Steve Perez, chairman of drinks company Global Brands, and his brother Sebastian are to open a £20m hotel called Casa in Chesterfield, Derbyshire this autumn
Heritage Properties & Hotels, operator of The Crab at Chieveley in Berkshire, has acquired the Park Central Hotel in Bournemouth for an undisclosed sum in the region of £4m
Heron International, the property group behind the Heron Tower construction in Bishopsgate, London, is seeking an operator for the tower’s Restaurant and Sky Bar, which upon completion will be the highest in London
The icy weather experienced last month has forced award-winning Manchester restaurant and bar Ithaca to announce its closure at the end of February, after trading plummeted by 80 per cent
Balfour Castle in Shapsinay, Scotland, is to launch as an exclusive use property in April, with former Kinnaird Estate head chef Jean-Baptiste Bady joining the team
Nathan Outlaw is to reopen his eponymous restaurant at the St Enodoc Hotel in Rock, Cornwall tomorrow, after relocating from the Marina Villa Hotel in Fowey when it was put up for sale last year
Albert Roux is to open another two restaurants under his name at hotels in Scotland following the success of his first Scottish restaurant Chez Roux at the Rocpool Reserve hotel in Inverness
Greetings card entrepreneur Andrew Brownsword is continuing the roll-out of his Abode boutique hotel brand with plans to open the next one in Chester this April
Staff at The Goose at Britwell Salome, which regained its Michelin star this year, have walked out over an alleged dispute with the owner over the direction of the business
Anthony Demetre and Will Smith, the pair behind the Michelin-starred Arbutus and Wild Honey, have confirmed the acquisition of a new site in Covent Garden, which will open as the pair’s third restaurant later this year
Indian restaurant Vama in Chelsea will close tomorrow before relocating to a new site in London's West End later this year, owner V8 Gourmet has announced
As part of BigHospitality's Sustainability week we visited the Lancaster London hotel to find out what managers and staff were doing to help run the business more sustainably.
Scottish chef Nick Nairn is to open a restaurant at Doubletree by Hilton hotel, Dunblane Hydro at the end of the month following the hotel's £12m refurbishment.
The Marine Hotel in Devon has been acquired by the Harbour Hotels Group, and following an extended period of closure, will reopen in March as a four-star hotel
Michelin starred Belfast restaurant Deanes has temporarily closed after freezing temperatures caused a pipe to burst, flooding the premises and damaging its structure
Eight fire engines and over 40 firefighters were called to fight a blaze at the Little Bay restaurant in Battersea on New Year’s Day, just as the restaurant finished its first service of the year
Helen Darroze’s Michelin-starred Espelette restaurant at The Connaught in Mayfair has been blasted by animal welfare activists for serving Dutch veal when waiters claimed it was British
Michelin-starred Indian chef Atul Kochhar is to open Colony Bar & Grill, a new mid-market venture, with restaurateur Carlo Spetale in Marylebone in February 2010
Bar/restaurant operator Drake & Morgan has announced plans to expand in London next year, with the launch of a third site near St. Paul’s Cathedral in April 2010
The owners of Pan Asian restaurant chain Cosmo have put up a £10,000 reward to find the person responsible for a fake news article that claimed their Bristol restaurant had been shut down for serving dog meat.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, the popular US-based burrito restaurant chain, is to launch in the UK next year, with its first site set to open on London’s Charing Cross Road in April
Tasty Med Ltd, a new UK venture, is to launch a series of authentic Turkish restaurants in London under the umbrella of Tike Restaurants, the first of which has now opened near Fenchurch Street Station
Healthy fast-food restaurant Pod has opened its fourth site in London’s New Street Square, and has announced plans to launch a further ten sites in 2010
Galvin La Chapelle , the latest restaurant in the Galvin brothers' stable, will open its doors to diners on 18 November following more than a year's work to convert the Grade II listed St Botolph's Hall
Pub operator Cubitt House opens its third site, the Orange in London's Belgravia following a £1m refurbishment which includes the addition of four hotel bedrooms
Great British Menu winner Kenny Atkinson will move from Seaham Hall to head up a restaurant at the multi-million pound Rockliffe Hall hotel when it opens in County Durham later this month
Harvey Nichols Restaurant Prism on Leadenhall Street in London has swapped its fine dining offer to a ‘contemporary brasserie style’ to keep up with consumers’ changing eating habits
