Gaucho’s more accessible little brother CAU has carefully refined its premium casual offering and is now beefing-up its presence in the south of England with northern expansion planned for next year
Whitbread’s family restaurant chain Brewers Fayre has announced a partnership with DC Thomson Consumer Products which will see the famous children’s magazine The Beano having an impact in over 150 of their UK restaurant sites from this month.
Unlocking Britain’s regional tourism potential requires playing on London’s popularity and promoting the country’s transport system, according to research by Olive insight.
Spain’s La Sala restaurant is coming to the UK for the first time and has announced Chigwell as its location of choice, with plans to open by the end of September.
Attracting and retaining Generation Y as staff and customers will require a fundamental shift in the way hospitality businesses think and operate, according to futurist Dr Graeme Codrington.
Charity for the hospitality industry People 1st is running this year’s Independents’ Day campaign which celebrates the contribution small businesses make to the UK. Previously focusing on retail outlets, 2014 is the first year the hospitality industry...
The biggest challenge for hospitality businesses is not financing or regulation, but finding the right people, according to experts speaking at the Hospitality & Tourism Summit on 5 June.
Wahaca, the Mexican street food restaurant concept led by Thomasina Miers and Mark Selby, is to launch a new fast-casual format called DF/Mexico next month in London’s Spitalfields.
The government has announced the formation of a Tourism Council which will see regulators and industry work together for the growth of the UK hospitality and tourism trade.
The British-born chef who ran Vue de Monde in Melbourne for eight and half years before setting up the Tippling Club in Singapore talks about pairing drinks with food, serving £30 cocktails and making cauliflower cheese using sound waves.
Italian restaurant group San Carlo has announced plans to open two more restaurants before the end of the year, Cicchetti in Covent Garden and a Fumo site in Manchester, their largest yet.
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. has today announced new UK expansion plans and has signed a dual-hotel development in East London’s Tobacco Dock with the Fawzia Mubarak Al-Hassawi Group. The two new hotels will open under Starwood’s Aloft...
The Morgans Hotel Group’s Mondrian London hotel at Sea Containers, due to launch this summer, has revealed plans for its bar and restaurant, which will be headed up by Ryan Chetiyawardana and New York chef Seamus Mullen.
In the wake of the government's announcement on a new statutory code for pubs, the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR) has called for more action to encourage growth and increase jobs in the licensed hospitality trade.
The government’s decision last month to relax planning controls for hotels wanting to convert to a school, academy or nursery is reflective of a profitability divide within the industry.
Chef Dominic Chapman, who earned a Michelin star during his time as head chef at The Royal Oak, has signed a lease to take over The Beehive, an Enterprise Inns pub in White Waltham, Berkshire.
Communications infrastructure and media services company Arqiva released their Wireless Nation Report yesterday (3 June) which shows unconnected hospitality businesses could be losing out on customer loyalty, with 87 per cent of customers claiming to...
Restaurateurs are banking on home-cooked authenticity to bring the variety of cuisines from Greece, the Levant and the rest of the Middle East to UK tables, writes Joe Lutrario in the June issue of Restaurant Magazine.
London’s smaller restaurant, hotel and pub businesses are being invited to join Boris Johnson’s Food Save scheme, which has already helped 15 businesses save more than £100,000 a year while preventing 70 stone of food going to waste.
With less than two weeks to go before the World Cup kicks off in Brazil, operators should ensure they are prepared to avoid pitfalls – particularly when it comes to absences and temporary staff training.
Glasgow is seeing fresh life breathed into its dining scene this year, with the recent renovation to its Central station bringing new eateries, including the Glendola Leisure Group’s Alston Bar & Beef which opened last week. On the outskirts of the...
