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UKHospitality has written to the Chancellor Rishi Sunak ahead of his March Budget statement outlining the additional action needed to revive the industry. The trade body has said the Government must extend the VAT cut – from 20 to 5 per cent – for a further 12 months and to also continue the business rates […]
The company behind restaurant brands including Richoux and Villagio has entered administration, with 147 jobs lost. Dining Street together with its subsidiaries Richoux and Newultra operated 15 site in London and the south of England. It follows a number of other businesses to close due to the coronavirus pandemic. Its other brands included Zintino, Friendly […]
The Indian restaurant group Dishoom has launched a delivery-only site in Cambridge, expanding its brand to new parts of the country by growing its kitchen-only business. Dishoom, one of the hospitality industry’s greatest success stories of recent years, with restaurants in London, Manchester, and Edinburgh, has been working on its takeaway service throughout the pandemic […]
A vegan restaurant in France has become the first of its kind in Europe to be blessed with a Michelin star. ONA – an acronym for Origine Non Animale (animal-free origin) – was launched by Claire Vallée in Ares, near Bordeaux, in 2016, after a crowdfunding campaign and investment from a ‘green’ bank. Vallée told […]
Exclusive Hotels is working on two new restaurant projects which will launch when the lockdown in England allows, Boutique Hotelier has reported. This year, the group has plans to open a new dining room at Pennyhill Park, Surrey, to showcase the best of Surrey produce, and will also launch a restaurant and cookery school at […]
Here is our weekly round-up of what the national and local restaurant critics are writing about, for the week ending 17 January 2021; the first few round-ups of the year are often short due to reviews being replaced by articles on Veganuary and Dry January, but reviews are especially thin this year with restaurants closed. […]
Boris Johnson has seemingly rebuffed calls to install a dedicated hospitality minister despite a robust campaign from the industry. Claire Bosi, editor of Chef & Restaurant magazine, started the #SeatAtTheTable campaign last year and saw backing from the likes of Angela Hartnett and Tom Kerridge, as well as more than 200,000 members of the public. […]
PizzaExpress has closed another 23 restaurants in the UK, with discussions ongoing on a number of other sites. The move follows the closure of 74 restaurants last year after a company voluntary arrangement (CVA) in September. The CVA mean PizzaExpress managed to see reduced rents and also gave landlords the opportunity to terminate leases until […]
An estimated 650,000 job losses have ravaged the hospitality industry in the past year, according to figures. Analysis of more than 700 restaurants, pubs, and bars by the hospitality software provider Fourth found the total number of jobs in the sector has fallen by a quarter compared to January 2020. It is believed thousands more […]
A chef who worked in some of London’s leading restaurants has died of Covid-19, his son has said. Balam Singh, 48, an avid cricket fan who lived in South London, worked at The Painted Heron in Chelsea when it opened in 2002, and later at the Michelin-starred Gymkhana. Both in their day were voted London’s […]
