Bistrot Pierre closes eight sites following pre-pack deal
Bistrot Pierre has been sold in a pre-pack administration with the closure of eight restaurants.
Archives for March 7, 2025
Roux Scholarship 2025 finalists named
The six chefs who will compete for the title of Roux Scholar 2025 have been revealed.
Latest opening: Kricket Shoreditch
Will Bowlby and Rik Campbell have bowled a curve ball with their new all-day Indian restaurant.
Restaurant delivery sales flatten in January
Restaurant delivery sales have slipped year-on-year after consumers reined in their spending after Christmas, CGA by NIQ’s latest Hospitality at Home Tracker reveals.
Friday five: the week’s top restaurant stories
Humble Chicken’s £1m refit and new restaurants from both the Locatellis and Nieves Barragán Mohacho lead this week’s top news stories.
Hove restaurant El Bolillo closes its doors
Chef Greg Clarke’s Hove restaurant El Bolillo has closed its doors having traded for a little under six months.
Mary-Ellen McTague: “Encouraging other women into the kitchen feels like leading lambs to the slaughter”
The former The Fat Duck and Aumbry chef has just launched low-waste restaurant Pip at Treehouse Hotel Manchester.
Pizza Express shareholders to provide £30m cash injection
Pizza Express shareholder Bain Capital Special Situations is preparing to inject millions of pounds into the restaurant group’s parent company to help secure a refinancing of its debt.
Murat Kilic to open Ara in east London
Restaurateur and chef Murat Kilic will launch another restaurant in the capital this spring.