SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD restaurant brand Rockfish is set to open in Exeter Quay on Monday 18 March following a collaboration between interior architecture studio Macaulay Sinclair and acclaimed restaurateur Mitch Tonks. The studio, which is headed up by co-directors John Macaulay ...

Overseas investment into UK hotels hit £3.4 billion in 2018, the highest level since 2015 (£4.3 billion). Foreign capital accounted for just over half of the total £6.6 billion invested in the sector last year according to Savills. The firm ...

A survey of opening and closures rate in The Core Cities Group, plus London and Edinburgh, has shown that the food and drink scene in Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds city centres has increased by an average of over 19%, whilst ...

Glynn Purnell, who holds a Michelin star at his eponymous restaurant in Birmingham, has announced he is planning to open his third eatery at the Charterhouse in Coventry. The Grade 1 listed 14th Century Carthusian monastery, one of only ten ...

VisitEngland has this week released a series of digital animations to inspire young Brits to take a short break at home in England. The digital clips target young people with images of experiences and activities typically taken during a gap-year ...

Paul Frost, who runs the popular Colston Arms in the centre of Bristol, has taken on the lease of The Langton Court Hotel in St Anne’s and is undertaking a £500,000 refurbishment with Star Pubs & Bars. The pub, the ...

More than 60 chefs and cooks from across Scotland have pledged their support to a new culinary manifesto, which aims to reform Scotland’s hospitality industry from within. Developed by food charity Nourish Scotland in consultation with chefs throughout the country, ...

Ceda have announced that David McDowall and Andrew Archer have joined the growing line-up of speakers booked for this year’s ceda Conference. David McDowall is CEO-Retail at BrewDog, which now has over 80 locations around the globe, leading the day ...

A MasterChef contestant whose use of fresh, honest produce saw her reach the semi-final knock-out stage of this year’s competition has pledged her future to championing the provenance of ingredients. Sarah Dugdale, of Gloucestershire, rose to fame on the popular ...

Farnborough College was last week (6 March) named the winner of the Craft Guild of Chefs’ third annual HEAT competition, open to student chef teams across the country. This year’s contest took place in Jersey, 5-6 March, and saw ‘rising ...