Three former Arbutus Group employees have teamed up to launch Picture, modern European restaurant situated opposite the BBC’s Broadcasting House on Great Portland Street.
A restaurant championing British free-range chicken and eggs and overseen by former Restaurant Group and Ignite director Kevin Bacon is set to open in London this summer.
Jamie Oliver has launched Jamie Oliver's Diner, a new semi-permanent restaurant in partnership with chef Arthur Potts Dawson, in a venue on Shaftesbury Avenue.
Costa Coffee has announced the launch of Cost Ice – a strategic re-brand of its Ice Cold Costa range – in a bid to drive summer sales for its ‘Proud to Serve’ (PTS) business customers.
Vapiano, the fast-casual Italian restaurant chain which allows diners to interact with the chefs, has secured a former nightclub in Soho for its third London restaurant.
As supermarkets begin to take a bigger bite of the foodservice sector, many restaurant operators are left struggling to compete. Could an extra emphasis on lunchtime offerings and more seating options provide that crucial point of difference?
Managed pubco TCG has revealed it is spending £400k to refurbish two of its venues which will focus more heavily on the daytime trade when they re-open later this month.
Andrew Pern, chef-proprietor of the 90-cover Star Inn in North Yorkshire, is set to open a second venue – the Star Inn The City – in York’s Museum Gardens this autumn.
Oblix at The Shard, the latest restaurant from Rainer Becker and Arjun Waney, has become the first hospitality venue in the London Bridge tower to open its doors; updated opening details have also been revealed for the three remaining businesses.
Hospitality workwear provider Bragard has launched a new range of uniforms for chefs and kitchen staff which feature a more modern design and more technically advanced materials.
David Connell is a prime example of good old-fashioned hard work paying off. Having worked at various restaurants and hotels in the UK and France, he joined luxury hotel group Exclusive Hotels over 10 years ago, recently taking up the position of general...
Following news that the council in Hartlepool has halted plans for an Early Morning Restriction Order for its licensed premises, BigHospitality has produced this lowdown of EMROs and the likelihood of other councils adopting the power.
John Torode and Gregg Wallace of MasterChef fame have been drafted in by the head of food and beverage at Heathrow to help improve the dining experience for passengers passing through the airport.
JD Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin has asked rival pub company Greene King to ‘respect’ a decision by the Stirling Licensing Board to grant a licence for a new Wetherspoon pub in Stirling city centre, close to a number of Greene King pubs.
Managed pubs located within the M25 are failing to perform as strongly as those outside the capital when it comes to food sales, according to a new report released by on-trade consultancy firm CGA Strategy.
Hilton Worldwide is set to open two new hotels in London this summer under its upscale DoubleTree brand – both of which are in the final stages of a £20m refurbishment programme.
Review website TripAdvisor has unveiled two new developments which essentially make it easier and quicker for UK hoteliers to collect customer feedback and manage their online reputation.
Joan Roca, the co-founder and head chef of El Celler de Can Roca, has told BigHospitality he expects the impact of his restaurant being named number one on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list to be 'huge' - bigger than the effect of other...
A new cooker has gone on trial in commercial kitchens with its creators claiming it can save more energy and water than using a conventional hob, water bath or steamer.
The team behind Chabrot Bistrot d'Amis restaurant in Knightsbridge has this week launched a second restaurant - Chabrot Bistrot des Halles in Smithfield - with hopes to open up to three more over the next three years.
John Vincent, co-founder of Leon, has teamed up with ex-Burger King and Olive Garden executive Brad Blum to launch a new investment vehicle called Five to Seven.
City-centre budget hotel operator Sleeperz Hotels is launching Cityroomz - a new sister brand which will offer rooms at even lower prices - with the first property opening in Edinburgh later this month.
Jill McDonald, chief executive and president of the northern Europe division of McDonald's, has joined the board of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) as the hotelier reveals its UK revenues have been hit by a rising supply of bedroom stock in London.
Hotels in the UK offering bedrooms to business guests during the day could benefit from a new revenue stream, according to bookings website between9and5.com, which has seen a 400 per cent rise in the number of bookings made by the corporate market in...
The new operations manager of The Cinnamon Group has admitted that the business has seen little growth over the past year, but insists there is still room to expand across the UK with the lunchtime trade cited as a ‘key opportunity’.
City Pub Company, the operator founded by the team behind the Capital Pub Company, has revealed it has acquired three sites and made two appointments to its senior management team in order to support further growth.
Private equity investor Calculus Capital has invested the majority share of £1.4m into Benito’s Hat, with the fast-casual Mexican chain planning to grow from four to 10 sites by the end of next year.
American-themed restaurant chain Ed's Easy Diner has announced it is on track to meet its target of opening 10 new sites this year as the company reveals strong growth in total sales and profits.
John Williams, executive chef at The Ritz, has launched a new tableside service menu for the legendary hotel’s main restaurant and has said the venue’s F&B offer is better now than it has ever been.
Food prices have overtaken rent and business rates in the list of major overheads facing UK restaurants and are now second only to staff wages, according to a new industry-wide report by reservations company Livebookings.
Des McDonald, former chief executive of Caprice Holdings, is coming back to the London restaurant scene with his first solo venture The Fish & Chip Shop opening in Islington next month.
Brandon Stephens, founder of fast-casual burrito restaurant group Tortilla, has told BigHospitality that expansion plans for the 11-strong chain remain 'roughly on track' as the company looks to develop a larger evening trade with a higher-quality...
St Ermin's hotel in Westminster has become the third UK hotel to join Marriott International's Autograph Collection of venues ending a relationship the property had with global operator Accor.
The vast majority of British hospitality businesses do not have a defibrillator, despite the impact the device has on cardiac arrest survival rates, according to a recent report.
Peruvian chefs Gastón Acurio and Virgilio Martínez, whose Lima-based restaurants both featured on this year’s World’s 50 Best list, have joined forces to launch a new restaurant in London later this year.
Brownsword Hotels has revealed a new brand name – The Gidleigh Collection - for its set of six country house hotels and Nick Halliday, the company’s chief executive, has said the majority of the property’s restaurants should be aiming to achieve Michelin-star...
The French chef, 56, operates restaurants all around the world, including a trio of three-Michelin-starred establishments. He has just received the Lifetime Achievement Award at The World’s 50 Best Restaurants.
Belvedere Vodka has launched a fully illuminated 175cl bottle which uses an encased LED to help drive interest and sales of the product in on-trade locations.
Shifts in landlord behaviour are making it harder for smaller players to get on the property ladder in the capital, writes Restaurant magazine's Joe Lutrario.
The Cut Tourism VAT Campaign is ‘disappointed’ that Culture Secretary Maria Miller and VisitBritain have both failed to realise the importance of reducing VAT for the sector after the national tourist board published its new tourism strategy earlier this...
Following the annual Breakfast Briefing by foodservice consultancy Horizons yesterday morning (1 May), BigHospitality has picked out five of the big trends and forecasts for the eating-out sector to help your business plough on through the recession.
As three Michelin-starred El Celler de Can Roca stole the world's best restaurant title from René Redzepi's Noma, BigHospitality was at The World's 50 Best Restaurants to chat to some of the chefs including Heston Blumenthal, Thomas Keller,...
Employees from the Millenial generation are more likely to stay with a company if they feel fulfilled in their jobs rather than if they were highly paid, a new survey has found.
