Property firm Grosvenor has exited the joint venture it set up with Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels (HSH) to develop the £500m Peninsula London Hotel on Hyde Park Corner.
Consumers are spending more on takeaway services ‒ including Deliveroo and Hello Fresh ‒ and eating out more frequently overall, although average transaction value has fallen across casual dining and pubs, according to a new report.
The River Cottage Deli, from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, is to become permanent at exhibition venue ExCel London, after its successful pop-up earlier this year.
Dave White, manager of the Dead Parrot bar in Horsham, West Sussex, beat over 120 contestants to win the Monkey Shoulder Ultimate Bartender competition in July for the second year running. He gives his top tips for bartending success ahead of London Cocktail...
A new Italian restaurant, Manitoba Tigella, is to open on London’s New Oxford Street, focusing on the tigella, a traditional disc-shaped stuffed bread from Northern Italy.
The M Restaurants group in London is looking to raise £1.5m in crowdfunding via the Seedrs online investment website, to aid the expansion of offshoot brand M Social.
This month has seen a blossoming of new openings, including Basque group Sagardi, a new Dirty Bones, Asian-style tapas site Tootoomoo Islington, and revamped classics Quo Vadis, Bluebird, and Cinnamon Soho.
Four Holiday Inn hotels are undergoing refurbishment work to become Crowne Plaza hotels, including upgraded bedrooms, new communal areas, meeting spaces, and a new restaurant.
James Durrant, former executive chef at Jason Atherton’s Maze and Maze Grill, is now executive chef at the five-star, 105-bedroom Stafford London hotel in St James.
British restaurant employees are earning on average 18 per cent more than those from other EU countries and 20 per cent more than people from non-EU countries, according to new research from hospitality recruiter, The Change Group.
In this latest video from our In Operation with... series we visit Indian restaurant group Dishoom to find out about its origins, its people focus and future plans.
Hotels giant AccorHotels is to launch new brand, Jo&Joe, in a bid to combine the traditional hotel format with the newer, more disruptive hostel and private-rental concepts.
Missy Flynn and Gabriel Pryce of Hackney bar and restaurant Rita's are to open a new canteen-style restaurant at workspace campus Republic at East India Dock.
The Clove Club's Isaac McHale is to hold a collaborative tasting menu event with Franco-Japanese chefs Atsushi Tanaka, Hideki Nishi, and Ryuji Teshima.
Jupiter Hotels has announced that it has purchased three hotels under its umbrella – the Holiday Inn Darlington, Holiday Inn Dumfries, and Mercure Sheffield Parkway – off a reported guide price of £12m, as part of a wider expansion push.
The World Chocolate Masters (WCM) contest has announced its theme for 2017/18 as ‘Futropolis’, having launched the competition in the UK with the national pre-selections in London this week.
The Independent Hotel Show returns to London’s Olympia on 18-19 October with a busy two days of inspiration, advice and networking opportunities for the UK’s luxury and boutique hoteliers.
Corazón, a new Mexican-style taco restaurant from former Corbin & King manager Laura Sheffield and former Sartoria chef Paul Daniel will open in London's Soho this November.
Bourgee, the steak and lobster restaurant in Southend-on-Sea, is set to expand significantly, with a new site in Chelmsford and plans for Suffolk and Norwich in 2017.
Marriott International has completed its $13.6bn acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and immediately announced plans to link up the group’s guest loyalty programmes.
Darron Bunn has racked up more than 20 years' as a chef, working with Marco Pierre White and Nico Ladenis before running gastropubs, leading brigades at five-star hotels and more. As group executive chef at Goodwood Estate he oversees all food operations,...
The managing director of German hotel chain Pentahotels says the UK is an 'important market' for the expansion of the brand with more than 30 new locations currently under scrutiny.
Island Poké, a new restaurant concept backed by Chris Miller, founder of investment platform the White Rabbit Fund, is to open in London’s Soho this October.
Chefs Tom Kerridge and Adam Byatt are to appear at Stockbridge pub The Greyhound on the Test, which was named Michelin Pub of the Year in 2014, for a series of one-off fundraising supper clubs.
Pub-style restaurant and bar The Islington Townhouse, from London-based pub group Hippo Inns, is to launch its sixth venue in London’s Angel this winter.
French restaurant chain Le Bistrot Pierre is planning to open six new restaurants a year with sites in coastal and secondary towns in the North and South West of England its main target.
Sir Terence Conran and Peter Prescott are to open their new restaurant, Parabola, within the newly-relocated, John-Pawson-designed Design Museum in London's Kensington, next month.
The back-to-school month brings a host of new appointments, including Yu Sugimoto as new head chef at The Square, Alicia Storey at the Passford House Hotel in Lymington, Jim Slater as managing director of Chipotle in Europe.
