’s Park Lane in 1981, is to return to Mayfair this summer with Iron Chef and Market Kitchen regular Judy Joo executive head chef.
