Top 100 Restaurants in the UK: the diners’ choice
toptable, the leading consumer destination site for restaurant bookings in the UK, has announced the 2013 annual Diners’ Choice award winners for the Top 100 Best Restaurants in the UK, and highlighted...
View Article19th Abokado opens, 20th on the way
Abokado, the fast expanding healthy food chain has opened its 19th outlet on Cutler Street in the City of London. This is the eighth site the company has opened in 2013 and the fifth opened in 2013 in...
View ArticleSite Bites – Big Easy arrives – The Clog and Billycock – Pit in Chapel...
Big Easy arrives in Covent Garden – Ribble Valley Inns re-opens The Clog and Billycock – Arc Inspirations digs Pit in Chapel Allerton – The Terrace by Absolute Taste launches in Fenwick, Tunbridge...
View ArticleGlasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games a ‘triumph’ for sustainable fish
Conservation groups have united in welcoming sustainable fish-buying policies announced over the last two weeks by the organisers of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games and the Rio 2016 Olympics. This...
View ArticleShaun Rankin opens luxury deli next to Ormer restaurant
St Helier prepares to welcome a new business before Christmas as Michelin starred chef Shaun Rankin opens his luxury delicatessen ‘Don Street Deli’ next door to Shaun’s highly acclaimed Ormer...
View ArticleInterim Elliott report on the integrity and assurance of food supply networks
Professor Chris Elliott, Professor of Food Safety and Director of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast, was asked by the Secretaries of State for Defra and Health to...
View ArticleSingh, Kochhar, Todiwala and Corrick join forces for Mastara Chef Initiative
Vivek Singh and Mastara Chef Apprentices – (Left to Right) Muhammad Kuhinoor, Matthew Foster, Carolyn Huntley, Daniel Walsh, Abdelilah Serroukh Executive Chef and CEO of The Cinnamon Club, Cinnamon...
View ArticlePeople 1st Training Company encourages small businesses to fight back against...
With 12 days to go until Christmas, the People 1st Training Company has launched a viral video urging small hospitality businesses to fight back against bad customer service. The video forms part of...
View ArticleWhat next for Masterchef finalists?
The winner of Masterchef: The Professionals was announced in the series’ final programme on Thursday last week after a competition that produced three of the best finalists ever seen. Steven Edwards...
View ArticleSales surge at Euro Garages with fast-food revenue
Euro Garages has posted strong financial results from a combination of strategic site acquisitions and the ongoing success of brand partnerships with Starbucks, Subway and Greggs, with revenue at the...
View ArticleThe mixological way to your five-a-day in January
Forget the greengrocers for your New Year’s fruit and veg health-kick, the ETM Group bars at One Canada Square (Canary Wharf), The Botanist (Sloane Square) and Chiswell Street Dining Rooms (Barbican)...
View ArticleCafé Football opens at Westfield
Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville and GG Hospitality’s managing director, Stuart Procter, at the official launch of Café Football at Westfield Stratford City One of 2013’s most talked about new restaurants –...
View ArticleSlug and Lettuce get healthy for 2014
Slug and Lettuce will be starting off 2014 in a saintly way. Due to the increasing popularity of the ‘Under 500’ section on the Slug and Lettuce food menu, the 70-strong premium bar chain, which is...
View ArticleNew Head Chef for Roxburghe Hotel, Kelso
Luxury venue, the Roxburghe Hotel in Kelso, has appointed Gordon Campbell as its new head chef. Joining the Hotel from the Collingwood Arms Hotel in Berwick Upon Tweed, where he was head chef leading...
View ArticleJust Falafel introduces falafel-based British breakfast menu
Just Falafel, the expanding falafel restaurant group, has introduced a brand new falafel-based breakfast menu as part of its mission to deliver fresh, delicious and nutritious food on-the-go to the UK...
View ArticleFood costs for December
Welcome to your market overview from Prestige Purchasing for December. This is your quick walkthrough guide in the world of food and drink supply markets. Within the last month we have seen the prices...
View ArticleGiggling Squid expands and offers 1966 prices!
Giggling Squid Thai restaurant has just opened in Stratford on Avon (pictured above and below) and is to charge the same prices as those found on a 1966 drinks menu by builders during renovations – not...
View ArticlePub and restaurant groups trade strongly in lead-up to Christmas
Britain’s pub, bar and restaurant groups saw stronger growth in November than in the previous two months. Showing no signs of a trading lull in the build-up to Christmas, collective like-for-like sales...
View ArticleA Greene Christmas for many
The scale of pub dining is not fully appreciated by many, but this week’s Christmas figures from Greene King provide an insight. Pub retailer and brewer Greene King says it will be welcoming more than...
View ArticleWhitehall to be transformed into residential and leisure address
The recent announcement of the conversion of 3-5 Great Scotland Yard into a new 5-star hotel is a clear sign of the changes that Whitehall will undergo in the near future: we can expect to see the...
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