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Bartenders Jack Wareing and Georgia Billing have been chosen to help create a new single malt whisky after winning the UK final of Auchentoshan's New Malt Order competition.
The cask ale category is now worth £1.7bn a year in the UK, but pubs still need to do more to raise awareness of the drink.
Yu Sugimoto has been appointed executive chef at the two Michelin-starred restaurant The Square in Mayfair.
Sir Terence Conran and Peter Prescott are to open their new restaurant, Parabola, within the newly-relocated, John-Pawson-designed Design Museum in London's Kensington, next month.
French restaurant chain Le Bistrot Pierre is planning to open six new restaurants a year with sites in coastal and secondary towns in the North and South West of England its main target.