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A number of new hospitality venues opened their doors within the last month including long-awaited restaurants from Bruno Loubet and Aqua Restaurant Group which launched Hutong at The Shard this week

Hospitality Openings: May/June 2013

By Peter Ruddick

Long-awaited restaurants, including Bruno Loubet's The Grain Store and Hutong at The Shard, dominate this month's hospitality openings photo gallery which also documents concept launches, refurbs and re-brands carried out by hospitality businesses...

Street food operator KERB will be able to launch a new Saturday market thanks to the trial (photo courtesy of Tom Bowles)

Boris Johnson gets behind London’s small food businesses

By Luke Nicholls

London Mayor Boris Johnson has pledged his support for the capital’s small food businesses by backing the pilot scheme of an innovative new programme which aims to create more jobs and reinvigorate the high streets. 

Flesh and Buns will feature the same rock'n'roll music of its sister restaurant BoneDaddies

Bone Daddies owner brings ‘Flesh and Buns’ to Covent Garden

By Luke Nicholls

Ross Shonhan, the man behind ramen restaurant Bone Daddies, is doubling up in London with the opening of Flesh and Buns – another Japanese concept, this time specializing in  ‘hirata’ steamed buns – in Covent Garden next month.

Hampton by Hilton is set to double its UK presence by 2015

Hampton by Hilton to double its UK presence by 2015

By Peter Ruddick

Hilton Worldwide has today unveiled plans to expand its value Hampton by Hilton brand with two new hotels in Birmingham and Gatwick Airport which will see the concept double its presence in the UK by 2015 to 23 properties.

Jamie Oliver's Diner was one of a number of new restaurants, hotels and pubs & bars to launch within the last month

Hospitality Openings: April/May 2013

By Peter Ruddick

New London restaurants, including a diner concept from celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and the first venue to open in The Shard, dominate our hospitality openings gallery for April/May 2013 although innovative bars and hotels also feature.

Blessing and Gibson Mutandwa were selected from 25 finalists to win the AA's Friendliest Bed and Breakfast of the Year award

Milton House named UK’s Friendliest B&B

By Luke Nicholls

Milton House in Poet’s Corner, Bath, has been crowned the Friendliest Bed and Breakfast of the Year by the AA in its annual Bed and Breakfast Awards.

The Crystal Palace Market includes a 76-cover restaurant, butchers and fishmongers

New British restaurant group snaps up two London sites

By Luke Nicholls

The Markets Group, which looks to create ‘farmers markets’ housed within the same space as new restaurants in London, has just opened its first site in Crystal Palace and is opening a second in Fulham later this year.

Arie van der Speck, senior vice president of Laureate Hospitality Education and one of the team behind the launch of Glion London

Arie van der Spek: Pearls of Wisdom

By Peter Ruddick

After a long career in the hotel industry, which included a stint with IHG as a chief operating officer, Arie van der Spek is now the senior vice president of Laureate Hospitality Education and is helping to launch a London branch of hospitality management...

Jason Atherton plans two more London restaurants

Jason Atherton plans two more London restaurants

By William Drew

Jason Atherton is planning to launch two further London restaurants by the end of this year, adding to the spring openings of Little Social and Social Eating House.

Mews of Mayfair opens Mayfair Pizza Co.

Mews of Mayfair takes over Rocket Mayfair

By Emma Eversham

James Robson, the owner of British brasserie Mews of Mayfair, has taken over the site of Rocket in Mayfair and turned it into his own pizza restaurant. 

Kua 'Aina Burger & Sandwich Grill launched its first UK site in London's Soho in April 2011

Kua ‘Aina eyes London expansion

By Luke Nicholls

Hawaiian burger and sandwich concept Kua ‘Aina, which currently has one UK restaurant in Soho, is actively seeking funding to open two more sites in central London this year, with hopes to expand to up to 20 outlets by 2020, BigHospitality can reveal.

Ametsa with Arzak Instruction was one of the key hospitality openings in the first three months of the year; the period also saw Keith McNally finally bring Balthazar restaurant to London

Hospitality Openings: January-March 2013

By Peter Ruddick

The first three months of the year have seen a slew of long-awaited restaurants, hotels and pubs & bars opening their doors to the public. BigHospitality has rounded up some of the top launches, including venues from Keith McNally, Isaac McHale and...

Kurt Zdesar to open Chotto Matte in Soho

Ping Pong founder to open Nikkei restaurant in London's Soho

By Emma Eversham

Kurt Zdesar, the founder of dim sum chain Ping Pong, has announced plans to open a restaurant in London's Soho this autumn that will focus on serving Nikkei cuisine, the fusion of Japanese cooking with Peruvian ingredients. 

Chicken restaurant Wishbone was one of several new hospitality businesses to launch in the last two months of 2012 - check out the top new openings for November and December in our exclusive photo gallery

Hospitality Openings: November/December 2012

By Peter Ruddick

As 2012 drew to a close, some of the year's big trends - street food, chicken restaurants and food-led pubs - continued to dominate hospitality openings. In our latest photo gallery, BigHospitality rounds up some of the top new restaurants, hotels...

Russell Norman interview

Russell Norman: Pearls of Wisdom

By Stefan Chomka

The former ops director of Caprice Holdings turned London restaurateur recently opened a third Polpo, his take on a Venetian bàcaro. Plans are under way for three central London sites, in Soho, theatreland and by the river, as well as a new incarnation...

Collective like-for-like sales down 1.7 per cent in October, but total sales were up by 1.6 per cent

Restaurant and pub groups hit by later school half-term

By Luke Nicholls

Britain’s leading restaurant and pub groups saw collective like-for-like sales down 1.7 per cent in October compared with the same month last year, caused in part by the later school half-term holidays, according to the latest Coffer Peach Business Tracker.

ME London will be Meliá Hotels International's flagship Me by Meliá property when it opens on the Strand next month

Meliá’s ME London hotel all set for opening

By Luke Nicholls

Spanish-based hotel chain Meliá Hotels International is set to launch the flagship property under its ME by Meliá brand in London next month, featuring 157 rooms, two restaurants and a rooftop lounge and bar.  

Barrio East to open, more sites planned

Latin American Barrio Bars aiming for five London sites by 2013

By Emma Eversham

The team behind Latin American-inspired bar concept Barrio Bars is aiming to increase its reach across the capital with plans to add sites in Clapham, south London and Notting Hill, west London to its estate by the end of next year.

Average room yield for hotels in the capital was £135.35, up from £91.12 in August 2011

London 2012 Olympics brings major room yield boost for hotels

By Luke Nicholls

Hotels in London recorded an increase in room yield by almost 50 per cent last month as a result of year-on-year room rates rocketing up from £110.22 to £165.05 a night, with occupancy levels remaining above 80 per cent for the entire period of the London...

The Jam Tree has opened its third food-led pub in Clapham which has a menu containing a number of dishes also available in its Kensington and Chelsea sites including thyme and habanero roasted pumpkin salad

The Jam Tree extends food-led pub estate to Clapham

By Peter Ruddick

Privately-owned gastropub group The Jam Tree has continued its expansion plans by opening its third venue in as many years last week with a new site in Clapham; it joins two existing sites in Chelsea and Kensington.

The effects of the Olympics, better weather and last year’s riots all played their part in the year-on year sales increase

Restaurant and pub groups see London sales boost in August

By Luke Nicholls

Combined like-for-like sales for pub and restaurant groups inside the M25 increased by 5 per cent in August, but businesses outside of London saw a much more modest uplift of just 1 per cent compared with the same month last year. 

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