Stressed, angry? Well enough about me but enterprising Spanish hotel chain NH Hoteles is supplying a bit of hotel destruction therapy for on-the-edge local business managers in Madrid.
Yes the stressed managers are being invited to trash one of the chain’s hotels to release their fury in a rock-star style in an alternative approach to hotel demolition.
Superstar chef Gordon Ramsay had landed himself in a spot of legal bother (again) with a chap that took part in the US version of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares threatening to sue after big Gord had him sacked.
It’s also getting pretty heated between Malmaison owner Marylebone Warwick Balfour and major shareholder Mercury Real Estate over Vector, the ill-fated real estate investment trust that failed to make orbit earlier this month.
Aiming for the stars, Michelin awarded chef Claude Bosi has completed the relocation of his highly regarded restaurant Hibiscus from Ludlow, Shropshire, to the mean streets of London (well, Soho).
While the British Beer & Pub Association slammed new drinking rules, former Italian president Silvio Berlusconi did much the same with his countrymen’s prolific use of garlic in cooking and launched a campaign to get the herb banned.
That might not keep the Count or any other vampires but the countdown to the England smoking ban is well and truly on its way, with all important public support continuing to rise.
The Alternative Hotel Group has snapped up caterer Searcy’s as did D&D London, formerly Conran Restaurants, with Image Restaurants.
Well done to last week’s Taste of London ticket winners. David Hughes, Helen Applin, Dina Tabet-Mayer, Alison Cole, Colin Wise, George Pickard, Adrian Colegate, David Ravel, Nick Mattinson and Aimee Shanahan.