From surprise restaurant closures, new approaches to tackling the chef shortage and signs the burger boom could be going bust, 2017 was another busy year for the hospitality sector. We look back at some of the biggest stories of the last 12 months.
Craig Johnston, sous chef at the Michelin-starred The Royal Oak gastropub in Maidenhead, has been crowned the 2017 champion of MasterChef: The Professionals.
The team behind Kingly Court-based gourmet kebab restaurant Le Bab is believed to be planning to launch a new venture in London’s Covent Garden next year.
With new policy coming in the spring that will see restaurants with a strong delivery offer having to apply for separate planning permission, Caroline Entwistle at law firm Royds Withy King says it's time businesses got realistic about delivery.
Korean restaurateur Linda Lee first began building her Korean empire in London in 2005, when she launched KOBA in Fitzrovia. Since then, she has built three brands (one of which operates at four sites) and this month opened Mee Market, a Korean deli and...
Madame Wong, the soon-to-open restaurant in Bloomberg Arcade from Andrew Wong, could have a strong delivery focus as a brand in the future, according to one of its backers.
Chris Miller started consulting for restaurants in return for free food before launching venture capital business White Rabbit Fund last year. The former numbers guy for Nick Jones is now a backer of restaurants, including Island Poke and Kricket as well...
Quique Dacosta, chef-owner of the eponymous three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Denia, Spain, has lined up a first site in London for InPaella, his new premium paella concept, backed by the team behind the Iberica chain of restaurants.
The much-anticipated London outpost of the award-winning fine dining Indian restaurant in New Delhi and New York has just opened in Mayfair. And it doesn't disappoint.
Largely under-the-radar chef Duncan Ray cooks solo on a domestic stove but he’s hotly tipped to be the man who will finally bag a Michelin star for Brighton and Hove.
Times are tough. Only last month the Coffer Peach Business Tracker revealed that the UK was continuing to spend less on eating out across the branded restaurant, bar and pub sectors.
Bar restaurant group Drake & Morgan has reported a significant increase in turnover compared to the previous year’s performance, driven by the acquisition of wine brand Corney & Barrow.
German and Japanese-made products dominate the UK knife market, but British artisans are fighting back with beautiful blades that have now become status symbols for top chefs
Technological advances have been driving and impacting diner behaviours over the past few years with increasing significance. Restaurant magazine gathered a group of operators to discuss how diner behaviour has changed, what trends may emerge in the coming...
Honest Burgers is starting to roll out patties made from scratch at a number of its restaurants after investing £600,000 in setting up its own butchery.
Since Duddell's first opened in Hong Kong's Shanghai Tang, it has become a favourite in the art world. Its first international outpost is now open, in London Bridge.
The UK’s huge appetite for burgers didn’t show any signs of slowing this year, with burgers making up five of the top 10 most-ordered dishes in 2017 via online delivery service Deliveroo.
The founders of Wahaca have warned that limitations on EU migration after Brexit could leave the group struggling to find long-term staff to fill senior positions.
The majority of customers are satisfied if their takeaway food delivery arrives within one hour but few are happy to wait beyond this point, MCA data has shown.
Food and drink inflation is becoming less volatile as it approaches its predicted peak but the industry will still be affected by high prices of certain commodities, says new research.
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