Today’s announcement that the first luxury Chinese hotel brand to open oversees will be in London has been welcomed by Mayor Boris Johnson as ‘yet another sign of the soaring global confidence’ in the capital.
David Colcombe, chef director of Opus Restaurant in Birmingham, has opened a new café under the Opus brand in the city and has said coffee shops could be a better option than brasseries and pubs for restaurateurs looking to expand.
In this exclusive gallery, BigHospitality rounds up some of the latest movers and shakers in the hospitality industry. The past month has seen a number of new appointments at hotels, restaurants, pubs including The Midland, One Canada Square and Brakspear.
James Baer, managing director of successful community pub operator Amber Taverns, has told BigHospitality he believes the company's wet-led pub model could work in areas in the south of the country.
Living Ventures has announced it is to open a new bar and kitchen in Manchester which will be connected to its modern Australian restaurant Australasia.
To celebrate the first ever National Waiters Day, BigHospitality decided to discover a little bit more about one of the most important front-of-house restaurant roles - the maître d’. For this exclusive video we spent a morning with Bar Boulud's...
