Shirley Spear, the founder of Isle of Skye restaurant The Three Chimneys and John Hyde, executive training of hospitality training provider HIT Training are among those receiving honours in the Queen's 90th Birthday Honours list.
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From the 51-100 World's Best Restaurants, to Michelin-starred collaborations, and multi-million pound deals, this week was a big one. Here's our news pick
Canadian coffee chain Second Cup has revealed plans to open five new sites across the UK this year as it aims to increase its share of the UK's £7.9bn coffee market.
The chef-owner of Azurmendi in Spain’s Basque Country, number 19 on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list, is preparing to open Eneko at One Aldwych this summer.
Bronte, a Tom Dixon-designed restaurant is to open on London’s Strand in July, serving internationally-inspired dishes with a Pacific-Antipodean slant.
Coombeshead Farm in Cornwall, a working farm and dining room created by Pitt Cue's Tom Adams and April Bloomfield of New York's The Spotted Pig, is set to open for business next month.
New World Trading Company (NWTC), the pub and restaurant group created by the owners of Living Ventures Group, has been sold to private equity firm Graphite Capital for £50m.
Michelin-starred chefs Alain Ducasse and Tom Kerridge are to collaborate in the first ever joint one-off lunch at Kerridge’s flagship Marlow pub, The Hand & Flowers, on 3 July.
Starbucks has taken on more than 1,000 apprentices across the UK since launching its programme in 2012, according to partner Remit Training, and has pledged another 1,000 by 2020.
Italian steakhouse group Macellaio RC is known for its extravagant preparation methods, with The Guardian dubbing its fondness for loud butchery and stabbing knives in to the table as 'butch-camp'.
Watch Sam Mitchell, head bartender at the newly-renovated and relaunched Marriott London County Hall hotel, demo The Jubilee ‒ a summery, gin-based drink ‒ just in time for World Gin Day on 11 June
Rob and Lucy Brewer from the Rashleigh Arms in Charlestown, Cornwall, have been named as the British Institute of Innkeeping’s (BII) 2016 Licensee of the Year.
The introduction of the National Living Wage is having less of an impact on the recruitment plans of the majority of small businesses in the hospitality industry with 29 per cent actually increasing salaries to help retain staff.
Piccolino and Bar & Grill owner Individual Restaurant Company has kept a low profile in recent years. But with the remodelling of its estate and a tie-up with an Italian TV chef, it is no longer keeping its qualities to itself.
Charlie Gilkes and Duncan Stirling, founders of the London-based restaurant, bar and nightclub operator, the Inception Group, are teaming up with their wives - marketeer Anneke Gilkes and nutritional therapist Zoe Stirling – to launch Squirrel, a new...
Palé Hall, the North Wales hotel owners Angela and Alan Harper will open in collaboration with chef Michael Caines this year, has appointed its first general manager and head chef.
Amaris Hospitality is investing an extra £24m in the business to pay for extensions to three hotels within its portfolio - Jurys Inn Oxford, Hilton Garden Inn Dublin and Jurys Inn Belfast.
Music has the ability to create an atmosphere that can contribute to a fun and enjoyable experience in your restaurant, hotel or pub, but before you hit the play button, follow this checklist from Sarah Mitchell at PPL to ensure you're going about...
Online restaurant reservation platform Bookatable has launched National Business Lunch Week this June to help address what it calls the “death” of lunchtime business dining. The new week will also aim to show restaurants that quick, efficient lunchtime...
More details have been revealed about Michelin-starred chef Shaun Rankin’s new restaurant at five-star, 129-bedroom boutique hotel Flemings Mayfair, as part of the hotel’s £14m refurbishment.
Philip Turner worked in banking before taking the leap into hospitality to open The Packhorse Inn near Newmarket in 2012. His company Chestnut Group, which refuses to define itself as a pub, restaurant or hotel, will grow to at least four sites by the...
Campaigners are calling on restaurants, cafes and pubs to turn down loud music to make eating out a more 'pleasant' experience for hard of hearing diners.
British artisan café and restaurant group Albion is to open its second and largest site, in London’s Clerkenwell this month, including an oyster bar, pie room, charcuterie corner and cocktail space.
Rotisserie chicken brand Clockjack has created a delivery-only kitchen for its second opening, in collaboration with growing online order service Deliveroo.
Chefs Matt Worswick, Russell Bateman, Adam Handling and Mini Patel are among those in the line-up for this year’s BBC Great British Menu, ‘The Great Britons’ Banquet’.
The chairman of pub group JD Wetherspoon has said Brexit will not cause any issues for the hospitality industry, as the group defended its new Brexit-themed beer mats today.