The co-founder of the Spanish fashion empire that owns Zara is in final-stage talks to invest £350m in a “super-luxury” London hotel bearing the Bulgari name.
The owners of the Spanish restaurant Jamon Jamon, located in London’s Camden, have purchased a new site in central London, where they plan to open a second branch next month.
Brighton restaurant The Chilli Pickle has taken over the restaurant space at myhotel in the city, after Company of Cooks mutually ended its contract with the group in October last year.
The pub and restaurant operator Urban & Country Leisure is scrapping plans to invest in country pubs this year, and will instead pump its funds into expanding its successful Lazy Cow boutique hotel and restaurant brand.
The owners of the London development that is home to the W Hotel London-Leicester Square, are planning to sell the property just weeks before its opening on 14 February.
Property group Heron International has secured planning permission for a £500m central London residential and retail development, which will house the fourth Four Seasons Hotel in the UK.
Two new hotels – a Holiday Inn and a Staybridge Suites – are to be built at Westfield Stratford City to cater for the Olympic traffic expected next year.
The owners of a converted Victorian bathhouse near London’s Liverpool Street are preparing to take their decadent dining and entertainment concept to a smaller site on Stoke Newington’s Church Street.
Angela Hartnett has teamed up with a new catering firm to create the dishes for the dining room, café and bar at the recently refurbished Whitechapel Gallery.
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has given the green light to a new attempt to regenerate the capital’s Battersea Power Station, this time into a £5.5bn mixed-use development with homes, office space, hotels and restaurants.
Gordon Ramsay Holdings has regained sole control of Mayfair restaurant Petrus, after former chief executive Chris Hutcheson took it with him when he left the company in October.
Three Michelin-starred chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten will be bringing his East Asian-inspired restaurant concept to the UK, where he plans to open Spice Market London in the new W Hotel early next year.
Brasserie Blanc, the casual restaurant chain founded by Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc, is to open its latest outlet at the Mann Island development on Liverpool’s waterfront.
The winner of the Tilda Chef of the Year Dean Heselden is to open a new Brighton restaurant on Sunday, which he hopes will offer an alternative to branded eateries in the area.
Britain’s Got Talent host Piers Morgan has bought the leasehold interest in his local pub, The Hansom Cab, in Kensington, and has employed former La Trompette chef Ollie Couillard.
London’s Hoxton Hotel, which is exploring a potential sale, could attract interest from international investors keen to benefit from a week pound and strong tourism prospects, according to property agents Knight Frank.
Living Ventures will this week launch new cocktail bar and restaurant The Alchemist at Manchester's Spinningfields business district, after a £500k investment.
Further closures are likely in the pub sector as we have only “hit the tip of the iceberg”, according to Christie & Co head of pubs and restaurants Neil Morgan, talking at the SIBA Conference.
Young Spanish chef Omar Allibhoy will next week launch a tapas bar in London’s Westfield shopping centre, which he plans to be the first in a series of venues to open throughout the UK
American chef Wolfgang Puck has announced plans to open a London outpost of his popular CUT steak restaurant concept at the Dorchester Collection’s newest hotel, 45 Park Lane in Mayfair
Starwood Capital’s Louvre Hotels has dropped plans to sell its UK budget Campanile and Première Classe hotels, and has instead set up a strategy to grow the brands
Claude Bosi, chef patron at two-Michelin star Mayfair restaurant Hibiscus, is to take on a pub-with-rooms with brother Cedric, BigHospitality can reveal.
Marriott International has purchased the historic Berners Hotel in London, which it plans to redevelop over the next two years into a boutique Edition brand hotel
A pair of Raymond Blanc’s protégés have acquired the lease on a pub and grill venue in Leamington Spa, which they plan to rejuvenate with a “new cuisine flair” at affordable prices
The Belgium-inspired waffle specialist Wafflemeister will be opening its third store in London next week, with plans to double its UK sites early next year
