Consumer spending on eating and drinking out rose by 36.7% during June compared to the same period in 2019, the latest card transaction data from Barclaycard has shown.
Health Secretary Sajid Javid has confirmed that England will move to Step 4 of its plans to ease Coronavirus restrictions on the so-called ‘Freedom Day’ of 19 July, but that businesses and large events will be encouraged to use vaccine passports.
An extension to the relaxation of rules related to takeaway pints and al fresco dining are at the centre of Boris Johnson’s plan to 'level up' the country.
The Government is reportedly considering plans to introduce so-called 'vaccine passports' for hospitality in the autumn, despite a recent review concluding there should be no legal requirements for their use.
London developers are giving millennials a new choice of affordable areas to live, work and play - and fresh opportunities for hospitality as a result.
Indian hotelier Roop Partap Choudhary will open his debut restaurant in London this September that takes inspiration from his childhood travels throughout India with his parents.
Gino D'Acampo opening a restaurant in London, Tom Kitchin's restaurant group facing allegations of bullying, and the challenges of the self-isolation rules for hospitality business are among this week's most read stories.
The family-run team behind highly-regarded Italian restaurant Il Portico in London's Kensington have launched a nearby sister site that focuses on the food of Italy's Emilia-Romagna region.
The boost to pubs fuelled by England reaching the UEFA Euro 2020 final will be 'greatly hindered' by trading restrictions, the British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) has warned.
Brighton-based premium fried chicken brand The Bok Shop is to launch two new restaurants within four weeks of each other, beginning in Hastings at the end of the month.
Roberta Hall-McCarron is to relocate her bijou Edinburgh bistro The Little Chartroom to a larger premises and use the original site to launch a new concept later this year.
Former Dinings Harcourt and Roka chef Collin Hudston is to lead a new restaurant launching within Japanese/Nordic retail and dining space Pantechnicon in London's Belgravia later this month.
The end of Covid restrictions on 19 July has been dismissed as 'a complete fallacy' unless self isolation rules currently forcing hundreds of hospitality businesses to close are changed.
Food and drink prices continued their upward trend in May with basket costs up by 2.5% on April, the latest edition of the CGA Prestige Foodservice Price Index shows.
Big Mamma's flair for grandiose ostentation remains undimmed with its third London restaurant, which combines glitz, glamour and decadence with a dash of Roman Catholicism.
Celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo is to open an ‘upmarket’ Italian restaurant in the space that was once home to Zela London within The Strand-based ME London hotel.
Chris Leach and David Carter are planning to launch a second iteration of their nose-to-tail, British-Italian restaurant Manteca in London's Shoreditch.
Hospitality groups including Martin Williams' Rare Restaurants and City Pub Group are planning to continue with mask-wearing rules and social distancing beyond 19 July.
Greek street food player The Athenian is set to launch three new delivery kitchens across London, as it begins to rebuild its estate following the departure of co-founder Neo Christodoulou.
Influential Edinburgh vegetarian restaurant Hendersons is to live on following the acquisition of a new site in the Scottish capital’s Bruntsfield area.
Hospitality could face a 'cancelled' summer after the Government announced that no changes will be made to Covid self isolation rules until the middle of next month.
The majority of Bristol-founded healthy fast food chain Friska has been sold by administrations Mazars LLP to a third party, with founders Ed Brown and Griff Holland taking two of the groups sites to operate under a different brand.
Simon Rogan's Aulis restaurant in Soho is to close for a refit in August before reopening with a tweaked menu format that will see its all-in pricing policy dropped.
A hospitality recruitment drive for the hospitality and tourism sectors in Scotland has been launched in a bid to encourage more young people into the sector as a result of shortfall due to Brexit.
Almost a third of consumers plan to eat out less frequently than they did pre-pandemic, according to the Lumina Intelligence UK Eating Out Market Report 2021.
Hospitality venues will no longer be required to only operate table service and nightclubs can finally reopen when England moves to the last phase of its Coronavirus lockdown roadmap.
Fully immersive DC-inspired multi-faceted restaurant and bar venue Park Row will launch on 10 August with Karl O’Dell, former head chef at Texture, and former Savoy Grill head chef Kim Woodward as its executive chefs.
Nomadic kitchen concept Hot 4 U has been one of the pandemic’s breakout success stories, making waves in London with its freewheeling approach and wildly eclectic cooking.
Forced to flee his homeland in 2015, Syrian chef Imad Alarnab has finally opened his first London restaurant, offering a window to a cuisine little explored in the capital.
Fledgling vegan fast food brand Ready Burger has ended its crowdfunding campaign having successfully raised nearly £2m to help fuel its plans for 'rapid' growth across the UK.
Boris Johnson is expected to confirm the lifting of most remaining Covid-19 restrictions in England will go ahead on 19 July with social distancing and restrictions on bar ordering scrapped.
Hospitality Action is partnering with the hospitality industry’s main trade associations, professional bodies and charities to create a National Hospitality Day.
Two senior members of staff at Tom Kitchin's restaurant group have been suspended amid accusations of former employees experiencing physical abuse and harassment.
