Our most read news stories this week include a third site for Noble Rot, the demise of Thai restaurant brand Lime Squeezy and the closure of Noma (again).
Chef and grower Dan Cox will open his long-awaited Cornwall restaurant early next month as he looks to 'celebrate the connection between food and agriculture'.
Jack, Harry and Matthew Applebee, the brothers behind Borough Market restaurant Applebee’s Fish, are to launch a new tapas concept at London’s Southbank Centre next month.
Selin Kiazim and Laura Christie have permanently closed their Turkish Cypriot restaurant Oklava in east London, with the pair saying they 'fought long and hard' to keep the business going.
Giggling Squid’s sister brand Lime Squeezy has closed its last remaining restaurant, bringing to an end its high street presence less than two years after it first launched.
Gino D’Acampo is to open a new upmarket Italian restaurant and bar at the recently refurbished Leeds Marriott Hotel, as he plots further expansion in the UK and internationally.
Breweries will benefit from an increased rate of support under the Government's new Energy Bills Discount Scheme having been recognised as an energy and trade intensive industry.
The hospitality sector 'faces a £4.5bn hike in its bills' from April after the Government confirmed it would slash the level of energy support businesses receive.
BrewDog CEO James Watt has said the group's infamous gold can promotion, which falsely claimed that customers could win a solid-gold can of lager, personally cost him close to £500,000.
Thai restaurant group Giggling Squid says it has had “its most profitable year since inception”, despite the ongoing disruption from the Coronavirus pandemic.
The first week of 2023 saw hospitality count the cost of recent rail strikes, business leaders recognised in the New Year’s Honours list, and multiple restaurant closures from D&D London.
Danish-owned sushi and kushiyaki specialist Sticks’n’Sushi has posted a strong set of results for its financial year ending 30 June 2022 with its UK arm accounting for the majority of its profits.
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has told business leaders the current level of energy support is 'unsustainably expensive' and that the current £18bn scheme was always limited to six months.
D&D London has closed its Klosterhaus restaurant in Bristol after just over two years of trading, with the group citing 'current economic challenges' as being partly behind the decision.
The owner of better burger group Byron has filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators, but is 'confident' it will secure a rescue deal for the business.
The group behind tasting menu restaurant Six by Nico is plotting major expansion across the UK and internationally following 'robust' financial results in the year since Covid restrictions were lifted.
The impact of the train strikes has cost the hospitality sector a total of £2.5bn in lost sales since industrial action began in June last year, according to UKHospitality.
Trade in night time hospitality businesses was down by a fifth in December compared with 2019, a poll from the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has shown.
Nearly 400 pubs 'disappeared' across England and Wales in 2022, according to analysis of official Government data by the real estate adviser Altus Group.
