A new pub/restaurant with a high-end chef behind the stoves is launching in Islington. The Baring, close to the Regent’s Canal in Baring Street premises formerly known as The Poet, opens its doors on Tuesday. Sustainability is a major theme for both food and drink, with wines from low-intervention independent makers and a rotating choice […]
Star chef James Knappett has teamed up with his backers JKS (Gymkhana, Hoppers) and publican Dominic Jacobs (The Running Horse, Mayfair) to open their second London pub in the space of six months. The George in Fitzrovia is a beautifully restored grand Victorian Grade II-listed pub with an Italianate corner site frontage. It is open […]
A new report on the safe reopening of hospitality, commissioned by UKHospitality from analysts CGA, shows that businesses in the sector were not significant areas of Covid transmission in 2020 and argues they should be central to reopening plans in 2021. Details issued by UKHospitality, according to the study: The UK hospitality market saw a staggering […]
All of hospitality has been unfairly treated throughout the coronavirus pandemic, many believe. What is certain is that pubs have been most impacted – in both a social and economic sense. They are places of communal activity – the prime spot for we Brits to get together. And so it is difficult to open them, […]
Alcohol will now be allowed to be sold as delivery and takeaway after the government performed a moderate U-turn. Previously, ministers had banned pints and alcoholic drinks for sale as takeaway, unlike in the first lockdown when businesses were able to better support themselves by selling over counters and through hatches for people to enjoy […]
Pubs and restaurants in the North of England could be forced to close again after a rise in coronavirus cases. UK ministers met yesterday to discuss harsher rules in Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle, with hospitality businesses likely to be shut down from Monday. The warnings come after Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced a lockdown […]
An organic Wiltshire pub that’s topped serving traditional Sunday roasts and makes its own crisps instead of selling bags over the bar has won “Business of the Year” in the 2019 Food Made Good awards, the Sustainable Restaurant Association’s (SRA) annual industry accolade for the most progressive purveyors of food and drink. Among other winners, […]
Sam and Georgie Pearman, co-founders of The Lucky Onion Hotel Group, have taken over The Swan pub in Ascott-under-Wychwood. The Swan will relaunch on May 27 and become a part of the group’s well established list of hotels, pubs, and restaurants. Names you may have heard of include The Chequers in the Cotswolds, and The […]
Chef Ernst van Zyl and partner and general manager Liz Kellett are to take over the Glazebury pub in Warrington next month. South African-born van Zyl first revealed the plans on Twitter. “Exciting news,” he said. “Myself and Liz Kellett will be the new proprietors of the Glazebury in Warrington. “We’re very excited and looking […]
Tom Kitchin opened The Bonnie Badger, a new pub with rooms, on Wednesday this week. It comes just a month after the launch of his casual dining concept Southside Scran in Edinburgh. Harden’s first mentioned news of The Bonnie Badger in May. It’s just a 30-minute drive from the capital in the village of Gullane on […]
