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23rd February 2019   Thai restaurant group Rosa’s Thai Cafe has opened in Liverpool, its first venue outside London.  The site at Albert Docks is the brand’s 16th.   Housed in a grade I-listed former warehouse, the split-level 88-cover restaurant over two floors,  retains original brickwork and huge arches alongside an open kitchen and a mezzanine […]

22nd February 2019   Yorkshire-based curry house brand Kashmiri Aroma is set to open in a former Bradford pub, its fifth site in Yorkshire.  Refurbishment work has already been erected around The Turf, at the junction of Keighley Road and Emm Lane, with the restaurant expected to open in April.   Kashmiri Aroma operates restaurants

20th February 2019   A total of 5,809 new takeaways have opened on UK high streets in just three-and-a-half years, a new report by the Food Foundation think-tank, which blames  cheap, unhealthy food for driving Britain’s spiralling obesity crisis.   One in every four food retailers is now a takeaway, according to data analysed for

16th February 2019   The restaurant operator behind the US street food brand The Halal Guys’ laucnh in the UK believes there is plenty of scope for growth beyond its initial 20-site agreement.   ITICO F+B partner Jan van Delden has revealed the plan is to grow small clusters of restaurants in cities across the UK, starting in

15th February 2019   Travis Kalanick has secretly ramped up his first big venture after being oust as head of Uber, headhunting his old company for staff as part of a multimillion-dollar plan to build a worldwide network of food delivery kitchens.   The billionaire co-founder of Uber is applying some of the same tactics

13th February 2019   YO! Sushi has launched a “DNA dining experience” in partnership with genetic testing company DNAFit.   YO! Dinner, YO! Way has been announced following a report by YO! Sushi and foresight consultancy The Future Laboratory, that bids to predict how food will look in ten years’ time and the trends and “tribes”

12th February 2019   Benihana, the worldwide Japanese teppanyaki restaurant chain that has three outlets in London, has opened its first UK site outside the capital, in Glasgow. The company has launched the 100-cover restaurant at a former Carluccio’s site in West Nile Street.   It is the first new Benihana restaurant in the UK

11th February 2019   Rory Graham, formerly part of the management team at Indian small plates concept Kricket, has launched at the White City food court redevelopment in west London. W12 Studios is a partnership with street food caterer Feast-it.   It features a series of rotating kitchens and a large bar. There are two

10th February 2019   London’s Chinatown is on the verge of running out of top chefs because of the government’s strict immigration rules, according to the London Chinatown Chinese Association.   The area’s trade body has claimed an inability to recruit expert chefs from China has left it fearing for the future of the Soho

9th February 2019   Chopstix, the Asian quick service restaurant company, has identified  “significant opportunities” to expand both its eponymous and Yangtze brands as it reported a boost in turnover and sales.   Turnover increased to £24.5m for the year to April 2018, compared with £15.6m the previous year. Like-for-like sales during the year for