The mid-market veterans behind Strada and Côte discuss the benefits of cooking from scratch, refining existing concepts, and explain how to rollout at pace.
The newly appointed head chef of 10 in 8 Fine Dining Group’s Dartmouth restaurant Angelique turned his back on a fine dining career in London for one in the country, and hasn’t looked back since.
The owners of a converted Victorian bathhouse near London’s Liverpool Street are preparing to take their decadent dining and entertainment concept to a smaller site on Stoke Newington’s Church Street.
As much of the hospitality industry struggles to keep up revenue streams, hotels in the capital managed to make 2010 a year of growth by charging more for a night’s stay.
Restaurants, pubs and hotels including The Real Greek and Zilli Restaurants, tell us what they’re doing to attract customers during January, a notoriously quiet month.
Michel Roux Jr has taken a break from promoting chef careers on Masterchef: The Professionals to present a new TV show aiming to raise the profile of front-of-house careers instead.
The UK’s hospitality industry is being offered the chance to show off its singing talent in an X Factor-themed night designed to raise funds for the industry’s careers charity, Springboard.
The Malton Chef Challenge, the competition held in partnership with Restaurant magazine that is seeking a new chef to open a restaurant in the Yorkshire market town, has decided on two finalists to compete in a cook-off.
UK sporting venues such as Twickenham Stadium and Royal Ascot have signed up for a customer service programme introduced last year by People 1st to train hospitality staff ahead of the Olympics.
A new four-year £100m marketing campaign devised by VisitBritain is estimated to create 50,000 tourism jobs and boost visitor spending in the UK by £2bn.
Angela Hartnett has teamed up with a new catering firm to create the dishes for the dining room, café and bar at the recently refurbished Whitechapel Gallery.
Smaller companies will face a tough year ahead, as higher tax and restrictive employment law create barriers to growth, according to the Forum of Private Business.
Christopher Ainsworth, partner in hospitality sector law firm Kimbells, helps one reader understand the legal rights of staff and employers when accommodation is offered with the job.