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Celebrity chef James Martin, host of BBC TV show Saturday Kitchen, has scooped the Special Award at the Craft Guild of Chefs (CGC) Awards 2013 which also honoured Lima restaurant and The Ivy's April Partridge.
Hotel Inspector and Country House Rescue star Ruth Watson is still on the lookout for pubs, restaurants and tourist attractions that have suffered from bad online reviews for a new TV series which seeks to find out ‘who's right and who's wrong’.
The British Hospitality Association (BHA) will announce that the UK’s hospitality and tourism industries will create over 30,000 new job opportunities for young people by 2015 as the organisation hosts its annual Summit in London later today (11 June).
The Quarter Group, which owns and operates three cafés and restaurants in London, is set to launch the Royal Quarter Café near Buckingham Palace later this month.
It has been revealed that the luxury Guoman Hotels brand will eventually be retired following news that Guoman Hotel Management has been rebranded as glh.
Scottish brewer and pub operator BrewDog has topped the 2013 Zolfo Cooper Profit Tracker, a list of the 50 fastest-growing restaurant and bar companies.
Former lawyer and professional rugby player Guglielmo Arnulfo is following his lifelong passion for cooking with the launch of his first Italian restaurant, Acciuga, on Kensington High Street next week.
Following the success of Zafran Food Company’s saffron and rosewater ice cream, the company has brought out a pure rosewater flavour to complement the range and to offer a lighter dessert option.
Offering discounted entry is failing to push up visitor numbers to nightclubs according to a report by Mintel which forecasts the value of the sector to drop by a further £200m to £1.1bn by 2017.