Beer Academy sommelier Nigel Sadler has published a book to simplify the food and beer pairing process for those interested in matching dishes with beer.
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...
American entrepreneur Ian Schrager, the man behind five star properties Sanderson and St Martins Lane, is returning to London for the first time in 15 years to launch The London Edition – a brand he conceived in partnership with Marriott International.
The Society of Vintners - a consortium of family-owned, independent wine sellers – has launched a new range of wines aimed exclusively at the on-trade.
Shopping centre giant Intu has submitted an application to refurbish two of the areas within Intu Eldon Square shopping centre in Newcastle, with plans to create a ‘destination dining quarter’ as part of the £17m development.
Yorkshire-based bakers and pâtissiers Just Desserts has created a range of individual tarts for foodservice buyers which will be launched later this month.
Restaurateur Rebecca Mascarenhas and chef Theo Randall have announced a new business partnership to launch Bibo – a modern Italian tratorria based on the site of Mascarenhas’s Cantinetta restaurant in Putney later this year.
Multi-cuisine buffet restaurant chain Cosmo has revealed its latest site in Derby will become a flagship for the group and will be replicated in at least five further sites.
London Mayor Boris Johnson has pledged his support for the capital’s small food businesses by backing the pilot scheme of an innovative new programme which aims to create more jobs and reinvigorate the high streets.
Instant coffee giant Nescafé has launched Nescafé Azera out-of-home – the brand’s first instant barista-style coffee for hotels, restaurants, pubs and cafés across the UK.
Marco Pierre White is to rebrand his Frankie’s Bar & Grill restaurant in Hoylake as Marco’s New York Italian in a deal with hotel and restaurant development firm Sanguine Hospitality.
Nick Lawson, a former general manager at Hotel du Vin Harrogate, has created a new boutique hotel company called Bonne Nuit, a brand he is aiming to roll out across the UK after establishing it at The Balmoral hotel in Harrogate.
Hoteliers are being advised to make their services more female friendly after figures from Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) found that the number of women staying alone at hotels has risen more than 53 per cent in the last year.
Restaurateur Jill Stein and Adnams chief executive and chairman Andy Wood have been awarded OBEs in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list while chefs Geoffrey Acott and Clare Smyth and Drake & Morgan founder Jillian Maclean were made...
Maxwell's restaurant group is to open Joe's Southern Kitchen & Bar next month on the Covent Garden site which was formerly home to the group's Navajo Joe restaurant.
London is one of the world's fastest-growing destinations for consumers seeking out a stay in a luxury hotel, according to a report released at the first Luxury Hospitality summit held in Switzerland.
Chef and pop-up restaurant expert Carl Clarke is to open his first permanent restaurant when he launches Rock Lobsta at the Mahiki London nightclub next month.
The chef opened Simpsons in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, more than 20 years ago, relocating the Michelin-starred favourite to Birmingham in 2004. Recently, Antona was instrumental in his head chef Adam Bennett’s successful fourth-place performance at the...
The Oxford Thames Four Pillars Hotel has completed a £2m refurbishment which has created a new conservatory and added 22 double bedrooms to the Henley Road venue.
Jurys Inn, which is currently in the process of ploughing £1m into refurbishing its meeting rooms, has created a new dedicated Group Meetings & Events Manager position.
Shaun Gray and Steve Novak, the owners of Cattle Grid, the fast-casual steakhouse chain, have secured a first site for their chicken-led concept called Poulet Rouge in south London, BigHospitality's sister publication M&C Report has learnt.
De Vere Venues, the meetings and conference division of hotel company De Vere, has been given the contract to manage golf and conference centre East Sussex National.
The Government is not taking the hospitality industry seriously enough and should take greater notice of the UK’s fourth largest industry to help drive economic growth.
The Bridge of Orchy hotel in Argyll has re-opened after a £1.5m renovation, partly funded by the Bank of Scotland, which has tripled the size of the Scottish venue.
The Luminar Group has announced it is to spend £1m refurbishing its Oceana Bristol venue to create a nightclub which will become a 'blueprint' for the operator's entire estate.
After starting the UK burrito boom up north, Barburrito co-founder Morgan Davies is targeting London. He told Restaurant magazine's Stefan Chomka why he believes he’s in a strong position to take it by storm.
Members of workers union Unite are calling for leaders within the hospitality industry to address issues over pay throughout the sector before creating another 300,000 jobs.
May delivered a 1.2 per cent increase in like-for-like sales for restaurant and pub groups but operators have been warned that the trading environment remains 'fragile' and will become more competitive with the arrival of several brands making...
To coincide with its 150th anniversary, English gin distiller Hayman Distillers is relaunching its range of Hayman's Gin in order to better emphasise the company's history as a family distiller.
Scottish brewer and pub operator BrewDog has topped the 2013 Zolfo Cooper Profit Tracker, a list of the 50 fastest-growing restaurant and bar companies.
Former lawyer and professional rugby player Guglielmo Arnulfo is following his lifelong passion for cooking with the launch of his first Italian restaurant, Acciuga, on Kensington High Street next week.
Hotel Inspector and Country House Rescue star Ruth Watson is still on the lookout for pubs, restaurants and tourist attractions that have suffered from bad online reviews for a new TV series which seeks to find out ‘who's right and who's wrong’.
It has been revealed that the luxury Guoman Hotels brand will eventually be retired following news that Guoman Hotel Management has been rebranded as glh.
The Quarter Group, which owns and operates three cafés and restaurants in London, is set to launch the Royal Quarter Café near Buckingham Palace later this month.
Offering discounted entry is failing to push up visitor numbers to nightclubs according to a report by Mintel which forecasts the value of the sector to drop by a further £200m to £1.1bn by 2017.
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) will announce that the UK’s hospitality and tourism industries will create over 30,000 new job opportunities for young people by 2015 as the organisation hosts its annual Summit in London later today (11 June).
Celebrity chef James Martin, host of BBC TV show Saturday Kitchen, has scooped the Special Award at the Craft Guild of Chefs (CGC) Awards 2013 which also honoured Lima restaurant and The Ivy's April Partridge.
Following the success of Zafran Food Company’s saffron and rosewater ice cream, the company has brought out a pure rosewater flavour to complement the range and to offer a lighter dessert option.
Conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain YO! Sushi is looking to ‘reinvent the burger’ with a heavy investment in kitchen equipment and an extensive staff training program to help deliver a departure from its traditional products with the YO! Burger.
