This week's top news stories include Azzurri bringing US brand Dave’s Hot Chicken to the UK, a new concept from Pizza Express, and Bundobust closing its Birmingham site.
Richard Caring has announced that Bill's will close its entire estate at 7pm on Sunday (14 July) so staff can watch England take on Spain in the 2024 Euros final.
They might have failed to capture the UK market in the same way gourmet burgers have, but that hasn’t stopped chefs from trying to elevate the humble hot dog. Can this new wave of hot dog hopefuls succeed?
York and Leeds-based steak restaurant and cocktail bar The Cut & Craft will make its debut in the north west later this year with a site in Manchester.
Sustainable seafood restaurant Lussmans will return to the expansion trail next month with a new opening in Highgate that’ll also mark the brand’s return to the London after two decades.
Former D&D London CEO Des Gunewardena has returned to the capital’s restaurant scene with a double opening within The Royal Exchange in The City of London.
Former Bouchon Racine chef Jakob Grant has opened his first solo restaurant venture, a bistro located upstairs at The Bohemian public house on the seafront in Deal, Kent.
Azzurri Group is to bring California-based fast casual concept Dave’s Hot Chicken to the UK with a view to opening 60 sites under the brand beginning in London next year.
Marugame Udon Europe parent company Toridoll Holdings is to take full ownership of the noodle restaurant group, with Capdesia successfully exiting its investment.
Hackney-based zero-waste restaurant Silo has successfully reached its £10,000 crowdfunding target to build a Fermentation Factory that will produce commercial quantities of koji and beer grain miso.
This week's top news stories include Jeremy Clarkson's plan to open a pub, the sudden closure of London restaurant All’onda, and Hawksmoor exploring a potential sale.
Hospitality leaders have said Labour must deliver on its manifesto commitments to replace business rates and reform the Apprenticeship Levy following the party’s landslide victory in the general election.
London-based pizzeria group Zia Lucia is aiming to reach 100 sites within five years amid plans to roll out a new international franchise model across Europe and the Middle East.
Luke French and Stacey Sherwood-French have confirmed they will relocate their Sheffield fine dining restaurant Jöro to a site within the Oughtibridge Paper Mill development this September.
The return of Des Gunewardena, a huge cook haus and beer palace in central London, and a new hotdog concept from Jason Atherton are among this month's key restaurant openings.
Jeremy Clarkson is to launch his own pub after acquiring The Windmill, a former wedding and banqueting venue set in five acres of countryside near Burford, Oxfordshire.
