Private members club Les Ambassadeurs in Mayfair has announced the launch of The Milroy, a fine dining restaurant that will welcome public diners for lunch for the first time in the club’s history
Turkish restaurant Tike on Fenchurch Place, London, has closed after just six months following its UK operator's decision to go with a 'simpler' Italian restaurant concept
Michel Roux Jr and Compass Group will finally open a fine dining restaurant at Parliament Square next week, over a year since the venture was first announced
As the S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best awards drew to a close for another year, BigHospitality caught up with Daniel Boulud at his first London restaurant at Mandarin Oriental Hotel, where he cooked for the top 50 chefs in the world
Paramount, the restaurant and bar situated on the top three floors of London’s Centre Point building, will next month open to the public for the first time
Healthy eating restaurant group Tossed has announced plans to operate 25 sites by 2013, after receiving a £1.5m development fund from venture capital company Beringea
Del’Aziz, the Mediterranean restaurant and deli operator, has revealed plans to open its sixth restaurant by September and also wants to develop a London-based central kitchen and bakery
The Lakeside Hotel, forced to close for business when floods struck Cumbria in November last year, has re-opened following three months of restoration work
After months of speculation, Pierre Koffmann has announced he will open a restaurant at The Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge this June, seven years after he closed La Tante Claire at the hotel
First Restaurant Group, operator of The Ebury near Sloane Square, will this month launch a pop-up venue on the banks of the Grand Union canal in Little Venice, near Maida Vale
The UK’s first fully vegetarian restaurant chain, and the first global chain to carbon footprint every menu item, is launching in London this summer with three central venues
England and Liverpool football player Steven Gerrard has teamed up with Southport hotelier Paul Adams to launch a chain of New York ‘hipster bar’ inspired restaurants
Mexican restaurant brand Barburrito will open its fourth and fifth sites this month as part of plans to grow the estate to seven by the end of this year.
Alexis Gauthier, chef patron at Michelin-starred Pimlico restaurant Roussillon, is set to launch a restaurant at Lindsay House, the Soho-based townhouse previously operated by Richard Corrigan
The Vineyard Group is to roll out a new informal dining concept, designed by executive chef Daniel Galmiche and consultant chef Billy Reid, across the seven hotels acquired from Folio Hotels last year
Pan-Asian restaurant chain Tampopo has revealed plans to expand at a rate of three or four sites a year, starting with the opening of its seventh site in Reading this summer
The Goose at Britwell Salome, forced to close when staff walked out in February, will re-open next month under the direction of new head chef John Footman
Work on a new four-star, 175-bedroom hotel at the Rose Bowl cricket ground in Hampshire has resumed after a judicial review, launched by a group of local hoteliers into its construction, was overturned
Two French entrepreneurs have opened the UK’s first speciality cheese restaurant in Chelsea near London’s Kings Road, serving up to 200 cheeses at any one time
Busaba Eathai, the Thai restaurant chain founded by Alan Yau, has announced plans to open four more sites, including its first outside London, this year
Sanzaru Limited, the new company erected by Rising Star Leisure managing director Steve Kelly, is launching its first venue, an Asian-inspired lounge and karaoke bar, in Clapham this week
A new Italian restaurant and lounge bar called Cielo will open in Mayfair next week with Sardinian born chef Monserrato Marini behind the stove and Tobia Speranza taking care of front-of-house
Shoreditch's Sosho bar/restaurant and private members' club the East Room have been forced to close 'for the foreseeable future' after the business was completely gutted by fire this morning
The An Lochan restaurant in Glasgow, along with the estate's hotel in Tighnabruaich and inn in Perthshire, are seeking new owners after being placed on the market
Whitbread has secured a site next to the Olympic Stadium in Stratford, East London, where it will build a 267-bedroom Premier Inn to open in time for the games in 2012
Chilango, the fast casual Mexican restaurant chain founded by Eric Partaker and Dan Houghton, will open two more sites outside the capital this year and is planning to open a 'handful' of central London sites
