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The popularity of gin in the UK is showing little sign of waning with sales of the spirit breaking the £1bn barrier six months earlier than predicted according to the Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA).
Over one in 10 UK restaurant-goers have admitted to leaving a restaurant, café or bar without paying the bill, either because they didn’t want to wait any more, or couldn’t find a member of staff.
Restaurateur Peter Ilic will close the Farringdon branch of his Little Bay restaurant group at the end of the month as part of plans to grow his healthy fast food brand Foodilic.
Farmopolis, a new ‘urban farm’ café overseen by The Magazine restaurant chefs Emmanuel Eger and Felix Weber, is to open in the Jetty floating garden in London’s Greenwich on 20 September.
A new pizza brand has launched in Exmouth Market – the result of a collaboration between an entrepreneur and an Italian agricultural centre
Dominvs Group has sold three branded regional UK hotels to Asian company Fico Corporation for an undisclosed sum off a guide price of £12m.