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    6th September 2018           .                                                                  With much of the restaurant sector facing an existential crisis, as national […]

22nd August 2018     The Indian Hotel Company (IHC) is to open a 108-bedroom property at London’s Heathrow Airport which will operate under its brand Vivanta.   Set to open in 2021, the hotel will be built on a greenfield site close to Terminals 1, 2 and 3 in partnership with developer Hayre Group.

21st August 2018   Mandarin Oriental London employees are giving 40,000 hours to good causes across the capital as they wait for repairs to be completed after a fire forced the closure of the hotel earlier this year.   The 181-bedroom, five-red-AA-star, Knightsbridge hotel closed its doors after a blaze broke out in June, just

19th August 2018   Assaf Granit, the chef behind Middle Eastern restaurant The Palomar, has opened a restaurant in with designer Tom Dixon at the Coal Drops Yard development in King’s Cross, London.   The duo have launched The Coal Office in Bagley Walk, next to Dixon’s new HQ, the first venue to open at

18th August 2018   Thai Leisure Group has closed Thaikhun in Nottingham. The restaurant, which opened at the end of 2015, is the fifth venue to shut in the Clocktower dining area of the Intu Victoria shopping centre. It follows the closure of The Restaurant Group brands Joe’s Kitchen and Coast to Coast along with

16th August 2018   Manchester’s EatsMeatsWest will launch a new casual dining Chinese concept in Altrincham, this autumn.   WowYauChow will offer a menu of British Chinese favourites and Chinese street food, combining this with craft beer and cocktails. EatsMeatsWest currently runs two restaurants with its meat-themed MeatShack concept based in Rochdale and Stockport.  

14th August 2018     Lonely Planet has revealed the world’s best food experiences in its new book, Ultimate Eatlist. In the follow-up to Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travelist, Ultimate Eatlist travelled the world to research the “definitive foodie bucket-list” of the world’s top 500 food experiences. Each entry details an experience, the culture behind it,

11th August 2018     The Greenwich Curry Club has launched the Spice Card – a discount card for lovers of spicy food in South East London. For just £15 a year local spice fans can enjoy a 20% discount on food for two people (often more) at Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai restaurants and

10th August 2018   Liverpool’, health-focused Chinese restaurant Green Kitchen has launched a £200,000 fund-raise on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to fund expansion plans. The company, founded by Liang Zhang and Stewart Parker, is offering 11.61% equity in return for the investment.   Green Kitchen began as a food delivery service in 2015 before opening its

9th July 2018   Leicester-based western Chinese restaurant Karamay has launched a rotary hotpot concept for its second site in the city. Karamay Hotpot has opened in London Road and claims to be the first rotary hotpot restaurant in the UK.   The all-you-can-eat concept sees diners help themselves to food from a conveyor belt