Imperial Catering Equipment claims to have taken cooking technology to a ‘whole new level’ with the launch of its new ultra-compact and energy-saving Ovention Matchbox Oven.
Tommi’s Burger Joint, the pop-up-to-permanent Icelandic burger restaurant which has just re-opened in Marylebone, reported 'fantastic’ sales in its first week, with director Robert Aron Magnusson claiming simplicity and quality are the key to success...
Chameleon Bar & Dining, which operates six pubs across Yorkshire and Lancashire, has reported healthy annual accounts in the year to 31 March, with turnover up and margins improved following a shift of focus towards becoming ‘destination food venues’.
Paul Askew, chef director of London Carriage Works and the Hope Street Hotel in Liverpool, is planning to open a smaller fine-dining restaurant in the city, BigHospitality can reveal.
Foodservice Equipment Marketing (FEM) has created a salt and spice dispenser designed to distribute a measured amount of seasoning at the pull of a trigger.
The godfather of fusion cuisine and co-owner of The Providores and Tapa Room and Kopapa restaurants in London has just opened The Sugar Club on Level 53 of the Sky Tower in Auckland, New Zealand.
For years Liverpool was viewed from afar as the second-best city in the North West never mind being a destination in its own right, but in the last few years it has risen like a Liver bird from the flames due in part to its burgeoning hospitality scene.
Shopping centre owner Intu is to start work on an 'innovative' new dining quarter at Lakeside shopping centre this month which will see 13 new food operators take up space there alongside existing brands Pizza Express, Ed's Easy Diner,...
TV chef and former Fifteen graduate Aaron Craze is to open his second pub after taking on a site in Berkshire, according to BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Report.
As yesterday’s ‘Spotlight on Edinburgh’showed, tourism in the Scottish capital has been booming of late. But a brand new industry event - the Edinburgh Tourism Showcase – has been launched to help hospitality businesses prepare for the impending winter...
The ‘Arms’ are being removed from the Imperial Arms in Chelsea as the new owners of the popular King’s Road venue want to transform it from pub to restaurant.
After three months roaming London’s streets in its eponymous truck, South African street food vendor Bunnychow has secured its first semi-permanent site at one of the saught-after shipping containers within Shoreditch’s Boxpark development.
British rapper Professor Green, Hoxton Pony owner Gerry Calabrese and his brother Jon are to open a nightclub called INK in London's West End next month.
While it doesn’t have the same historical and cultural pull of yesterday’s hospitable city Edinburgh, the North Eastern city of Leeds is nevertheless fast becoming a hospitality hotspot with a growing eating-out market.
Packed lunch specialist Chef in a Box has launched a range of ambient breakfast boxes to enable caterers and hoteliers to provide an on-the-go option for customers.
Two sisters – the co-founder and a former chef of the Salt Yard Group – are opening their first business together: LeCoq, a neighbourhood rotisserie chicken restaurant in Islington.
A recent survey of BigHospitality readers revealed that 65 per cent of restaurant and pub owners saw increased bookings and sales as a result of the heatwave in July, and the latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker reflect these benefits.
What better time to write about the Scottish capital than when the world’s biggest arts festival is in full swing? The Edinburgh Fringe brings in thousands of performers and tourists and its cosmopolitan and bohemian nature encapsulates the city’s year-round...
Llanwenarth Hotel, the hotel outside Abergavenny owned by former Welsh rugby league star Richard Wallace, has been bought by a local businessman after a year and a half of being on the market.
Budget hotel chain Travelodge has today become the largest hotel operator in Cambridge following an investment of £18m to open its sixth hotel in the city.
While many drinks categories in the UK on-trade are declining in sales, craft beer is bucking the trend, with a sales growth of 79 per cent in the past year equating to 74 million pints being sold in pubs and bars across the country.
Diageo has created a premium sub-brand of its cream liqueur Baileys that blends Belgian chocolate with alcohol to 'deliver a real Belgian chocolate experience'.
More than 800 real ales, ciders and perries will be on offer to 55,000 people this week with the start of the Great British Beer Festival, but the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) says beer sales are suffering with statistics showing that 38 per cent of...
Edinburgh-based independent pub operator The Shilling Group has opened the doors of its sixth freehold establishment, The Cross & Corner, in the city centre.
Raymond Blanc-trained chef Chris Harrod has taken over The Crown at Whitebrook, the former Michelin-starred restaurant in Monmouthshire forced to close in March after it went into administration.
Beds and Bars, the UK-based hostel and bar group, has launched an online check-in and payment service across its St Christopher's Inns business to help 'transform the customer experience.'
With the Great British Beer Festival kicking off tomorrow (13 August), Community Pubs Minister Brandon Lewis is set to announce that 100 pubs in England have now been listed as Assets of Community Value (ACV), giving them greater protection against being...
Kaffir lime leaves, rhubarb, sardines and horseradish are among the on-trend ingredients that are expected to be in increasingly widespread use in international cuisine, according to a new report.
Craig Sandle is proof that dedication and commitment pays off in hospitality. The 37-year-old Edinburgh-born chef has worked in restaurants for over 20 years, spending nine of those heading up Number One at the Balmoral Hotel. Now, he oversees the latest...
New music venue Belgrave Music Hall will open its doors in Leeds in October and will house two restaurants designed to support new street food concepts.
The owner of a construction firm and the founder of an online fashion shop have teamed up to launch their first restaurant and bar in London’s West End.
Hotels in Northern Ireland say they are struggling to compete against hotels across the border in the Republic of Ireland because the VAT rate for hospitality and tourism businesses there is lower.
Bō Làng, a new dim sum restaurant and teahouse, is set to open in Chelsea next month as founder Aytan Eldarova hopes her debut hospitality venture will showcase the diverse food culture of China.
Cabana, the fledgling Brazilian concept led by David Ponte, founder of the Momo and Mocoto restaurants and restaurateur Jamie Barber, has secured its fourth site in London at the Designer Outlet at Wembley and raised £3.5m of new funding.
P&G Professional has launched a brand new range of 15 cleaning and disinfecting products ready for direct distribution to hotels, restaurants, pubs and cafés across the UK.
Dorset hotel The Grosvenor Shaftesbury will re-open its doors next month as The Grosvenor Arms following a four month refurbishment of the ground floor.
The term ‘zero-hours contract’ generates more light than heat and is vague and unhelpful, according to the British Hospitality Association (BHA), which claims variable hours of work in hotels, restaurants and pubs across the UK has been central to job...
The trend for restaurant chains to create separately branded spin-offs as a way of moving into new territory appears to be at an all-time high, with a number of branded players developing ‘satellite’ concepts over the past few months.
London-based brewer and pub operator Fuller’s is today opening the doors of a new ‘raw and exciting’ concept in Putney with an American diner theme, which could be rolled out to other venues if successful.
David Haimes has stepped down as group chief executive of Obika Holdings, the international mozzarella bar chain, ahead of the opening of the company's third and fourth sites, according to BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Report.
Women 1st is encouraging members of the hospitality industry to join a debate on whether or not the Government should introduce quotas for women on executive boards.
Hotel management software provider Guestline has unveiled its ‘next generation’ EPoS system, offering hoteliers a host of new features including complete integration with PMS, optimisation on all mobile devices and more detailed reporting and stock analysis.
Having shed a number of under-performing sites, La Tasca chief executive Simon Wilkinson is quietly masterminding a turnaround at the Spanish casual-dining chain.