Chefs and staff members from 16 of the UK’s best restaurants are donning their kitchen whites for football kits to take part in a five-a-side football tournament in aid of leading charity, Farm Africa.
The Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee has today published a report welcoming the Government’s recent consultation on a Statutory Code of Conduct, but it warns that any more delays in bringing forward the legislation would be ‘unacceptable’.
Building work has begun on a 19-storey, 452-bedroom, five-star hotel - The InterContinental London The O2 - which is to be built in Greenwich as part of a £121m development scheme.
TV chef Gino D'Acampo has hinted that Gloucester could be the next location for his restaurant concept My Pasta Bar, which is due to open in London’s Fleet Street this week.
Food and drink packaging and disposables firm Tri-Star Packaging has become the exclusive UK distributor of PacknWood's eco-friendly packaging and disposable tableware.
Husband-and-wife Jahdre and Amanda Hayward have realised their long-held dream by opening their first restaurant within the grounds of a pub owned by the family in Epping, Essex.
The spirits market is now worth £8.7bn, up 6 per cent, with consumers happy to pay more for drinks in on-trade venues which use new products or innovative serving techniques, according to the 2013 First Drinks Annual Report.
Several hospitality businesses from across the UK have reported increased bookings and sales as a result of the recent spell of hot weather but with soaring temperatures set to continue restaurants, hotels and pubs have also been warned to make sure their...
Celebrity chef and Saturday Kitchen host James Martin is to open a restaurant - James Martin Manchester - within the Manchester 235 casino and entertainment venue.
Furniture specialist GO IN has unveiled a new 'all-in-one' stackable table for restaurants, pubs and hotels looking for a robust table that can be used outdoors and then stacked away easily when not needed.
London mayor Boris Johnson has outlined a vision to turn used cooking oil from London's restaurants and foodservice businesses into fuel for the city's buses.
Steve Holmes, managing director of Gondola Holdings-owned ASK Italian, has said he has recently started to believe his transformation strategy for the business will produce the desired results.
Nightclub operator Luminar says its efforts to turn the business around seem to be working as it posts a return to profit for its first full year of trade.
The Japanese owners of the Yashin Sushi & Bar restaurant off Kensington High Street have acquired a second site for the concept in South Kensington which will open in late August.
Review website TripAdvisor is launching an online platform which will allow all independent hotels and B&Bs to access services only previously available to major online travel agencies, booking engines and hotel chains.
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 DoubleTree by Hilton, Cotidie and Just Falafel.
The Government has dropped plans to introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol, instead pledging to take 'tougher action' on pubs and clubs running 'irresponsible' drinks promotions in a bid to tackle anti-social drinking.
JJ Goodman and James Hopkins, 2009 winners of the BBC's The Restaurant with Raymond Blanc, are opening their third venue in as many years under the London Cocktail Club brand, having secured a ground floor unit in Westminster skyscraper Portland...
El Celler de Can Roca head chef Joan Roca, whose restaurant topped this year's The World's 50 Best Restaurants list, is to appear at this year's Restaurant Show.
Life for Britain’s restaurant and pub groups is on the up with a third successive increase in like-for-like sales coming in June and total sales ahead by 4.8 per cent compared with the same time last year.
With London’s burger boom showing no signs of abating, BigHospitality took a trip to a beef cattle farm in Scotland to find out how one of the newest burger joints to hit the capital is championing the quality and traceability of its patties to stand...
Warewashing specialist Hobart has launched an environmentally-friendly range of detergents and rinse aids for use in its own equipment and other brands.
First Restaurant Group, the company owned by Harold and Mitch Tillman, is in talks with a couple of private equity groups regarding new investment to enable it to roll out its Harry Morgan Restaurant & Deli concept to up to 30 sites over the next...
Jamie's Italian, Wagamama and JD Wetherspoon have taken the top three places in a league table designed to show the best and worst restaurant and pub chains catering for children.
The majority of the UK’s chain restaurants and pubs are failing to provide adequate choices for children, a survey by The Soil Association and baby food company Organix has found.
Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Claridge's and The Ritz celebrated at the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts' Annual Awards of Excellence last night after members of their staff were declared winners of the three awards.
The team behind barbecue and music festival Grillstock have launched their first permanent restaurant in Bristol ahead of a planned rollout of the brand.
The Government is refusing to budge on its decision not to reduce VAT for the tourism and hospitality sectors despite numerous calls from across the industry and from some MPs to do so.
Dan Miller, one of the restaurateurs behind the Sambuca Restaurant group, has acquired popular Edinburgh Italian restaurant La Lanterna and has revealed he hopes to expand the brand and open 20 restaurants in Scotland in three years.
Scott Hunter and Maria Larsen, the young husband and wife behind three successful gastropubs in London, have teamed up with former Pitt Cue Co chef Neil Rankin for their fourth venture, Smokehouse, which opens in Islington next month.
The majority of hoteliers believe that investing in the latest technology, such as remote check-in and in-room ordering systems, will help boost their business, yet few say they have the budget to do so.
Starboard Atlantic Hotels, a joint venture between Starboard Hotels and real estate firm Union Hanover Securities, has purchased land on the site of the former London 2012 Olympic Park to build an 18-storey hotel complex.
The competition from TV broadcasters to supply live sport in pubs is heating up, with Sky freezing the price of its Sky Ultimate package and BT Sport providing a range of adverts and PoS material in support of its new commercial packages.
One year on from hosting the London 2012 Olympics, Britain’s tourism industry is booming. The latest figures from the ONS International Passenger Survey show we’ve had the best first-half of a year since 2008, with tourism spend at an all-time high.
The Vineyard Group, owner of The Vineyard at Stockcross, has announced plans to re-open the King's Head Hotel in Cirencester next year after being awarded the management contract to run it.
Soho House Group, the bar, restaurant and private members club company headed by Nick Jones, is planning to open three new sites under its fledgling Dirty Burger brand in London over the coming months.
Catering equipment manufacturer Burco has launched an innovative ‘Plug and Go’ countertop range of cooking units for chefs looking to make the most of limited kitchen space and reduce overheads.
The team behind food start-up business support programme Kitchenette are to launch a summer pop-up in Islington which will give potential entrepreneurs the chance to hear from some of the industry's success stories including MeatLiquor founder Yianni...
Less than a year after launching its first restaurant on Regent Street, Japan Centre Group has doubled up on its Shoryu Ramen concept with a permanent site replacing its pop-up venue on Denman Street in Soho.
The lineup for the Annual Hotel Conference (AHC) 2013 has been revealed and Kevin Roberts, chief executive of Saatchi & Saatchi, will open the event, while Robert Cook, chief executive of De Vere Hotels and De Vere Village Urban Resorts, will be the...
Revolution bar operator Inventive Leisure has announced it is to spend £6.6m on rolling out a new format for its venues following successful trials in eight sites.
With less than a week to go before Mark Sargeant takes over the F&B operations at the Great Northern Hotel in King’s Cross, the former Claridge's chef has admitted that he will be staying firmly out of the kitchen as he looks to concentrate on...
Consolis Payments has launched a small, low-cost EPoS system for small and medium sized businesses to enable customers to pay bills in a variety of ways.
The seafood maestro and co-owner of The Seahorse in Dartmouth has just opened a second site of his casual seafood brand, Rockfish Seafood and Chips, in Plymouth.
Leo Rodley, executive chef at 76 Portland Place, has launched a campaign - Real Food - in order to encourage event catering chefs to showcase their use of quality, seasonal produce and change the negative stereotypes surrounding meeting and event food.
Southern-inspired American restaurant group The Diner has acquired a site in Old Spitalfields Market for a seventh restaurant which is set to open this August.
Thistle Hotels is on a mission to become the UK’s leading meetings, incentives, conferences, and exhibitions (MICE) brand with the announcement of a multi-million-pound investment into two of its largest properties and a new conference-focused F&B...
