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This page lists links to all the Michelin-star restaurants in the UK. It also has other great stuff about Michelin-star restaurants all collected in one area to make it easier to find the information.
Posted: 06 Oct 2011 | FULL ARTICLE
The Caterersearch.com 100 brings you the 100 most influential people whose achievements are having the biggest impact upon the hospitality industry in 2010. It tells you where they’ve been, where they are now and where they are going.
Posted: 10 Aug 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
René Redzepi is the half-Danish, half-Macedonian head chef and co-owner of Noma, the two-Michelin star restaurant in Copenhagen that is at the very forefront of the emergent New Nordic cuisine.
Posted: 27 Apr 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
Ask anybody in hospitality who they think of upon hearing the word “wine” and the answer will be unanimous: Gérard Basset . Basset, the co-founder of Hotel du Vin and now co-owner, with wife, Nina, of Hotel Terravina in the New Forest, is the only person in the world to hold the combined titles of Master of Wine, Master Sommelier, Wine MBA and, as of April 2010, World's Best Sommelier.
Posted: 26 Apr 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
Now in its second year, Identità London is an annual international gastronomic congress held at London’s Vinopolis. Founded by Italian food editor Paolo Marchi, Identita London is based on Identita Golose which was founded six years ago by Marchi.
Posted: 23 Apr 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
This page lists links to all the AA-listed five- to three-rosette restaurants in the UK. It also has other great stuff about AA-rosette restaurants all collected in one area to make it easier to find the information.
Posted: 23 Feb 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
British Tourism Week (15-21 March 2010) aims to demonstrate the critical value of tourism to the economy of the United Kingdom.
Ferran Adrià is one of the world’s best known chefs, despite the fact that only 8,000 diners per year – out of 500,000 applicants - actually get to eat at El Bulli, his three-Michelin-starred restaurant on the north Catalan coast near Barcelona, Spain.
Posted: 05 Feb 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
The School Meals Matter campaign, in association with the Local Authority Caterers Association (LACA), is designed to promote the importance of healthy, nutritious school meals and keep school meals provision at the top of the political agenda.
Posted: 04 Feb 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
In 1991, Richard and Peter Harden quit their sensible jobs in finance to start the guide. The spur was their belief that “London needed a truly useful restaurant guide”. The brothers added a UK guide in 1998. For the last seven years, their guides have been sponsored by Rémy Martin Fine Champagne Cognac.
Posted: 02 Nov 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Victor Ceserani, who celebrated his 90th birthday last week, is the chef, teacher and author who pioneered catering education in the UK during his 30 years or so as head of catering at Ealing College.
Posted: 28 Oct 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
NSMW is the biggest national healthy eating awareness week about school meals in Britain. It takes place from 9 to 13 November 2009 with the support of the School Food Trust. It encourages everyone to "Get Involved" in promoting healthy school dinners in Primary and Secondary Schools.
Posted: 21 Oct 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Sat Bains is the chef-proprietor of Restaurant Sat Bains with Rooms on the outskirts of Nottingham, which won the city’s first Michelin star in 2003.
Posted: 28 Sep 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Heston Blumenthal is the culinary alchemist whose appliance of science to the art of cooking (called molecular gastronomy by some and kitchen science by Heston Blumenthal) makes eating at his Fat Duck restaurant in Bray an innovative and revolutionary experience.
Posted: 23 Sep 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Tom Aikens is a Michelin-starred chef who combines a bad-boy image with the reputation for original, subtle and intense cuisine. He has suffered from administration and closures but continues to win accolades for his cooking.
Pierre Koffmann is the iconic French chef whose name has been synonymous with the finest French food since 1972, when he cooked alongside Michel Roux at the Waterside Inn in Bray, Berkshire.
Posted: 22 Sep 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
McDonald's opened its first franchised US restaurant in Illinois 1955 and its first UK restaurant in London in 1974.
Punch Taverns is the largest pub operator in the UK, with more than 7,600 leased, tenanted and managed pubs.
The Acorn Scholarship is an independent award created by previous winners of Caterer and Hotelkeeper’s Acorn Awards. Now in it’s 8th year, the Scholarship’s objective is to seek out talented individuals within the catering and hospitality industry and help them realise their ambitions and reward their determination.
Posted: 18 Sep 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Twitter first entered public consciousness as the platform used by celebrities such as Stephen Fry, Jonathan Ross and Lily Allen to reveal their innermost thoughts/witter on about nothing much, but as the recession hit marketing budgets, hospitality operators have begun to realise its value as a free and effective way of promoting themselves.
Posted: 17 Sep 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
The term “credit crunch” has gone from technical financial jargon - referring to the sudden reduction in the general availability of loans and the increasing cost of obtaining them - to become pretty much everyday language.
The issue of tips in restaurants has been thrust back into the public consciousness with the launch of the Independent’s fair tips campaign and continuation of the Daily Mirror backed Unite union’s call for fair tips.
Posted: 15 Sep 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Keith Floyd became a household name by becoming the first TV chef to step out of the studio and cook on location, where his love and enjoyment of food and wine oozed out of the small screen.
No sooner had the air cleared from the smoking ban than the dangers of alcohol reared its head. Overall levels of alcohol consumption by the general public have increased rapidly over the past 10 years as we all drink more wine, spirits and alco-pops (but we all drink less beer) and the term binge-drinking has entered the national vocabulary.
Each week, Caterer catches up with the movers and shakers of the hospitality industry in our Minute on the Clock interview.
Posted: 04 Sep 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Kenny 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 Jun 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Glynn Purnell is chef-proprietor of Michelin-starred Purnell’s restaurant in Birmingham. He opened the restaurant in 2007 after receiving critical acclaim at Jessica’s restaurant, where he was proud to become the first chef in the city to win a Michelin star in 2005.
Posted: 18 May 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Nigel Haworth is the chef-proprietor of Northcote, the multi-award winning country house hotel and restaurant in Langho, Lancashire, which he has co-owned with Craig Bancroft since 1989.
Dominic Chapman is the award winning head chef of The Royal Oak, the pub owned by chat show veteran Sir Michael Parkinson and his son Nick in Paley Street, Berkshire.
Posted: 14 May 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Kit Chapman is the owner of The Castle Hotel in Taunton, Somerset, as well as being a widely respected champion of British cooking, writer, and leading activist within the hospitality industry.
Hell’s Kitchen UK is an ITV-based reality show. There have been three series of Hell’s Kitchen in the UK and a further series, fronted by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, called Hell’s Kitchen USA in the States.
Posted: 24 Apr 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
The first Gourmet Abu Dhabi festival took place in February 2009; its aim, to put the UAE city on the world culinary map by attracting some of the world’s most high-profile chefs to the headline the event by hosting a series of culinary masterclasses, discussions and gourmet dinners.
Posted: 14 Apr 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
The Real Food Festival, which counts Caterersearch.com among its sponsors, returns for a second showing at London’s Earls Court this May after its successful debut last year.
Posted: 09 Apr 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
The Caterersearch AA hotel listing gives all the AA's top-rated red-star hotels across all categories in Great Britain and Ireland. The list also includes all the AA-listed five-star properties, whether black or red star.
Posted: 12 Feb 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Antony Worrall Thompson is a British celebrity chef and restaurateur. Affectionately known as Wozza, or AWT, he has been a regular fixture on the popular TV programmes Ready Steady Cook and Saturday Kitchen.
Posted: 10 Feb 2009 | FULL ARTICLE
Chef Marcus Wareing was born in Churchtown in Lancashire in 1970 and is currently chef-patron of the two-Michelin-starred Petrus restaurant at the Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge, London, the one-Michelin-starred Savoy Grill and Banquette, an American-style diner at the Savoy. The restaurants are part of Gordon Ramsay Holdings.
Posted: 25 Sep 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
Raymond Blanc is the Michelin winning owner of Oxfordshire’s Le Manor Aux Quat’ Saisons and star of BBC 2 reality show The Restaurant.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
The Acorn Scholarship is an independent award created by previous winners of Caterer and Hotelkeeper’s Acorn Awards.
Posted: 03 Sep 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
Brothers Albert and Michel Roux are viewed as the godfathers of modern restaurant cuisine in the UK. They put Britain on the culinary map; raised standards across the board through their ground-breaking Michelin-starred restaurants, TV series, and books; and trained and encouraged many of today’s top chefs.
Posted: 21 Aug 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
Food inflation has dominated the headlines in recent months and whether you’re running a pub, providing school meals or operating a restaurant increased food prices have now become a significant business challenge.
Posted: 18 Jun 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
Marco Pierre White recently burst back into the public eye as Gordon Ramsay’s successor to host ITV’s Hells Kitchen series but the volatile chef and restaurateur forged his place in history more than 20 years ago.
Posted: 07 May 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
Jason Atherton is a leading light in Gordon Ramsay’s Michelin-star-studded stable of protégés, but the 36-year-old chef was making his own waves in the culinary world before he joined forces with the Hell’s Kitchen star.
Posted: 02 May 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
Angela Hartnett, a protégé of multiple-Michelin-starred chef-restaurateur Gordon Ramsay, is Britain’s highest profile female chef and, like her boss, has become a familiar face on TV.
Healthy eating appears to be on the agenda for most sectors on the industry, be it Jamie Oliver's campaign to get kids eating better food in schools to the working lunch for adults. Read a selection of news on healthy eating from across the industry below.
Posted: 30 Apr 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
Claire Clark, the executive pastry chef at Thomas Keller’s three-Michelin-star The French Laundry restaurant in California, is regarded as one of the top three pastry chefs in the world today.
Posted: 24 Apr 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
David Everitt-Matthias is the chef-patron of the 40-seat Le Champignon Sauvage in the Gloucestershire spa town of Cheltenham.
Chef-restaurateur Arthur Potts Dawson is the co-founder and executive head chef/director of London’s first eco-friendly training restaurants, the 66-seat, two-AA-rosette Acorn House and the 64-seat Water House.
According to the Wine and Spirit Association consumer expenditure on Alcoholic Drinks was about £41.3b in 2006, with £14.5b spent on wine.
Posted: 09 Apr 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
The Government has announced that the National Minimum Wage for those above 22 years of age will rise from £5.52 to £5.73 per hour in October.
Posted: 05 Mar 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
Foie gras is the food that divides the dinner table. On the one side there are those who consider the fatty duck or goose liver the ultimate delicacy; while on the other there are those whose concerns over its production make them push their plates aside.
Posted: 27 Feb 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
The UK pubs and bars industry employed 297,600 people in 2006, a figure that has gradually fallen from its peak of 383,100 bar and pub jobs in 2000, but it remains the second largest employer in the hospitality industry after restaurants.
Posted: 08 Jan 2008 | FULL ARTICLE
Owned by the Whitbread group, Premier Inn (formerly Premier Travel Inn), is not just the UK’s biggest budget hotel chain, it is the largest player in the overall UK hotel market by bedroom numbers.
Posted: 18 Dec 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Greene King is one of the oldest and largest brewers and pub operators in the UK with over 2,500 pubs and more than 14,000 staff.
Posted: 12 Dec 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Caterer and Hotelkeeper has launched a new campaign called Be Aware to highlight the worrying level of drug and alcohol misuse in the hospitality industry.
Posted: 06 Dec 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Fifteen restaurant opened in east London in 2002, with the aim of both opening a top class restaurant and giving disadvantaged young people the opportunity to gain professional training that would set them up for an independent, inspired and productive life.
Posted: 05 Dec 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
All the latest hotel news from the UK hotel industry which saw more than 140 new hotels opened in the UK.
Posted: 29 Nov 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
The UK contract catering market is worth almost £3.8b in annual turnover and from more than 17,000 outlets serves 1.54 billion meals a year and employees nearly 115,000 people.
Posted: 10 Oct 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Here you can find all the latest video recipe masterclasses from professional chefs, bringing a wide range of modern and classical cuisine and cooking techniques to life.
Posted: 27 Sep 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Caterer went green for a month in October. We had special "green" features, case studies on environmentally friendly operators, specific hospitality industry research on the environmental agenda, and plenty of comment and debate. This page rounds up of all our green coverage.
Posted: 09 Aug 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
The recent £10b takeover of Hilton Hotels Corporation by US buyout giant Blackstone has signalled a gathering of pace of private equity ownership in the hospitality sector.
Posted: 02 Aug 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
From your local boozer to the latest gastropub the pubs and bars market has changed inordinately. No longer is the industry just about two pints and a packet of crisps: food sales have become just as vital to the fortunes of pubs and bars as drink is.
Posted: 19 Jul 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
From fine dining restaurants to high-street chains, recent research suggests that the UK restaurant sector is experiencing unprecedented growth with business confidence among restaurateurs soaring.
Posted: 12 Jul 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Tax is not normally an subject to make the heart flutter, but there was more than a ripple of excitement in hospitality circles last year when the government announced that hotels and restaurants were allowed to become part of a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).
Posted: 21 Jun 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Immigration continues to make headlines and with the UK hospitality industry as reliant on foreign workers to mitigate the ongoing skills crisis as it has ever been it’s an issue that remains pertinent. Below is a collection of news, opinions and advice to help you stay on the right side of immigration law.
Posted: 06 Jun 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Duck is a small but growing component of the UK poultry market where, according to the British Poultry Council, it now accounts for 5% of the primary meat market.
Posted: 30 Mar 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Little Chef is one of the most iconic brands in the UK. Equally loved and loathed, Little Chef has been serving motorists food since Britain’s first motorway opened in 1958.
Posted: 20 Mar 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Compass is not only the dominant player in the UK’s £3.768b foodservice market – it is the largest contract caterer in the world. It generates annual sales of around £11b and employs in excess of 400,000 people in more than 90 countries.
Posted: 15 Mar 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Travelodge became the UK’s first budget hotel brand when it opened its first venue in Britian in the 1980s. It it is now the UK's second largest player in the limited-service sector (after Whitbread’s Premier Travel Inn) and, by bedroom numbers, it is the country's third biggest hotel operator.
Posted: 08 Mar 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Jamie Oliver is the Essex-born celebrity chef whose media career has made him one of Britain’s most famous exports.
Posted: 19 Feb 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
This page lists all you ever wanted to know about Gordon Ramsay, including latest news, analysis, features, recipes, reviews, blogs and TV clips.
Posted: 15 Feb 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
With the Government finally announcing England will join the rest of the UK and introduce a smoking ban in enclosed public places on 1 July 2007 now is the time to finalise your businesses’ preparations if you haven’t already done so.
Posted: 14 Feb 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
A round-up of news and features on the school dinners dilemma.
Posted: 01 Feb 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
Calling all chefs! It’s time to get e-mailing, phoning and form-filling to guarantee your place at the 2008 Chef Conference. Our 26th celebration of the best that British and overseas chefdom has to offer has a (literally) stellar cast of speakers lined up that range from past masters to the newest high-fliers, along with in-depth interview and interactive craft demonstrations.
Posted: 22 Jan 2007 | FULL ARTICLE
The London Olympics in 2012 represent a huge opportunity to showcase Britain to the world and to boost the country’s tourism industry before, during and after the games.
Posted: 22 Nov 2006 | FULL ARTICLE
On 24 November 2005, England and Wales completed the biggest shake-up in alcohol licensing for 40 years.
Posted: 15 Nov 2006 | FULL ARTICLE
HM Revenue and Customs has finally released its new E24 guidelines on tronc – and is a huge retreat from its previous position.
Posted: 26 Oct 2006 | FULL ARTICLE
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