VisitBritain is withdrawing its marketing campaign from 14 countries and cutting 70 jobs in reaction to the Government spending cuts in October last year.
Alyn Williams, who has made his name holding top chef positions with Marcus Wareing and Gordon Ramsay, will now be branching off on his own in a new restaurant in London’s Westbury Hotel.
An Indian couple have opened their first Samosa café in Reading, with the aim of bringing ‘authentic’ Indian street food to UK consumers throughout the day.
People 1st has launched an apprenticeship strategy aimed at helping hospitality businesses meet their staff needs and improving the long-term performance of the sector.
The Playboy Club, which left London’s Park Lane in 1981, is to return to Mayfair this summer with Iron Chef and Market Kitchen regular Judy Joo executive head chef.
Hotels have benefited from the breakfast opportunity for years, but with the economic downturn biting at the heels of many hospitality businesses, restaurant and pub operators are now waking up to the potential revenue provided by early morning service...
Tablebook.me, an outsourced reservations service, has joined forces with the booking website OpenTable to help fine dining restaurants maximise their customer service and fill more tables through telephone reservations.
Professional and trainee pastry chefs are being invited to enter a chocolate desert competition, which organisers ACF hope will raise the game of the sector in the culinary world.
The Academy of Food and Wine Service has launched a training framework that it hopes will continue the momentum created by the BBC2 series Michel Roux's Service, which aimed to raise the profile of front-of-house careers.
Hospitality operators planning special events for the London Olympic Games next year are being urged to enter their events into a Culture Diary set up by the city to ensure better planning and communication of all activities.
Restaurants, pubs and hotels including The Butchers Arms in Hepworth and Gilgamesh in Camden, tell us what promotions they’re running to attract customers.
The Bocuse d’Or, the “Oscars” of the culinary world, sees chef teams from across the world invest thousands of pounds into competing for a coveted trophy of the competition’s founder, Paul Bocuse.
Restaurant groups D&D London, Prezzo, Las Iguanas, Le Pain Quotidien and Ping Pong have all pledged to improve the sustainability of their businesses and have joined the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) to help them achieve this.
The co-founder of the Spanish fashion empire that owns Zara is in final-stage talks to invest £350m in a “super-luxury” London hotel bearing the Bulgari name.
The UK tourism and hospitality sectors stand to lose out on the full benefits of the Olympic Games if the country does not address a number of major obstacles it faces, the chief executive of the British Hospitality Association told industry leaders yesterday.
