
Tropea to increase its covers and extend opening hours
Birmingham restaurant Tropea has take on its neighbouring premises in order to boost its number of covers.

Birmingham restaurant Tropea has take on its neighbouring premises in order to boost its number of covers.

Dubai-based group Fundamental Hospitality will open a London outpost for its high-end pan Asian restaurant brand Shanghai Me on the former Galvin at Windows site on London’s Park Lane.

The Gladwin brothers have made their first move into the pub world with their new gastropub and dining room.

More than 1,500 restaurants and bars are in ‘critical financial distress’, new research from Begbies Traynor shows, with many of them expected to enter insolvency in the next 12 months.

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