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A Cambridge restaurant and wine bar is to highlight the punitive level of duty levied on beer - by offering customers a tax-free pint in the afternoons. Customers of d'Arry's Cookhouse and Wineshop on Cambridge's King Street will be able to buy pints of beer at £1.30 off the normal price.
Posted: 22 March 2012 | 12:55
Take-away restaurants have expressed dismay at the Government's move, announced in yesterday's Budget, to close a loophole relating to the way in which VAT is charged on hot take-away food. Chancellor George Osborne alluded to the proposed changes in his address to the House of Commons.
Posted: 22 March 2012 | 12:39
North-west-based pub, restaurant and hotel group Ainscoughs has added a ninth hospitality business to its estate after it bought and refurbished the Ring O'Bells in Lathom, near Ormskirk in Lancashire.
Posted: 22 March 2012 | 11:32
The British Institute of Innkeeping (BII) has released its new 2012 'budget calculator', designed to help pubs calculate the effects of the latest Budget on their business. The calculator uses Microsoft Excel, and has been developed...
Posted: 22 March 2012 | 11:15
Salaries among food and beverage professionals in City hotels in London have risen by over 25% in the past year, helped by a boom in fine dining in a city that now boasts 55 Michelin-starred restaurants. The findings come as part of a new survey by HVS Executive Search...
Posted: 22 March 2012 | 10:02
Adam Bennett, head chef at Simpson's Edgbaston and the UK's Bocuse d'Or candidate, has secured a place in the world final of the Bocuse d'Or by coming sixth in the Bocuse d'Or Europe in Brussels and winning the best meat prize.
Posted: 22 March 2012 | 09:58
Italian restaurant Ilia in South Kensington has closed, with a new owner planning to reopen the site with a new concept later this year. Formerly French restaurant Papillon, owners Soren Jessen and Giuliano Lotto relaunched the site as Ilia at the end of 2010, with chef Omar Agostini heading up the kitchen.
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 18:11
A bridegroom who deliberately started a fire in the drawing room of a hotel, causing £6m worth of damage, has been sentenced to six years in jail.
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 17:50
Chancellor George Osborne has missed an opportunity in today's Budget to create more jobs by making the UK's hospitality and tourism industry competitive with other European countries, according to the British Hospitality Association (BHA). Although he welcomed many measures in the Budget, Martin Couchman...
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 16:38
The pub and brewing industries have roundly condemned today's news in the Budget that the alcohol duty escalator will remain in place. Here are just some of the comments from figures across the industry...
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 15:53
Pubs need to emulate successful high street restaurant operations, as they combat falling drinks sales. That's the message from Peter Backman, managing director of food service consultancy Horizons...
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 14:56
Chancellor George Osborne's 2012 Budget has proved to be yet another disappointing one for pubs, having appeared to make no changes to the way in which alcohol is taxed. That means that the beer duty escalator...
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 14:02
Taking Off in the Hotel Trade – How former Vulcan bomber navigator Anthony Lloyd built a successful hotel from scratch with no prior industry experience. Foie Gras: Delicacy or Cruelty? As more and more businesses cede to campaigners' pressure and drop foie gras, is the game nearly up for the butter delicacy?
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 12:40
Designed to offer practical solutions for managers across all sectors of hospitality, the Caterer and Hotelkeeper Business Summit has been launched as a one-day forum for operators looking to maximise their businesses potential.
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 11:40
Marston's is to bring back Sunbeam as a guest ale in a summer filled with cultural and sporting events. The 4.2% ABV ale was first introduced last year, brewed by Banks's Brewery in Wolverhampton to mark the 10th anniversary celebrations of Wolverhampton's city status...
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 11:37
Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at US-based Brooklyn Brewery, has won the drink category in the André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards for his book the Oxford Companion to Beer (published by Oxford University Press). It is only the second beer book ever to win in this category since its inception.
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 11:29
Cairn Group is to open its latest bar, Zio, at the Holiday Inn Newcastle-Jesmond hotel. The company owns more than 20 bars, hotels and restaurants across the UK, including the Holiday Inn Newcastle-Jesmond...
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 11:00
Pub company Mitchells & Butlers has appointed Edward Irwin as a non-executive director. Irwin is a representative of Elpida, a significant shareholder in Mitchells & Butlers, owned by Irish tycoons JP McManus and John Magnier. Irwin is the finance director of Coolmore, a thoroughbred horse breeding company.
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 11:00
Michelin-starred chefs turned out in force yesterday at the Wellocks’ The Perfect Ingredient Show 2012 held in Nelson, Lancashire. The chefs, who included Sat Bains, Daniel Clifford, John Campbell, Frances Atkins, Michael Wignall and James Mackenzie, were panellists at the chef conference
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 10:26
Ed Wilson and Oli Barker, the owners of London restaurants Terroirs, Brawn and Soif, have confirmed that they will open their fourth site in the capital in September. The new restaurant will be called Green Man & French Horn and will be housed in a former pub of the same name.
Posted: 21 March 2012 | 09:58
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