Casual Dining

Chickpea Group to make Somerset debut

27-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

The trio behind the Wiltshire based Chickpea Group have acquired a seventh pub in what will be their first venue in the county of Somerset.

Latest opening: Dream Xi’an

26-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

Shaanxi cuisine specialist Guirong Wei is expanding her culinary horizons with a new restaurant in Tower Hill.

Brighton’s Lost in the Lanes launches evening menu

26-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

Brighton’s Lost in the Lanes restaurant will launch a more ambitious evenings-only menu early next month.

Dishoom to take the Permit Room to Cambridge

26-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Indian restaurant group Dishoom is taking its fledgling spin-off brand the Permit Room to Cambridge for its second site.

Big Mamma looking to open Manchester site

25-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Restaurant group Big Mamma is understood to have found a site in Manchester for what would be its first UK opening outside the capital.

Rigatoni’s halves estate less than three months after brand overhaul

25-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Rigatoni’s, the Manchester-based restaurant group that previously traded under the name Sud Pasta, has announced the closure of its second site in as many months.

Whitbread looks to offload underperforming Beefeater and Brewers Fayre sites

25-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Whitbread is looking to sell or convert around a third of its Beefeater and Brewers Fayre pubs estate.

San Carlo sets its sights on international expansion

25-Mar-2024 By Shwetali Sapte

San Carlo Group is preparing to open at least six restaurants in the next 18 months, according to managing director Marcello Distefano.

Tony Rodd to oversee the stoves at new Margate restaurant

25-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Chef Tony Rodd is to oversee the stoves of a new neighbourhood-style restaurant and wine bar being launched in Margate by former Jamie Oliver Group MD Ryan Jacovides.

Chotto Matte’s enormous Manchester restaurant to launch in early 2025

22-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

Japanese-Peruvian restaurant group Chotto Matte has confirmed that its debut regional restaurant will launch in early 2025, around six month later than originally planned.

Bird House London to launch fourth venue in the capital

21-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

The London based hospitality group behind venues The Hawk’s Nest, Skylarking, and Peckham Arches will open a taproom and brewery later this month.

Art’otel Hoxton reveals details of ground floor restaurant

21-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

The soon-to-launch Art’otel Hoxton hotel in London has unveiled details of its ground floor restaurant, which is set to open in May.

Delivery sales rise 8% in February as takeaways drop again

21-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Britain’s leading managed restaurant groups achieved year-on-year sales growth of 8% in delivery sales in February 2024, CGA by NIQ’s new Hospitality at Home Tracker shows.

Gino D’Acampo’s My Pasta Bar brand wound up

21-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Gino D’Acampo’s London-based My Pasta Bar brand has been wound up by administrators.

Operator behind Sucre and CLAP London to launch Pan-Asian restaurant in Shoreditch

20-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

The group behind Soho’s Sucre and the more recently opened Knightsbridge restaurant CLAP London will launch a new Pan-Asian dining concept in Shoreditch early next month.

Gusto launches £65 subscription-based membership programme in casual dining first

20-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

Largely Northern-based Italian group Gusto has become the UK’s first casual dining brand to launch a subscription-based membership programme that requires guests to pay upfront to access discounts and other benefits.

Majestic Wine ‘exploring deal’ to purchase Vagabond

19-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Specialist wine retailer Majestic has confirmed it is exploring a deal to purchase beleaguered bar group Vagabond.

Wine importers Joe Haynes and Ben Butterworth partner with chef Tom Hurst to launch Farringdon restaurant

19-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

Wine importer Joe Haynes and Ben Butterworth will team up with chef Tom Hurst to launch a restaurant and wine bar in Farringdon this spring.

CC Capital in talks to take Soho House private

19-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

CC Capital, the investment firm led by former Blackstone executive Chinh Chu, is in talks with Soho House over a potential bid to acquire the members club group.

Harts Group will celebrate the cheese toastie at its new Two Drops bar at Battersea Power Station

18-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Harts Group will open a bar at Battersea Power Station alongside its El Pastor Mexican restaurant brand.

Prezzo returns to profitability following restructure

18-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Prezzo has returned to profitability following a restructure of its business that saw it close nearly a third of its estate last year.

Soho House reduces losses as membership waitlist hits ‘all-time high’

18-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Soho House has reduced its losses and seen membership revenues increase, according to its latest financial results.

Laura Harper-Hinton: “We don’t see Caravan as a London brand”

15-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

The Antipodean trio behind successful restaurant and coffee brand Caravan are hitting the road later this year having lined up their debut regional site.

MCA Hospitality Awards winners revealed

15-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Brands including Albert’s Schloss, Gail’s Bakery, Five Guys, Nando’s, Dishoom, and F1 Arcade we among the winners at last night’s MCA Hospitality Awards.

Restaurant groups deliver modest sales growth in February amid 'subdued trading'

14-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Britain’s top hospitality groups achieved modest like-for-like sales growth of 1.4% in February, the latest CGA RSM Hospitality Business Tracker reveals.

Mexican restaurant Condesa to open in Bristol

14-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Bristol-based hospitality group Season + Taste will open its latest restaurant in the city this month.

Honest Burgers sees turnover rise by 26%

13-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Honest Burgers has reported a turnover increase of more than a quarter in its latest accounts.

Megan's heads to Twickenham

13-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Neighbourhood-style restaurant brand Megan's will open its latest restaurant in the capital this spring.

ASK Italian switches to 100% regenerative flour for its pizza

12-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

ASK Italian has become the first major Italian restaurant group to make its pizza with regenerative flour.

Kolamba duo to open second restaurant in Spitalfields

11-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Kolamba founders Eroshan and Aushi Meewella will open their second London restaurant, on Spitalfields’ Blossom Street.

Sticks'n'Sushi and Deliveroo announce exclusive partnership

11-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Danish-owned sushi and kushiyaki specialist Sticks’n’Sushi has launched an exclusive partnership with Deliveroo.

Blacklock to make regional debut in Manchester later this year

11-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

Blacklock will open a restaurant in Manchester later this year marking the successful chophouse concept’s first site outside the capital.

Popular Leeds Indian restaurant Manjit’s Kitchen to close

11-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Leeds-based Indian restaurant Manjit’s Kitchen has announced it will close next month citing an unsustainable rise in costs as the reason.

Sam Harrison to bring Sam’s Kitchen to Chiswick

08-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

West London duo Sam Harrison and Fanny Stocker are switching their Sam’s Larder deli in Chiswick over to their café concept Sam’s Kitchen.

Azzurri Group announces 10% reduction in carbon emissions

08-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Azzurri Group has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by around 10% across its business while expanding its restaurant portfolio.

Shaanxi cuisine specialist Guirong Wei launches third London restaurant

08-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

Master Wei and Xi’an Impression chef Guirong Wei has launched a restaurant in London’s Tower Bridge serving her lauded take on Shaanxi cuisine.

Caravan to make regional debut in Manchester

08-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

All day dining and coffee group Caravan will make its regional debut in Manchester this summer.

Elite Bistros passes latest crowdfunding target

07-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Gary Usher’s Elite Bistros has surpassed its £95,000 crowdfunding target ahead of schedule.

Mayfair's The Guinea Grill reopens following expansion

06-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Award-winning pub The Guinea Grill has reopened its doors following an expansion of the pub to create additional dining space and two new private dining rooms.

Flat Iron confirms summer opening date for Manchester site

06-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Flat Iron has confirmed it will open a restaurant in Manchester this summer over a year after its plans to move to the city were first revealed.

Peckham’s Café Britaly to celebrate ‘Britain’s love-affair with Italian food’

05-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

Bocca di Lupo alumni Richard Crampton-Platt and chef Alex Purdie will open an all-day restaurant in Peckham later this spring.

The Oystermen duo to launch all-day brasserie

05-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Rob Hampton and Matt Lovell, the duo behind London seafood bar and kitchen The Oystermen, are to launch their third Covent Garden site later this month.

Pizza Pilgrims earns B Corp status

05-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Pizza Pilgrims has become the latest in a growing number of UK restaurant groups to have obtained B Corp status.

Latest opening: Trejo’s Tacos

05-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Hollywood actor Danny Trejo has chosen Portobello Road in London’s Notting Hill to launch the first international outpost of his LA-based Mexican restaurant brand Trejo’s Tacos.

Vagabond undertakes restructuring to ‘safeguard business’

05-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Pour-your-own wine bar group Vagabond is in the process of appointing administrators as it looks to undertake a restructuring to safeguard the business.

Japes signs first franchise deal for Camden restaurant

04-Mar-2024 By Restaurant

Chicago style deep-dish pizza brand Japes has signed its first franchise deal for a restaurant in Camden.

Marco Pierre White launches pub brand

04-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

Black and White Hospitality and its perennial muse Marco Pierre White will launch a pub brand in the Suffolk town of Felixstowe later this year.

How I Got Here: Florence Mae Maglanoc

04-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

The CEO of London-based restaurant group Maginhawa on the need for greater diversity in hospitality leadership roles, and grasping the potential of franchise opportunities.

David Carter to open Athens street market-inspired restaurant AGORA in Borough Market

04-Mar-2024 By Joe Lutrario

SMOKESTAK and Manteca founder David Carter will open a restaurant inspired by Athens’ street markets beneath his OMA restaurant in London’s Borough Market.

Toca Social expands to Birmingham

01-Mar-2024 By James McAllister

Immersive football and dining concept Toca Social is heading to Birmingham for its second UK site.