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Formula 1 star Jarno Trulli plans to open the first in a chain of luxury hotels on the Croatian Adriatic coast bearing his name.
(31 March 2006 17:43:00)
Restaurant company Gourmet Holdings suffered a set-back in the first half of its financial year as customers stayed away from its Richoux restaurants after July’s London terror attacks.
(31 March 2006 15:35:00)
The cost of imported beef has rocketed by as much as 30-35% following bans on exports from Argentina and a foot-and-mouth scare in Brazil.
(31 March 2006 12:24:00)
Roadside groups have stepped up their fight to change laws which campaigners say leave motorway service areas "stuck in a time warp".
(31 March 2006 12:24:00)
Tragus Holdings; Win an iPod with Opodo; René Lasserre; Rayner at Chef Conference;
(31 March 2006 12:23:00)
Michelin-starred chef Andrew Pern was awarded the title of Best Chef at the inaugural Northern Hospitality Awards held on Monday night at the Lowry hotel in Manchester.
(31 March 2006 12:05:00)
A former chef is seeking medical help to stop him cooking in the middle of the night, according to today’s Daily Telegraph.
(31 March 2006 10:38:00)
Pub operator Enterprise Inns is trading well despite weak consumer spending and increasing legislative pressure and costs on its licensees.
(31 March 2006 10:38:00)
Allium, Sodexho's fine-dining restaurant in London's Dolphin Square hotel, will shut at the end of next month, after the hotel closes its doors for good on 10 April.
(31 March 2006 10:38:00)
UK restaurant group Clapham House has made an offer to buy rival Urban Dining Group, owner of Tootsies.
(31 March 2006 10:04:00)
East Devon gastropub the Puffing Billy has been bought by two local licensees and restaurateurs.
(30 March 2006 15:58:00)
Hyatt veteran Clifford Grauers is to become the new general manager of London's Great Eastern hotel, Caterer can exclusively reveal.
(30 March 2006 15:58:00)
Calum and Ally Richardson Dobie are the new owners of the Inn at Loch Ericht, an historic Highland inn reputedly visited by Queen Victoria in 1861.
(30 March 2006 15:53:00)
A community pub and backpackers’ hostel in the Monmouthshire market town of Abergavenny has been sold off an asking price of £270,000.
(30 March 2006 15:48:00)
David Davidson, a pub entrepreneur with outlets across the UK, has bought the leasehold on Glasgow’s Rab Ha’s Bar, Restaurant and Hotel.
(30 March 2006 15:44:00)
A former employee is the new owner of the Mountain Inn country freehouse in the small village of Lutton, Devon.
(30 March 2006 15:36:00)
First-time buyers from Maidstone have snapped up the Kentmere Guest House, which sits on one of the main roads into Folkestone in Kent.
(30 March 2006 15:28:00)
The Government’s new points-based immigration scheme could sound the death knell for many of the UK’s curry restaurants, warns Enam Ali.
(30 March 2006 15:07:00)
Compass Group faces its second US lawsuit relating to allegations of bribery and corruption in the awarding of United Nations peacekeeping contracts.
(30 March 2006 14:22:00)
The chef at the centre of a massive sexual harassment payout is to continue working at a famous London private members' club.
(30 March 2006 14:20:00)
Dominic Ford, former director of Harvey Nichols's food and retail division, is returning to London's Oxo Tower, but this time on the second floor.
(30 March 2006 14:19:00)
A Grade II-listed property in Chipping Campden that houses Joel’s restaurant is up for sale for the first time in more than 20 years.
(30 March 2006 12:01:00)
Alpha Airports has admitted that it has lost up to £2.5m as part of a European-wide fraud.
(30 March 2006 11:46:00)
Pub operators and associations in Scotland have attacked the introduction of last weekend's smoking ban as rushed and confused.
(30 March 2006 11:22:00)
Renowned chefs Rainer Becker and Joël Robuchon are both planning new restaurants in Hong Kong, Caterer can exclusively reveal.
(30 March 2006 11:20:00)
Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey is to open a third hotel as part of his group's ambitious expansion plans, Caterer can exclusively reveal.
(30 March 2006 11:20:00)
London hotels saw revenue per available room (revpar) rocket by 35.6% in the week ending 26 March, according to figures from hotel benchmarking service The Bench.
(30 March 2006 11:11:00)
Airport hotels increased revenue per available room (revpar) by 5.1% during the month of February.
(30 March 2006 11:07:00)
London hotels staved off the winter chill in February with a rosy 8.5% boost to revenue per available room (revpar), according to preliminary figures from PKF.
(30 March 2006 11:02:00)
Visit London has teamed up with Transport for London for a £1.25m campaign to attract visitors to the capital.
(30 March 2006 10:23:00)
Imagine being able to offer guests a choice of 300 daily newspapers. Digital newspaper distribution company NewspaperDirect provides a print-on-demand service for even the remotest of hotels...
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
StarLogics' web-based recipe and menu management system, Starchef.net, takes the guesswork out of recipe costing and menu analysis by providing real-time cost calculation of recipes, menus and menu cycles.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
For many modern hotels, employing a concierge to help guests with information about local attractions and services is no longer a viable option. Instead, busy reception staff are often left to deal with their numerous requests.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
The EPnet cashless system from Quintus integrates access control and food service payments on one small card.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
Low-salt, low-fat, fresh, local, GM-free, additive-free, no added sugar - there's a smörgåsbord of buzz words in the catering arena nowadays. But are they getting the point across to consumers? And how are caterers handling the current focus on good health through good nutrition? Antony Adshead finds out
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
I find it rather a poor effort that the "two professional waiters from Scotland" - as opposed to amateur waiters? - who write so robustly in defence of Andrew Fairlie cannot summon up the courage to give us their names.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
Further to the response from two "professional waiters" to Jan Moir's review of Andrew Fairlie's Gleneagles restaurant (Caterer, 23 March, page 23), I find Jan Moir (alongside Jay Rayner of the Observer) to be unchallenged as the UK's best restaurant reviewer.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
Thank you, Linda Woodhouse, for highlighting what a travesty Hotel Babylon was, both in its depiction of the hotel industry in general and the five-star market in particular (Caterer, 16 March, page 23).
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
Your article "Britons are top of dining-out league" (Caterer, 23 March, page 15) contained lots of fascinating information. But, after just a cursory look, much of the report gives rise to scepticism.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
I agree with Grant Hearn, chief executive of Travelodge, about the dangers of a "bed tax" to the health of our industry (Caterer, 23 March, page 22).
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
I refer to James Garner's leader (Caterer, 16 March, page 4), where he reported that Robert Cook had flagged up the HR issue as perhaps the key factor that will inhibit future growth in the hotel industry. I have to say that many top-rated public companies agree with him.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
He won two Michelin stars in London, one in Cannes and then returned to the UK to see it all go wrong at Oxo Tower. Now Richard Neat has resurfaced... in Morocco. Joanna Wood went to meet him
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
The brainchild of Mean Fiddler founder Vince Power, the Pigalle Club is a 1940s-inspired supper club offering live music every night.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
The Ottoman-style interior has been masterminded by Richard Sleeman. Enjoy an affordable Middle Eastern menu in the draped, private booths. Plans are afoot for a basement hammam offering Turkish coffee, meze and fruit-scented hookah pipes.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
Paging specialist Long Range Systems has designed an electronic customer satisfaction system built into a tip-tray so that restaurant operators can get instant feedback from their guests.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
We run a 40-cover neighbourhood restaurant and have noticed our wine sales have fallen in recent weeks. What can we do to improve our wine offer and increase sales?
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
This new addition to the Eclipse brand has been opened by the award-winning Ignite Group. It combines the fresh fruit cocktails the Eclipse brand has become famed for with its own speciality house drinks.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
Pravin Sharma, sous chef at London's Courthouse Hotel Kempinski, has won the Roux Scholarship at his first attempt. Sharma, whose early training was in his native India, was able to successfully reproduce an Escoffier recipe - coulibiac of salmon and sea bass - given to all six competitors just 30 minutes before the cook-off.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
Great French Chefs and Their Recipes is a rare thing: a true chef's book that you can find in high-street booksellers such as Waterstone's.
(30 March 2006 0:00:00)
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