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Wivenhoe House, the luxury country house hotel in Colchester which will be home to the Edge Hotel School, has appointed Paul Boorman as executive chef. Former Essex Chef of the Year, Boorman was head chef at the Juniper restaurant at Clarice House in Colchester when it was named Essex Restaurant of the Year 2009.
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 16:50
French bistro Le Bouchon Breton in London's Spitalfields has appointed Christophe Dittrich as its new head chef. Dittrich joins the restaurant having formerly run kitchens for French restaurant chain Chez Gerard at sites in London's West End as well as Bishopsgate in the City and Cambridge.
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 16:36
The four-star, 174-bedroom Hotel La Tour - the first in what is intended to be a group of five hotels within five years - has opened in Birmingham city centre. Developed at a cost of £24m, the hotel includes a restaurant and bar inspired by Marcus Wareing.
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 16:00
The Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) has welcomed the introduction of pro-pub policies in the new National Planning Policy Framework. Under the guidelines, councils will have a duty to "plan positively" for key local facilities like pubs - and this will apply to all pubs rather than just...
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 15:04
Easter arrived early for two competition winners checking into a unique bedroom at London's Cavendish hotel on Monday. With the help of students from Westminster Kingsway College, the four-star, 230-bedroom hotel created what is believed to be the UK's first edible chocolate hotel room.
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 13:17
The new chief executive of Malmaison and Hotel du Vin hotel plans to open six new hotels, but has called a halt to the expansion of the Bistro du Vin group of stand-alone restaurants. Gary Davis told Caterer and Hotelkeeper that he intended to revitalise the two brands and make them more distinctive.
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 13:07
Challenging economic conditions in the UK and parts of Europe will slow growth for the first six months of the year at Compass Group, compared with the same period the year before. The world's largest caterer said it expects total revenue growth to be about 8.5% in the half-year to 31 March 2012 with like-for-like growth increasing by nearly 5%.
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 13:05
Double Catey-winning restaurateurs Andrew and Lisa Radford are set to return to the Edinburgh restaurant scene after being forced to close their last business just over a year ago. The launch of the 80-seat Timber Yard in mid-June in the theatre district of the city - situated just below Edinburgh Castle...
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 12:48
Caterplus has won a £300,000 catering contract at a new Milton Keynes retirement village. Shenley Wood Village is the second retirement village in Milton Keynes to be serviced by the contract caterer. It currently provides meals at Lovats Field Village in Willen, which opened in 2007.
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 10:42
D&D London has appointed Mark Jarvis as head chef at the Blueprint Café. Jarvis, who joins the restaurant at the Design Museum on the Shad Thames from the Michelin-starred Texture...
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 10:30
Punch Taverns is trialling a scheme that allows licensees to stock cask ales of 2.8% ABV and below, which qualify for a 50% reduction in beer duty. Licensees that receive their beers from depots in Croydon, south London and Tingley, near Leeds...
Posted: 27 March 2012 | 10:17
A new wave of Responsibility Deal pledges have been announced, one year on from the introduction of Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's approach to improving public health. Compass Group, Unilever and Tesco were among a list of the country's biggest food outlets, manufacturers and supermarkets...
Posted: 26 March 2012 | 17:35
Regional hotels bucked recent trends by outperforming their London peers in February for the first time since August 2009, according to preliminary hotel figures from PKF Hotel Consultancy Services. Rooms yield in London grew by just 0.3% to £101.94 from £101.57 in February 2011.
Posted: 26 March 2012 | 15:54
The largest Hampton by Hilton outside the USA is set to open in Birmingham on 1 May. Situated in the former derelict Cumberland House in Broad Street, the 285-bedroom budget hotel is to be operated by Sanguine Hospitality. It will offer free Wi-Fi throughout and complimentary hot and cold breakfast.
Posted: 26 March 2012 | 15:39
Pabulum has won a new three-year catering contract at the Trafalgar School at Downton, in Wiltshire, worth in excess of £290,000. The Fleet-based independent operator bases its offer around the premise of "honestly good food", which, the company said, had attracted a significant number of education establishments to work with it.
Posted: 26 March 2012 | 12:56
Brewer Heineken is to deliver half a million new branded schooner glasses - the two-third pint measure made legal last October - into the on-trade in 2012. The news came as the company urged pub licensees from Yorkshire and Teesside to boost draught sales by serving beer in schooners.
Posted: 26 March 2012 | 11:33
Marina O'Loughlin has one of the worst meals of her life at Gregg's Table at the Bermondsey Hotel in London, while John Walsh says he feels like he's been fed mediocre tat with a celebrity name attached to it...
Posted: 26 March 2012 | 11:31
John Avery MW, a leading light in the drinks trade, has died aged 70. He passed away in hospital on 23 March following a heart attack in his sleep. The chairman of wine merchant Averys of Bristol, now part of Direct Wines, was regarded by many as a pioneer of the UK trade because of his keen interest in New World wines.
Posted: 26 March 2012 | 11:05
The two-third pint, otherwise known as the schooner, has made few waves since it became a legal measure in October 2011. But almost six months on, and with declining per capita alcohol consumption and ever-rising beer duty, could all that be about to change?
Posted: 26 March 2012 | 10:54
Pizzas from restaurant chains, take-aways and supermarkets contain dangerously high levels of salt, with one pizza at a London restaurant offering a pizza saltier than seawater. That's the finding from new research from pressure group Consensus Action on Salt and Health...
Posted: 26 March 2012 | 10:51
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