Katherine Price

Like-for-like sales at Britain’s leading managed restaurant, pub and bar groups in March were 1.4% ahead of last year’s levels, the new Coffer CGA Business Tracker shows.

Aulis London, Simon Rogan’s chef’s table in Soho, will reopen at the end of May with a new look that has seen the venue double in size with additional seating and a new lounge.

Pip Lacey and Gordy McIntyre have expanded their Hicce hospitality portfolio with the opening of Little Pizza Hicce at the Goodness Brewing Co taproom in north London.

Police are investigating criminal damage at an Essex pub that is itself the subject of an investigation over its display of golliwog dolls.