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Jakarta bombers posed as hotel guests - For more hospitality stories, see what the weekend papers say

The weekend papersA round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Little Chef's roll-out plan for Blumenthal menu; TV chef Richard Phillips under fire over tips; Arab Investment tables bid for Coffee Republic; celebrity chef to buy fruit and veg from school garden and more ...
Posted: 20 July 2009 | 10:37

Top chefs lead annual campaign against child hunger

Restaurants Against HungerTop UK chefs – including Catey Lifetime Achievement winner Raymond Blanc – are leading the campaign to sign up participants for this year’s Restaurants Against Hunger fundraising month. A high-profile media campaign will encourage consumers to ‘Fight Hunger. Eat Out’ at participating restaurants ...
Posted: 10 July 2009 | 15:56

Video interview: Michelin-starred-chef Angela Hartnett becomes the first female chef to win the Catey Chef Award 

Angela Hartnett was one of the big winners at this week’s Cateys, picking up the coveted Chef Award.
Posted: 10 July 2009 | 07:00

Heston Blumenthal signs up for Chef Conference

Heston BlumenthalHeston Blumenthal, the chef-proprietor of Bray’s three-Michelin-starred Fat Duck, has agreed to appear at the Caterer and Hotelkeeper Chef Conference. Blumenthal, who has just confirmed that he will be opening a 140-seat restaurant in London’s Mandarin Oriental hotel in 2010 ...
Posted: 25 June 2009 | 16:49

Heston Blumenthal restaurant will open in London Mandarin Oriental

Heston Blumenthal: set to make his London debutHeston Blumenthal, chef proprietor of the three-Michelin-starred Fat Duck, has confirmed that he will be opening a restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in London. The move, first revealed by Caterersearch in April, will see Blumenthal taking over the site currently occupied by Foliage ...
Posted: 24 June 2009 | 16:41

Jean-Christophe Novelli gets injunction against new White Horse owner

Jean-Christophe NovelliCelebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli has obtained an injunction to stop the new owners of the White Horse in Harpenden – which he used to consult on - from using his name. The High Court interim order obliges Urban and Country Inns, which bought the White House in January...
Posted: 23 June 2009 | 17:11

Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud set to open restaurant In London

Daniel Boulud: coming hereMichelin-starred French chef Daniel Boulud is looking to open his first restaurant in the UK, Caterersearch can reveal. Lyon-born Boulud is understood to be looking at several opportunities in London for his next venture. One of these is believed to be the former Grill in Hyde Park’s luxury hotel ...
Posted: 22 June 2009 | 07:30

Celebrity chefs thrash food critics at Taste of London challenge

Antonio Carluccio: part of the winning teamA team of celebrity chefs beat some of the nation’s best known food critics in an ingredient taste-challenge held in support of charity Action Against Hunger at Taste of London last night. The celebrity chefs, who included Antonio Carluccio, Oliver Rowe and Anna Hansen ...
Posted: 19 June 2009 | 16:28

Friday Wrap: A round-up of the week's hospitality news

Chris DruceCaterer Best for Business participant the Taverners pub in Godshill on the Isle of Wight has been recommended in the Guardian’s "Guide to Summer Pub"s, which isn't bad going. For all the latest in the series see our Best for Business page.
Posted: 19 June 2009 | 14:20

Hospitality figures in 2009 Queens’ Birthday Honours List

Garry Hawkes, one of two hospitality figures to gain a KnighthoodThe hospitality industry was well represented in the 2009 Queens’ Birthday Honours List, including two Knighthoods. Veteran contract caterer Garry Hawkes CBE, was awarded a Knighthood for his services to business and to vocational training. Hawkes, who was until recently chairman of ...
Posted: 15 June 2009 | 12:34

Egyptian tycoon to buy London’s Stafford hotel for £75m - For more hospitality stories, see what the weekend papers say

The weekend papersA round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: Lloyds makes £450m loss on Admiral Tavern; Reuben brothers make £48m bid for Premium Bars and Restaurants; Fergus Henderson learns Eritrean cooking to support refugees; Premier Inn launches price war ...
Posted: 15 June 2009 | 10:27

Heston Blumenthal working on NHS hospital food project

Heston BlumenthalMichelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal has revealed that he is attempting to do what Jamie Oliver did for school meals in the NHS with hospital food. Heston Blumenthal, owner of the three Michelin-starred Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, Berkshire, told delegates at the Cheltenham ...
Posted: 09 June 2009 | 12:19

Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing battle over the real Pétrus - For more hospitality stories, see what the weekend papers say

The weekend papersA round-up of the weekend's news affecting the hospitality industry. News includes: New tipping laws may not benefit staff; Pret and Itsu ban bluefin tuna ; Starwood seeks €300m for landmark Paris hotel; profits fall at Firmdale Hotels;; detective seeks male partners of missing chef
Posted: 08 June 2009 | 10:20

Charity run for the Galvin Chance Project

Chris GalvinNearly 4.5km around Hyde Park and then haring up the stairs at the Hilton tower - who'd be mad enough to do that? Well, thanks to the hard work of the folk at the Galvin at Windows restaurant, and with money raised going to a charity for disadvantaged youngsters, Michel Roux Jnr, Olympic medallist Roger Black and former England footballer Graeme Le Saux are among those who have signed up to take part in a race that's bound to be the highlight of London's sporting summer.
Posted: 05 June 2009 | 16:43

Gordon Ramsay to relaunch Pétrus in September

The dining room at the relaunched Pétrus Gordon Ramsay Holdings is to relaunch its former Michelin-starred Pétrus restaurant in London this September. GRH company lost the previous Pétrus site at the Berkeley hotel after chef patron Marcus Wareing left the company to work directly with the Maybourne Hotel Group-...
Posted: 05 June 2009 | 16:19

Celebrity chef cult will survive financial problems

Gordon Ramsay has had to take some unpleasant decisions to save his businessThe cult of the celebrity chef isn't dead, despite the high-profile difficulties of Gordon Ramsay and John Burton Race, industry figures have insisted. Last weekend, Ramsay publicly admitted for the first time that his restaurant business came close to collapse earlier this year.
Posted: 05 June 2009 | 15:49

Friday Wrap: A round-up of the week's hospitality news

Chris DruceTo celebrate the re-opening of the Waterside Inn following the new kitchen installation, Hobart is offering one lucky Caterersearch reader dinner for two at The Waterside Inn, including a glass of Champagne on arrival. Six lucky runners up will win a signed copy of Michel Roux's latest book, Pastry.
Posted: 05 June 2009 | 15:01

Kenny Atkinson

Kenny AtkinsonKenny Atkinson is head chef of The White Room restaurant at Seaham Hall, a small luxury hotel in Seaham, County Durham. He retained the hotel’s Michelin star in January 2009, just six months after being appointed to the post.
Posted: 02 June 2009 | 17:36

John Burton Race declared bankrupt

John Burton RaceCelebrity chef John Burton Race declared himself bankrupt in March, it emerged this weekend. It comes two months after his ex-wife Kim was herself made bankrupt following an application to the High Court from a creditor who was owed £15,000, according to a report in the Telegraph.
Posted: 01 June 2009 | 11:03

Ramsay admits restaurants came close to collapse

Gordon RamsayGordon Ramsay has publicly admitted for the first time that his restaurant business came close to collapse earlier this year. Speculation was rife in January that Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) had breached covenants on a £10m loan and £500,000 overdraft with Royal Bank of Scotland ...
Posted: 01 June 2009 | 10:34

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