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Koh Thai, the four-strong Thai tapas concept, hopes to grow to 20 sites over the next five years and is in talks over a number of different funding options for future expansion, our sister title M&C Report has learnt.
Hoxley and Porter, a new restaurant and cocktail bar inspired by ‘Victorian gentlemen's clubs, Colonial Poirot, Egyptian noir, and surrealist jungles’, is opening in Islington this month.
DHP Family, the bar operator and live music promotions company, has secured its first site in London with the leasehold acquisition of the 7,000 sq.ft former station building in Hackney.
High-end operators are taking a leaf out of Nando’s book by adopting and tweaking counter ordering systems for new mid-market restaurant formats.
Warewashing machine manufacturer Maidaid Halcyon claims to have developed ‘the most economical glasswasher on the market’ when it comes to water consumption, with two of its recently upgraded machines made even cheaper for hospitality businesses to run.
A former bank in Birmingham city centre is set to undergo a £16m revamp which will see it re-open as a 137-bedroom hotel, 53 serviced apartments and a new café/restaurant next year.