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Restaurants and hotels, including PizzaExpress, Hotel du Vin & Malmaison, The Capital hotel and the Grand Imperial London, tell BigHospitality about new products, special events and promotions they’re running to attract more customers.
Robert Cook, former Malmaison and Hotel du Vin chief executive, has been named as the successor to Gary Davis, former Village Hotels chief executive for De Vere, confirming what appears to be a direct job swap between the pair.
Premier Inn, the UK’s largest budget hotel chain, has submitted plans to build a new 120-bedroom hotel and restaurant at Worcestershire County Cricket Club’s New Road ground.
Le Cordon Bleu cookery school has announced the opening of its new International Flagship Institute in London’s Bloomsbury Square today (13 January), with Café Le Cordon Bleu set to open on the site at the end of the month.
Pastry chef Will Torrent scored a week's work experience with Heston Blumenthal at the tender age of 15. Ten years on he is working alongside Blumenthal again as a pastry chef consultant for Waitrose. He was the first British pastry chef to win at...
InterContinental Hotels & Resorts won the prestigious World's Leading Hotel Brand award for the third year in a row at the 2011 World Travel Awards which also saw big wins for Premier Inn and Dukes London who scooped the World's Ultimate Service Award in...
The five-star Tylney Hall hotel in Hampshire has been fined more than £40,000 after poisoning guests with chicken liver parfait on the menu at a Christmas party.
CDS HÖVER, the curtain cleaning provider, has launched a new system which aims to provide significant savings in time and money for hoteliers.
Gordon Ramsay is to open his first Las Vegas restaurant, Gordon Ramsay Steak, at Paris Las Vegas hotel in the heart of the Strip.
Bath Ales has opened it's eighth venue in the South West, a craft beer bar in Bristol, as part of an expansion of the independent brewery which will also see it increase production volume.