Queer Brewing Project founder Lily Waite will be attending this year’s Cambridge Beer Festival’s opening night (20 May) for a conversation about equality, diversity and the LGBTQ community with award-winning beer writer Emma Inch. The Queer Brewing Project aims to ...

Michelin trained Richard Warrington (43) has joined the highly acclaimed Empire Room restaurant in Ramsgate in Kent, as its Head Chef. The cosy, club like Empire Room, located in the boutique Royal Harbour Hotel, is led by hotelier James Thomas ...

Applications are officially open for the 2020 National Fish & Chip Awards, marking the start of a nine-month quest to find the UK’s very best fish and chip businesses. These national awards, which celebrate excellence in the industry that creates ...

Derek Maher has been appointed as the new Chair of ceda with Kirstin Hatherley joining him as Vice-Chair. The two appointments were announced at ceda’s 2019 Conference along with the appointment of two new regional Chairs for the North and ...

Leaders from Scotland’s hospitality and tourism sectors will gather for the Hospitality Industry Trust (HIT) Scotland’s inaugural Leadership Development Conference on 9th May. Held at Gleneagles, the one-day event is focused on developing managers’ leadership style to drive change within ...

The south-east London based, Cityglen Pub Company, is set to open its sixth pub, The Great Southern, this May in Gipsy Hill, South East London. Named after a steam train and next door the station, the site, formerly the Gipsy ...

Small business Minister Kelly Tolhurst has announced the launch of the first statutory government review of the pubs code and pubs code adjudicator. The review will span a 12 week period and will be inviting feedback from pub operating businesses ...

Greene King has officially launched its LGBT+ Network, The Village Greene, at the City of Quebec, London which is thought to be the city’s oldest LGBT+ pub. The network, which has been set-up by employees at the pub company, already ...

Takeaway delivery service Deliveroo has teamed up with Oxford-based cleantech company Oxwash to trial a service where takeaway containers can be washed and reused. Trials will begin in August allowing Deliveroo to collect containers from customers so that they can ...

Sales of rum continue to rise, with almost 35 million bottles sold worth just over £1 billion in 2018. Total UK spirit sales last year were worth just over £11 billion, with rum the standout performer alongside gin, as Brits’ ...