A group of UK’s leading restaurant owners, investors and operators has launched a charity that will raise money to help tackle food and water poverty at home and abroad.
CHIK’N, the fast food fried chicken venture from the founders of Chick ‘n’ Sours, has confirmed its second site will open in Islington in the New Year.
While the majority of the industry has taken its foot off the expansion pedal, The Ivy Collection is taking the opportunity to build its estate. And it’s not hanging around
London chain Rosa’s Thai is expected to open its first regional site early next year after signing heads of terms on a premises in Liverpool’s Albert Dock area.
Martha Ortiz makes her international debut at the Intercontinental London Park Lane with this high concept, flamboyant and reassuringly expensive restaurant.
Award-winning gastropub Freemasons at Wiswell in Lancashire’s Ribble Valley is set to become a restaurant with rooms after being granted planning permission to add accommodation at the premises.
Holborn Dining Room executive chef and pie maker extraordinaire Calum Franklin is to convert his restaurant’s deli into a pie kitchen that will offer his intricately decorated creations to takeaway via a hatch on High Holborn.
Hotels are missing out on valuable food and beverage sales by not offering customers an incentive at the time of booking, research by CGA and Zonal Retail Data Systems reveals.
Exotic food used to mean a Chinese or Indian takeaway, but no more. Restaurant, pub and even grab-and-go customers have never been more adventurous. For proof, one only needs to look at the UK’s fastest growing cuisine styles.
East London curry house Tayyabs was forced to shut down for 48 hours last week for allegedly employing illegal workers it claims were not properly vetted by an external recruitment company. Here Esther Smith, partner at UK law firm TLT, explains how restaurants...
