Living Ventures to open new Manchester bar connected to Australasia restaurant
Living Ventures has announced it is to open a new bar and kitchen in Manchester which will be connected to its modern Australian restaurant Australasia.
Archives for June 18, 2013
China’s Dalian Wanda to spend £700m on luxury London hotel
Today’s announcement that the first luxury Chinese hotel brand to open oversees will be in London has been welcomed by Mayor Boris Johnson as ‘yet another sign of the soaring global confidence’ in the capital.
Cafés and coffee shops a better bet for expanding restaurateurs than brasseries and pubs
David Colcombe, chef director of Opus Restaurant in Birmingham, has opened a new café under the Opus brand in the city and has said coffee shops could be a better option than brasseries and pubs for restaurateurs looking to expand.
National Waiters Day: A day in the life of a maître d’ with Paulo de Tarso
To celebrate the first ever National Waiters Day, BigHospitality decided to discover a little bit more about one of the most important front-of-house restaurant roles - the maître d’. For this exclusive video we spent a morning with Bar Boulud's Paulo de...
Amber Taverns to extend wet-led pub model further south with Midlands acquisitions
James Baer, managing director of successful community pub operator Amber Taverns, has told BigHospitality he believes the company's wet-led pub model could work in areas in the south of the country.