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John Burton-Race joins Boisdale restaurants

05-Nov-2010 By Lorraine Heller

Chef John Burton-Race has teamed up with the Boisdale group of restaurants, where he will work alongside head chef at The Lamb at Hindon, Simon Harris

Good Pub Guide criticised for entry charges

02-Nov-2010 By Jo Bruce

Award winning licensees in the Good Pub Guide 2011 have criticised the guide's decision to introduce charges for the book's main entries

Pub closures blamed on consumer shift to ‘continental eating’

23-Aug-2010 By Becky Paskin

A new café or restaurant will open for every pub or bar that closes over the next three years, as consumers adopt a more ‘European’ lifestyle

Mitchells & Butlers sells non-core pub package in £373m deal

20-Aug-2010 By Martyn Leek

Mitchells & Butlers, the managed pub operator, has sold 333 of its non-core pubs for £373m to Stonegate Pub Company, a new vehicle backed by TDR Capital, the private equity firm.

World Cup boosts trade for Enterprise Inns

20-Jul-2010 By Martyn Leek

The World Cup and recent spate of good weather has given a boost to trade at Enterprise Inns (ETI), the leased and tenanted pub operator revealed this morning

Travelodge acquires 52 hotels from Mitchells & Butlers

15-Jul-2010 By Becky Paskin

Travelodge has acquired 52 budget hotels from restaurant and pub operator Mitchells & Butlers for £91m, boosting its estate to 452 UK properties

Christopher’s American Grill sold to Caparo Group chairman

05-Jul-2010 By Becky Paskin

Christopher’s American Bar & Grill in Covent Garden has been sold to Ambar Paul, chairman of engineering company, Caparo Group for an undisclosed sum

Gondola Holdings tops R200 list once more

30-Jun-2010 By Becky Paskin

Gondola Holdings has once again retained the top spot in the R200, Restaurant magazine’s annual list of the top restaurant operators in the UK

The Capital Pub Company buys rival Tomahawk for £5m

24-Jun-2010 By Martyn Leek

The Capital Pub Company has bought rival Tomahawk for £5m, as it looks to extend its estate to the 50 pub mark.

St. John hotel to open in West End in September

18-Jun-2010 By Becky Paskin

St. John co-owners Fergus Henderson and Trevor Gulliver have released further details about the St. John Hotel, which is due to open in London’s Chinatown in late September

Cumbria's Swan Hotel re-opens six months after floods

07-May-2010 By Emma Eversham

The Swan Hotel & Spa at Newby Bridge in Cumbria has re-opened for business six months after floods swept the county

Archangel restaurant with rooms to open in Somerset

04-May-2010 By Stefan Chomka

Archangel, a restaurant with rooms that is being renovated from an ancient coaching inn, will open early next month in the Somerset town of Frome

Cumbrian flood-struck Lakeside Hotel re-opens

21-Apr-2010 By Emma Eversham

The Lakeside Hotel, forced to close for business when floods struck Cumbria in November last year, has re-opened following three months of restoration work

An Lochan restaurant, hotel and inn seek new owner

10-Mar-2010 By Emma Eversham

The An Lochan restaurant in Glasgow, along with the estate's hotel in Tighnabruaich and inn in Perthshire, are seeking new owners after being placed on the market

The Peat Inn wins restaurant of the year at Scottish Restaurant Awards

23-Feb-2010 By Emma Eversham

The Peat Inn in Fife has been voted Restaurant of the Year at The Scottish Restaurant Awards where Leith's Restaurant Martin Wishart and Kings Wark pub also picked up accolades

Chameleon Pub Company expands to seven sites

23-Feb-2010 By Emma Eversham

North of England-based pub operator Chameleon Pub Company is continuing with expansion plans with the purchase of its seventh site, a former Table Table pub in Lancaster.

Albert Roux to open two more restaurants in Scotland

11-Feb-2010 By Emma Eversham

Albert Roux is to open another two restaurants under his name at hotels in Scotland following the success of his first Scottish restaurant Chez Roux at the Rocpool Reserve hotel in Inverness

Customer service and value 'most important' for diners

03-Feb-2010 By Emma Eversham

Restaurant, hotel and pub operators are being encouraged to monitor their staff’s delivery of customer service after a survey found that almost half have no system in place to do so

Emily Hodgson opens second dining pub

03-Feb-2010 By Emma Eversham

Emily Hodgson, owner of The Rose pub in Fulham, will open her second pub, The Hillgate in Notting Hill later today

Mark Fuller’s Inn on the Green hotel to get Sanctum rebrand

03-Feb-2010 By Becky Paskin

Mark Fuller, founder of Sanctum Soho hotel in London, is to relaunch Inn on the Green in Cookham Dean, Berkshire in April

Recovery predicted in hospitality property market for 2010

15-Jan-2010 By Emma Eversham

Property values in the restaurant, hotel and pub sectors fell sharply in 2009, but there was an increase in transactions on the previous year as operators snapped up bargains across all three sectors

Whitbread to open second 'green' Premier Inn

11-Jan-2010 By Emma Eversham

Whitbread has unveiled plans to open its second 'green' Premier Inn and its first low-carbon restaurant in Burgess Hill in West Sussex this autumn

After hours with...Emily Hodgson

06-Jan-2010 By Emma Eversham

BigHospitality catches up with one of hospitality's top achievers for the lowdown on her career and thoughts about the industry

Chef Bruno Loubet to open restaurant at The Zetter Hotel

18-Dec-2009 By Becky Paskin

Bruno Loubet is to open an 85-cover restaurant at boutique hotel The Zetter in Clerkenwell, in February next year

Gordon Ramsay sells restaurants at The London in New York

03-Dec-2009 By Becky Paskin

Gordon Ramsay has handed control of Maze and his eponymous restaurant at The London in New York back to the hotel, nine months after doing the same at his Prague, Paris and LA restaurants

Restaurant Nathan Outlaw to close in Fowey

27-Nov-2009 By Emma Eversham

Nathan Outlaw's eponymous restaurant at the Marina Hotel in Fowey will close for good tomorrow and will reopen at St Enodoc Hotel in nearby Rock next year

Business Profile: Rupert Clevely of Geronimo Inns

05-Nov-2009 By Paul Wootton

Geronimo Inns has eschewed a one-size-fits-all approach to pubs, opting instead to tailor each of its 28 sites to its location. And it's working, according to its founder Rupert Clevely

Hospitality businesses to get music licence refunds

22-Oct-2009 By Emma Eversham

Hotels, restaurants and pubs who have paid over the odds for music licences since PPL put fees up three years ago will get refunds after a tribunal decision found that tariffs had been set too high

Fuller Thomson buys seventh site

01-Oct-2009 By Marta Karcz

Scottish bar and restaurant operator, Fuller Thomson, has enlarged its estate to seven with the purchase of the freehold interest of the Doghouse in Dundee

Guest chefs at The Pass and pub quizzes at Giraffe

11-Sep-2009 By Emma Eversham

BigHospitality rounds up the promotions, offers and marketing ideas being run by restaurants, hotels and pubs across the country.

Thinking outside the box: alternative ways to use your outside space

06-Aug-2009 By Emma Eversham

Whether you have access to a tiny courtyard or acres of land, there are plenty of ways you can utilise the space outside your restaurant, hotel or pub. BigHospitality speaks to a handful of operators who are doing just that.

Whitbread to sell four pub restaurants

27-Jul-2009 By Emma Eversham

The group puts three standalone Brewers Fayres and one Table Table on the market to focus on its strategy of running restaurants with hotels alongside

Pub and restaurant chains show growth as independents suffer

22-Jul-2009 By Becky Paskin

New figures show Britain’s leading pub and restaurant groups continue to hold steady, as smaller, independently run businesses succumb to the recession

British Hospitality Association publishes tips code

20-Jul-2009 By Emma Eversham

The BHA publishes its new code of practice for restaurant service charges and urges restaurants and hotels to adopt it as soon as possible

Hotel dining is dead, says industry expert

09-Jul-2009 By Becky Paskin

Hotels have been criticised for having ‘sterile’ restaurants by an industry expert, who claims hotel dining is dead

R150 list reveals large restaurant groups confident about future

01-Jul-2009 By Stefan Chomka

Many of the UK’s biggest restaurant operators plan to expand next year, despite the recession, Restaurant magazine’s R150 research has revealed

Reuben Brothers to take over PBR?

30-Jun-2009 By Rosie Birkett

Property investors the Reuben Brothers are in exclusive talks to acquire troubled bar and restaurant chain Premium Bars & Restaurants for the sum of £52 million

Double points at Choice hotels and picnics at YO! Sushi

26-Jun-2009 By Emma Eversham

Find out what marketing ideas hotels and restaurants are doing to help boost trade in BigHospitalitys Friday round-up

Technology: Could you improve your bookings system?

03-Jun-2009 By Jackie Mitchell

BigHospitality finds some of the electronic systems on the market that will help you manage your reservations better and could also help the rest of your business run more smoothly

Peach Pubs seeks partner for 11th site

27-May-2009 By Emma Eversham

Pub company Peach searches for a joint venture partner to develop a new gastropub site it has bought in Leicester

Absolute Leisure sites for sale after firm goes into administration

13-May-2009 By Emma Eversham

A restaurant in Newcastle and a hotel in Whitby are among the Absolute Leisure sites being sold off after the company was placed into administration

Glasgow’s Parkville Hotel undergoes £650k revamp

29-Jan-2009 By Becky Paskin

The Parkville Hotel in Glasgow is to undergo a £650k refurbishment project to add a 100-seater restaurant and events space to the premises

Whitbread and M&B in restaurant and hotel swap

31-Jul-2008 By Emma Eversham

Whitbread acquires 21 Express by Holiday Inn hotels from Mitchells & Butlers in exchange for 44 pub restaurants.

Christie & Co report South West hotel boom

27-Jun-2008 By Emma Eversham

Hotel sales in the South West are continuing to stay strong despite reports of a weakening economy, according to business agents Christie & Co.

Gary Rhodes to open two new restaurants in Dorset

09-Jun-2008 By Becky Paskin

The celebrity chef will open two restaurants in the area, to coincide with major restoration projects on harbour-side hotels.

Urban Inns hails revival of the British inn

23-May-2008 By Emma Eversham

Entrepreneurs unveil plans to build modernised inn chain

Unchained Restaurants Adds to Portfolio

07-Apr-2008 By Claire Miller

The Northern restaurant group Unchained Restaurants continues to grow with the purchase of Clovenfords country hotel

No Fools at The Swan

20-Mar-2008 By Claire Miller

Michelin-listed West Malling brasserie The Swan celebrates its eighth birthday on April Fools Day on the back of a sustained period of growth for the converted 15th century coaching inn.

New Premier Inn for Bournemouth

18-Mar-2008 By Alan Lodge

Whitbread has announced details of the new £14 million Premier Inn hotel on the Bournemouth seafront

Travelodge and Premier Inn Merger Talks

17-Mar-2008 By Claire Miller

Two giants of the budget hotel industry in talks over a proposed £3 billion merger which would create an 800-hotel-strong supergroup