Carluccio’s, the all-day Italian café, is expected to hit the 50-site threshold in the UK later this year, after putting the finishing touches on four new sites in little more than a month
Prezzo, the Italian restaurant chain, has agreed a £3.1m deal to acquire 11 sites from owners of the Chez Gerard brand, Paramount Restaurants, along with the rights to the Caffe Uno brand
American restaurant chain Hooters, known for its female waitresses, has received permission to open a site in Cardiff and has filed applications to open sites in both Brighton and Bristol
The Cricklade Hotel & Country Club in Wiltshire has been sold to Ambienza Hotels, operator of the Cotswolds88hotel in Gloucestershire, for an undisclosed sum
Pearl chef Jun Tanaka and Mark Jankel, chef and founder of The Food Initiative, will launch a mobile Street Kitchen as part of the London Food Festival this October
The group behind Ottolenghi, the upmarket vegetarian deli shop-meets-café concept, has acquired the Club Bar & Dining venue in London’s Soho from Simon Jordan, the former owner of Crystal Palace Football Club
We look at how the restaurants at St. Martin's Courtyard, London's newest dining destination, are operating, and how they expect to trade once the area opens to the public
Seven years after closing La Tante Claire at The Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge, Pierre Koffmann has returned with his first eponymous restaurant, replacing the departed Gordon Ramsay-owned Boxwood Café
Wahaca, the Mexican street food restaurant concept owned by Thomasina Miers and Mark Selby, is to open its fourth venue in Wardour Street, Soho in October
Hilton Worldwide has announced an agreement with The Ability Group to open London Syon Park, the latest additon to the group's luxury brand of hotels, Waldorf Astoria
Heston Blumenthal has insisted he won’t be ‘swanning into London’ with his new venture Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental hotel, claiming the restaurant will be more informal than other five-star hotel restaurants
InterContinental Hotels Group is expanding its Hotel Indigo brand in the UK with the launch of four new sites, the first of which has opened near Tower Bridge, London this week
Having launched bar-café-deli-diner Giant Robot in May, Jonathan Downey, owner of the Match Bar Group, has opened Redhook, a New York style steak and seafood venue in Farringdon
Pub operator and restaurateur Charlie McVeigh is targeting an early 2011 launch for Draft House number four, having just exchanged contracts on a third site at London’s Tower Bridge
St. John co-owners Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver have released further details about the St. John Hotel, which is due to open in London’s Chinatown in late September
Yum! Brands has announced its Mexican-inspired restaurant chain Taco Bell is to return to the UK, with a site set to open at the Lakeside shopping centre in June
Five restaurant openings, including Fishworks and Bincho Yakitori, have been confirmed ahead of next week’s launch of London’s West End piazza development Central Saint Giles
UK budget hotels have become bloated with unnecessary amenities presenting an opportunity for a new breed of ‘economy’ accommodation, according to the man behind Premiere Classe
