The Editor's Hospitality Blog

Your new-look Caterersearch has been live for a week, now. I trust you are getting maximum value from its blend of news, opinion, jobs, products and recipes. we're hugely excited about the site, and we'll be introducing many new features in the coming months.

Meanwhile, check out our analysis & comment in Caterersearch's daily news channel. It's packed with thought-provoking articles written by industry experts, examining issues such as how to drive up restaurant service quality standards, in the run-in to the 2012 Olympics.

Caterersearch also has lots of information about forthcoming events around the hospitality industry. Speaking of events, if you are a chef that likes to keep abreast of the latest food service trends, you won't want to miss our annual Chef Conference in May. You can find full details in the Recipes channel on the site - along with a host of tried and tested recipes from the country's leading chefs.

Do you ever hit a creative brick wall, when you just can't conjure another recipe from even the deepest, darkest recesses of your mind?
It happens to us all - I have an article that needs to be written by the end of the weekend, and I still haven't been able to come up with a suitably impactful first line. Luckily for you, help is at hand.

Caterersearch's recipe channel offers hundreds of winning recipes from the country's pre-eminent chefs, making menu development a cinch on even the most brain-dead days.

With Blackburn Rovers meeting Manchester United in an FA Cup semi-final this weekend, why not check out our recipe for Lancashire hotpot from Northcote Manor's Nigel Haworth?

The sun is out and the capital's streets are filled with grown men and women in chicken suits, dalek costumes and deep-sea diving suits - it can only be Flora London Marathon weekend.

As ever, there are oodles of runners representing the hospitality industry - and this year we are determined to celebrate as many successes as possible, not just show a picture of Gordon Ramsay and Michel Roux jnr's sprint finish.

Next week on Caterersearch, we'll be listing the finishing times of all hospitality runners who get in touch, and offering a £40 Threshers voucher for the fastest time. To be in with a shout of winning a hamper of booze from Gordon's favourite off license, just email Emily Manson and let her know your time.

Meanwhile, good luck to all the London Marathon runners - including Gordon and Michel Jnr!

Hospitality professionals wishing to purchase a commercial property or compare the value of their property to current market prices now have an invaluable

new tool at their fingertips, thanks to the launch of the Caterersearch property channel.

On our property homepage, you'll find news of all the latest property deals across the industry, including the latest on Claude Bosi's sale of his two Michelin-starred Ludlow restaurant, Hibiscus.

You'll also find our comprehensive, easily searchable database of properties currently on the market. And you'll be able to sign up for our forthcoming property newswire service, which will ensure you are always first to hear of the latest sites to hit the market.

So, whether you are looking for a riverfronting hotel in France, or a characterful village inn in East Essex, make sure you add our property channel to your favourites bar.

This week, Caterersearch features an exclusive interview with arguably the UK's greatest ever chef, Marco Pierre White.

Marco's attentions might these days be focused more upon his expanding restaurant empire; but he will be forever remembered as the first British chef ever to win three Michelin stars, and the world's youngest ever chef to do so. To read his thoughts on Ramsay, handing back Michelin stars and and his decision to head up the third season of TV's Hell's Kitchen, click here.

This week, more than a hundred of hospitality's biggest names and brains converged on London's Grosvenor House Hotel to participate in the judging of the 2007 Catey awards.

Michelin-starred chefs rubbed shoulders with public sector caterers, hotel chain supremos mingled with country-house hoteliers. All involved left the hotel with lips firmly sealed - but I can assure you that our judging panels have once again produced a set of winners that will sit well in the pantheon of previous recipients.

Cateys night this year falls on July 3rd, and you'll find the results of every category - including the Lifetime Achievement Award, which is given every three years and was last won by Anton Mosimann in 2004 - here on Caterersearch on the night.