The Columbo Group has acquired two sites in East London - The Cat and Mutton in Hackney and Bar Music Hall on Curtain Road, Shoreditch - growing its restaurant, pub and live music venues portfolio to eight.
'Serial hotelier' Andy Townsend is chief executive of Legacy Hotels and Resorts, the hotel management company he set up in 2005 following a stint as a divisional director at Macdonald Hotels. The father of five has worked in the industry for...
The recent flurry of small fine-dining venues in London looks set to continue into 2014 with the opening of a new, 20-cover ‘create your own tasting menu’ restaurant in Marylebone next week.
A leading drinks flavour expert claims bartenders and mixologists will need to ‘think outside the box’ if they want to stand out from the ever-growing crowd of bars and restaurants serving cocktails in 2014.
UK hotels can look forward to positive trading in 2014 with an increased demand from leisure and corporate guests, transactional activity set to improve and finance becoming more easily available.
With immigration rules closing the door on all but the most senior chefs hoping to join the UK restaurant industry, there’s a crisis simmering in the kitchens of the nation’s curry houses. A recently launched initiative from the Asian Restaurants Skills...
Restaurant magazine’s annual Chefs’ Choice Awards reveal the finest products, suppliers, brands and equipment gracing kitchens across the land. The winners have been voted for by professional chefs from every sector of the industry.
Disposable packaging manufacturer Huhtamaki has launched a new range of food-to-go containers for caterers to take advantage of the growing lunchtime market.
Chef Kenny Atkinson is looking to develop the skills of young people in the industry by recruiting five apprentices for his new restaurant House of Tides.
New Moon Pub Company, founded by North West chef David Mooney and former Living Ventures director Paul Newman, is opening its fifth venue in three years.
Members of the hospitality industry are being urged to register their interest in stem cell donation to help save the life of a 16 month old girl with a rare form of Leukaemia.
Leonid Shutov, the man behind Soho’s Bob Bob Ricard, is planning to open ‘London’s largest luxury restaurant’ next year, having acquired the former Just St James site in Mayfair.
NatWest and RBS have launched a £250m interest free loan fund to help out hospitality businesses who have been affected by the recent floods and strong winds.
Hoteliers in Scotland experienced a 6.3 per cent increase in total revenues per available room (TrevPAR) in November, with a 6.5 per cent rise in gross operating profit per available room (GOPPAR) representing 14 consecutive months of year-on-year increases,...
Increasing consumer confidence will drive growth in the UK restaurant sector through 2014, according to industry experts, but will be tempered by the continued squeeze on operators’ profit margins.
Branded coffee shop sales rose by 9.3 per cent last year with 5,531 outlets turning over a total of £2.6bn according to latest figures from Allegra Strategies.
The festive period appeared to be one of the strongest on record for many restaurant and pub groups across the UK, despite the recent challenges to footfall caused by the extreme weather.
Adam Bennett, head chef at The Cross at Kenilworth, is to represent the UK in the Bocuse d'Or for a second time after winning a cook-off in Birmingham yesterday.
It is now compulsory in Wales and there are calls for the rest of the UK to follow suit. But opponents of the current system say it is inconsistent and open to misconception. Should all restaurants and takeaways be required by law to display their food...
The toastie, barbecue restaurants and Greek wine are all tipped to make it big in 2014 according to predictions by the team at Restaurant magazine, whose first edition of the year is out on Wednesday 8 January.
Hotels should expect to see an increase in the number of bookings from corporate guests this year after a survey showed that 76 per cent of business travel buyers will have more money to spend in this area in 2014.
Giaconda Dining Room, the family-run café in central London, has begun the New Year under a new guise with the launch of La Giaconda Restaurant, Café and Bar on the site.
The managing director of the Deer Park hotel in Honiton, Devon, said he will continue to invest in the property through 2014 to help reach the business's aim of becoming 'one of the leading hotel and wedding venues in the South West'.
Hotel amenity products supplier Eves has launched a new antibacterial spray which allows hospitality business operators to clean table tops while ensuring their furniture is undamaged.
The heavy rain and high winds which have swept the UK over the last month have had a devastating impact on Christmas trade for a number of hotels with one badly flooded hotel forced into voluntary liquidation.
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) has today launched a campaign to help the pub industry tackle the post-festive ‘hangover by promoting the benefits of pubs to the British economy and encouraging more people to use their local in January.
Marcus Wareing is to shut his two Michelin-starred restaurant Marcus Wareing at The Berkeley for more than two months to allow for renovation work which will enable him to re-launch it with a new focus and new name in March.
With the start of the new year Steve Clarke of the Brilliant Laundry Group gives his advice on how best hoteliers, restaurateurs and publicans can manage their laundry service.
Some of the brightest business minds from the café bar industry will descend on London's Olympia this May as the Caffè Culture Show returns for its ninth year.
Seafood supplier Young’s has partnered with renowned fish & chip shop operators Mark and Pete Petrou to launch its first restaurant in Cambridge at the end of the month.
What does 2014 hold for the hospitality industry? We’ve looked into our crystal ball (and spoken to a few industry experts) to predict some of the big trends and developments in the world of restaurants, hotels and pubs over the next 12 months.
David Moore, the man behind Michelin-starred London restaurants L’Autre Pied and Pied à Terre, is teaming up with Sean Martin – who revived the Northumberland Arms in Fitzrovia and the Barley Mow in Marylebone - to open a new US smokehouse-style concept,...
Managed pub and bar operator TCG has reported a sales boost for the ‘movable feast’ that was Christmas 2013, with an average 7 per cent uplift in turnover across its estate thanks to ‘a definite upturn in consumer confidence’.
Restaurateurs have figured highly in the Queen's New Year Honours list with Rex Restaurants' Chris Corbin and Jeremy King both awarded an OBE and Sweet Mandarin owners Lisa and Helen Tse given MBEs.
