Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester has joined The Fat Duck, The Waterside Inn and Restaurant Gordon Ramsay as a three star restaurant in the 2010 Michelin Guide for Great Britain & Ireland
Charles Morgan is the general manager of The Forbury Hotel in Reading, Von Essen’s newest five star property rescued from administration last October, and the first in the group’s new Metropolitan Set
Property values in the restaurant, hotel and pub sectors fell sharply in 2009, but there was an increase in transactions on the previous year as operators snapped up bargains across all three sectors
Action Against Hunger (AAH) is appealing to the UK’s restaurants to support its emergency response to the Haiti earthquake, which is feared to have killed 50,000 people