Butcher

Butcher Jonny Farrell to launch first restaurant venture

26-Jan-2024 By James McAllister

Lancashire-based butcher Jonny Farrell is to launch his first restaurant venture next month in Birkdale Village, Southport.

The Ethical Butcher to launch wholesale business

02-Mar-2022 By James McAllister

The Ethical Butcher is to launch a B2B wholesale business for the hospitality sector next week.

How I Got Here: John Pallagi

10-Nov-2021 By James McAllister

The former restaurateur who now runs heritage butcher and meat supplier business Farmison & Co on his career to date, and why restaurants must embrace the digital world.

How I Got Here: Struan Robertson

28-Jul-2021 By James McAllister

The co-owner of The Provenance Meat Company on becoming a butcher, his best and worst business decisions, and why there needs to be more routes to market for small-scale farmers.

The Fish Butcher: Josh Niland on how we've been doing fish all wrong

15-Oct-2019 By Joe Lutrario

Australian chef Josh Niland has penned a groundbreaking book that calls for a total rethink of how restaurants buy, store and serve fish. Part cookbook, part manifesto, it is essential reading for any chef that handles fish.

Eat Game Awards 2019 open for nominations

13-Aug-2019 By Joe Lutrario

Restaurants and pubs are being encouraged to put game dishes on the menu as nominations open for the Eat Game Awards 2019.

Mike Robinson: "I want this to be unashamedly Stratford’s best restaurant"

03-May-2019 By James McAllister

The highly-regarded game chef, who co-owns the Michelin-starred Harwood Arms in Fulham, has just opened meat-focused restaurant The Woodsman in Stratford-upon-Avon's Hotel Indigo.

Harwood Arms co-founder to open second hotel restaurant

10-Apr-2019 By James McAllister

The restaurateur and co-owner of the Michelin-starred Harwood Arms in Fulham is partnering with the St James’s Hotel Group to open a second restaurant within a Hotel Indigo site later this year.

Tom Kerridge no longer part of The Rib Room re-opening

10-Oct-2017 By Joe Lutrario

The Hand and Flowers chef patron Tom Kerridge will not be opening the restaurant at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower as had been previously planned.

Friday Five: the week's top news

29-Sep-2017 By Sophie Witts

From the 2018 Michelin Bib Gourmand winners to a new strategy to tackling the chef shortage, we round-up the top stories you might have missed this week.

Tom Kerridge to launch pub and butchery in Marlow

28-Sep-2017 By Joe Lutrario

Two-star pub chef Tom Kerridge is teaming up with brewer and pub operator Greene King to open a pub and butchery in Marlow.

Robert Owen Brown on The Hinchcliffe: "I'm a Northern boy. This is where I belong"

16-Aug-2017 By Georgia Bronte

When Salford pub The Mark Addy closed in 2014 chef Robert Owen Brown swore he would never open another restaurant or pub again. But the high-profile chef and author of Crispy Squirrel and Vimto Trifle is back. Owen Brown has quietly taken over the kitchen...

Chop Bloc steak restaurant to open in Essex

24-Nov-2014 By Lauren Houghton

US-style steak restaurant and cocktail bar Chop Block will open in Chelmsford in Essex in mid-January 2015. 

Young hospitality entrepreneur to open butcher/restaurant concept in London

29-Jan-2014 By Luke Nicholls

Luca Mathiszig-Lee, the young entrepreneur that BigHospitality profiled not too long ago, has stuck to his ambition of opening more hospitality businesses in London, having secured a site in Hackney for a new butcher/restaurant concept. 

Burger business: Why quality and traceable beef will prevail

17-Jul-2013 By Luke Nicholls

With London’s burger boom showing no signs of abating, BigHospitality took a trip to a beef cattle farm in Scotland to find out how one of the newest burger joints to hit the capital is championing the quality and traceability of its patties to stand...

How to develop closer links and relationships with food suppliers

18-Jul-2012 By Peter Ruddick

With the popularity for local produce and diner demand for provenance information showing no sign of slowing down, Renaissance Pubs has solved the problem of developing closer links and relationships with suppliers by investing in their own farm.

Anger grows against TripAdvisor following Cutting Edge documentary

01-Nov-2011 By Emma Eversham

Anger against the reviews website TripAdvisor has grown among members of the industry following the airing of the Cutting Edge documentary Attack of the Trip Advisors on Channel 4 last night