Deans Place Country Hotel and Restaurant has picked up the Excellent Social Responsibility award at the HRH Hotel Excellence Awards, weeks after it won the Water Management Category gong at the CHA Hotelier of the Year awards.
Chef set to re-open the New Angel restaurant in Dartmouth after receiving the backing of the internet tycoon behind lastminute.com. The restaurant was closed by his wife while he was starring in ITVs Im A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!
The three-star Belgrave Hotel will become a Premier Inn with 85 bedrooms when it reopens in June as company pledges to invest more than £4million in Torquay Bay.
Firefighters battle blaze at famous Brighton hotel as 400 guests are evacuated to safety. Salvage work has now begun at the hotel, which was the scene of an assassination attempt on Margaret Thatcher in 1984.
One of the Welsh capitals oldest hotels is set to reopen as The Parc after a £15million restoration following a devastating fire in 2006. Thistle Hotels says the venue will be one of the jewells in its crown.
As Brasserie Blanc announces it is to close its Birmingham restaurant, blaming high rents on the decision to pull the plug, we ask just how bad this nationwide problem could get.
Private equity-backed group completes purchase of Grade-II listed hotel in a deal worth nearly £4million and plans to transform it into the citys first four-star resort.
ALAN Yau has sold his central London restaurant Hakkasan and Yauatcha for $60m in a move which will help holding company Hakkasan fund its international expansion plans. Four Hakkasan ...
Five-star Edinburgh hotel to undergo second huge refit in seven years as owners defy fears of a difficult 2008 for the industry by outlining investment plans.
Popular seaside hotel on the market after major rennovation work by its former catering manager, who is set to make £1million profit on his investment.
Get the location wrong for a new restaurant and you can kiss goodbye to it being a success – but just how on earth do you get it right? Words Chris Maillard Photography Laurie Fletcher Location, location, location – so good they named it ..
Break the pattern with these wallpaper alternatives. The search for the next big thing in wall coverings continues apace. Patterned wallpapers are so ubiquitous they're getting boring, but there are alternatives out there. Take the Vynil, the ...
It's high time restaurants took a stand against low-slung furniture After what seems like an age of Japanese-influenced, Zen-style low-slung chairs, sofas and coffee tables, it comes as a relief that design is now reverting back to the vertical....
Neglected Victorian coach house in the heart of West Dulwich is brought back to life The locals of West Dulwich in South London who have been tightly crossing their fingers for East Dulwich's gentrification to spread a little bit of its magic ...
The spiel? ;Obika is, at the moment, the only mozzarella bar in the world. It combines the quality of Italian food with design which looks pretty Japanese,; says Stefano Potorti, Obika Managing Director. Which means? Italian ingredients, ...
From London's fashionable East End to the cultural hub of the South Bank, Canteen is flying the flag for British cuisine and style There could scarcely be a more appropriate site for the second branch of Canteen than at the Royal Festival Hall. ...
A new seafood restaurant will open at Stanwell House Hotel in Lymington, Hampshire, after it was taken over by the former General Manager of Rhinefield House Hotel in nearby Brockenhurst. Robert Milton, who was General Manager at Rhinefield for three...
Restaurateur Dominic Ford has opened an authentic Japanese ‘yakitori restaurant next door to his Tamesa brasserie at the Oxo Tower on Londons South Bank. Bincho Yakitori is on the second floor of the building, in the space previously ...
Creating an alfresco bar can be a summer moneyspinner, here's how to make the most of your outdoor drinking space How we Brits love a bit of sunshine. Which is why when the weather's fair – and predictions are that this summer could be ..
North-western restaurateur, Paul Heathcote, is opening three new restaurants and refurbishing his existing estate as part of a £3m expansion plan. The restaurants will all open under the umbrella of Heathcotes, taking the estate up to 15 ...
The Maverick Grant Achatz and his trailblazing Alinea have helped Chicago challenge New York's standing as gastronomic capital of the USA The entrance to Alinea is down a long narrow corridor, a dimlylit windowless portal that gets narrower as ...
The team behind Brighton's Pintxo People have taken the concept to Shoreditch in East London Bohemian Brighton is less than an hour's train ride from the Capital's vibrant restaurants, yet ‘London on Sea' can seem a culinary ...
Chris Bodker, founder of Image Restaurants, sells the group to D&D D&D London has bought Image Restaurants, which is made up of Kensington Place, The Avenue, Launceston Place and The Fish Shop, all in South West London, for a figure believed ...
A brilliant dinner, good night's sleep and fantastic walk is ;all they do;, say the modest owners of Lakeland Gilpin Lodge The Cunliffes of Gilpin Lodge in Windermere call themselves hoteliers, not restaurateurs. From setting up their ...
Martel Smith, of No 3 York Place restaurant in Leeds, has bought The Dawnay Arms in Newton on Ouse near York for £500,000. Smith bought the pub with his partner, Kerry Ward, from auction. It dates back to 1772 and was a pub with rooms until two .
Antony Worrall Thompson is to open a restaurant in Windsor at the beginning of September, making it his sixth restaurant under the AWT Restaurants banner. The Windsor Bar & Grill will open in the former Bar Meze site. Antony Worrall Thompson ...
The 1950s retro-styled flagship restaurant at the heart of the Royal Festival Hall's £91m refurbishment Surely the measure of a successful ‘restaurant with a view' is when it has you gazing out only intermittently at the river/ ...
The traditional hawker centres of Singapore are the inspiration behind several of the city's new eating out concepts A lasting memory to many visitors to Malaysia and Singapore, particularly those of a foodie persuasion, is the hawker centre. ...
WHO? - Financial director Suzanne Eske (ex Gruppo) and partner Toby Gawin introduce British restaurant, Stanza, to the Teatro site. Head chef is Stuart Tattersall, formerly of the Match Group and Brasserie 44 in Leeds. Members' club Teatro ...
The spiel? ;It's a seasonal Italian influenced menu and we source quite a lot of products from Italy. Obviously our house speciality is ravioli with a choice of fillings and sauces all of which are served in a relaxed environment,; says ...