Formerly head chef at Restaurant Tom Aikens, Julien Maisonneuve is now the new executive chef of the Booking Office bar and restaurant in Marriott’s latest London hotel opening, the St Pancras Renaissance, where he will work alongside Marcus Wareing’s...
Last October Mark Jankel and Jun Tanaka took to the streets of London in an Airstream van to serve fresh, British food inspired by Jankel’s project The Food Initiative over the course of two weeks. Street Kitchen was run as part of the London Restaurant...
Legacy Hotels and Resorts has taken over the management contract of Great Hallingbury Manor Hotel in Bishop’s Stortford, and is to prepare the business for sale over the coming months.
Lisa Allen of Northcote Manor, Anirudh Arora of Moti Mahal and Sudha Shankar Saha of Saffron are amongst 40 chefs nominated in the shortlist for the 2011 Craft Guild of Chefs Awards.
The British public is turning its attention from the Easter break and onto the Royal Wedding this coming weekend, with two-thirds expecting to order a commemorative drink in a restaurant or pub to toast the couple.
Von Essen Hotels Ltd, the holding company of the 28-strong luxury hotel group, has gone into administration after failing to meet its debt repayment schedule.
Restaurant operator Richoux Group has said its start-up Zippers and Dean’s Diner brands have been earmarked for their growth potential, but it will be taking a “measured” approach to their development while it asses their suitability for a wider roll-out.
Russell Norman, former operations director at Caprice Holdings, has achieved critical acclaim with his first three restaurants Polpo, Polpetto and Spuntino, opened with business partner Richard Beatty. The pair are now on the verge of opening their fourth...
Hotel chain Premier Inn says that after just three months of launching a smartphone application it is now seeing over 5 per cent of all hotel bookings made on mobile phones, a figure it expects will double in the near future.
The restaurateur behind two of East London’s most successful Vietnamese restaurants – Viet Grill and Cây Tre, both in Shoreditch – is to open a flagship site in Soho next month.
Last year it was T-shirts bearing the face of an absent colleague. This year its was Viking hats and horns. When Noma was named the S.Pellegrino World's Best Restaurant for a second consecutive year the throng expected Rene Redzepi and his team to...
While just four UK restaurants featured on the S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants list this year, a further six venues fell just short of making the top 50.
International visitors to London spent close to £9bn in the capital last year, with tourist numbers at a four-year high compared to the gloomier picture in the rest of the country.
The herb and spice firm McCormick has opened a Technical Innovation Centre in Buckinghamshire, which it will use as a base for developing high flavour-impact products for the foodservice sector.
IHG, Hilton, Wyndham and Marriott are the top four global hotel groups based on number of rooms, with all of them operating over 600,000 rooms throughout the world.
Michelin starred Indian chef Sriram Aylur will open a pop-up restaurant this summer at the Surrey County Cricket Club, combining fine fining with international cricket.
After much anticipation former Gordon Ramsay protégé Mark Sargeant has announced he is to open two new restaurants in Folkestone, Kent this summer: Rocksalt, a seafood restaurant and bar, and The Smokehouse, a fish and chip shop.
The UK’s major pub and restaurant groups have recorded a slight increase in sales last month, demonstrating that consumers are still eating out despite spending less at the supermarket.
In 2010, former Maze executive chef Jason Atherton decided to run a pop-up in a disused Caffé Uno in Mayfair, to raise funds for homelessness charity Street Smart. The venue, which ran for just two days, was entirely funded by donations, and raised over...
With just hours to go until the S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, tune in to BigHospitality on Facebook and Twitter for live updates, photos and gossip as the awards unfold.
It took Adam Simmonds 16 years before he accepted his first head chef position, but the now Michelin-starred executive chef of Danesfield House in Marlow claims his slow and steady approach has ultimately culminated in his success.
With 45 per cent of all hotel bookings currently made on the internet, it is more important than ever for hotels to optimise their online presence. Sam Trainor-Buckingham, marketing director at Ignite Hospitality tells BigHospitality readers how they...
Radisson Edwardian Hotels has introduced QR codes on its menus, which customers can scan with their smartphones to view a video of the dish being prepared.
The 50-strong Russian restaurant operator Novikov Restaurant Group will be launching its first site outside of Russia with the opening of a new venue in London’s Mayfair.
EBLEX is urging pub and restaurant caterers to use the King Arthur Beef Roast cut this 23 April to maximise sales across the St. George’s Day and Easter weekend.
Licensees are being threatened with arrest and pubs with closure in a clampdown by police forces across the country, which has been labelled “an abuse”.
Pubs, restaurants and caterers are being called on to enter the RSCPA Good Business Awards, which recognise companies for their contribution to animal welfare by offering higher welfare products on their menus.
Pub operator Barracuda Group is to open the 150th pub in its Smith & Jones portfolio later this month, following the conversion of some of its other pubs into the new brand format.
Consumption of cider in the UK has increased marginally over the past year, although volumes were down for beer, wine and spirits, according to the latest data from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC).
The Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle is preparing to open an Asian restaurant, which will apply the same concept of quality fast food to a different cuisine.
Average weekly salaries in the UK hospitality industry were just under £300 a week in February 2011, while the number of jobs available in the last quarter have remained stable, according to data released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Restaurants, pubs, cafes and food producers are being invited to enter this year’s Taste of the West awards, which recognise food and drink produced and served in the south west of the country.
