Restaurants

The latest news and updates on restaurants, from the business journalists at Catering Today. We bring you the latest on what’s happening in the restaurants, bars and catering industry, with exclusive stories, analysis, best practice and industry comment.

Jan- 2020 -

31 January

Bonnie Gull shutters Soho site

Soho-based seafood restaurant Bonnie Gull has announced its closure today (31 January), after three years of trading. Announcing the closure on Instagram, the restaurant said: “Sometimes great things too must end. This week we say goodbye to our beloved Bonnie Gull Soho after 3 glorious years of oysters, grilled fish…
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30 January

McDonald’s UK to open 60 restaurants in 2020

McDonald’s UK has revealed it is aiming to open a further 60 restaurants across the UK and Ireland as it prepares to invest £1bn over the next three years. The news comes as McDonald’s revealed that global sales for the year ending 31 December 2019 passed $100bn (£76.7bn), with consolidated…
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29 January

Zia Lucia to open its fourth restaurant site

Independent pizzeria, Zia Lucia, will open its fourth permanent site in Aldgate East on 7 February 2020. Following on from the launch of the first Zia Lucia in Islington in 2016, Hammersmith in 2018 and Boxpark Wembley in 2019, founders Claudio Vescovo and Gianluca D’Angelo are set to bring its…
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29 January

Gizzi Erskine announces three-month London residency

Chef, food writer and broadcaster Gizzi Erskine will be joining St Martins Lane London for a three-month residency. The Nitery by Gizzi Erskine will run from St Martins Lane Kitchen between 13 February and 30 April 2020, bringing “playful” take on classic French, American and British dishes with “carefully sourced…
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29 January

Bird Brixton set to open on Electric Avenue

Fried chicken and waffle chain Bird has announced the opening of its first new site in 2020 on Electric Avenue in Brixton. The new 40-cover site will feature classic Bird dishes including fried chicken and waffles served with honey butter and Canadian maple syrup, their trademark Waffle Burger and their…
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28 January

Five Guys, @pizza and Yo! to open at Edinburgh St. James

Edinburgh St James has announced that restaurant brands Five Guys, @pizza and Yo! are all set top open at the £1m development. @pizza, the Edinburgh-based brand whose offer centres around an open kitchen and counter service where customers can choose from a total of 64,000 possible topping combinations, has committed…
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28 January

Baba G’s closes first bricks-and-mortar site in Camden

Street food trader Baba G’s has closed its first bricks-and-mortar restaurant in Camden Market, after less than a year. The Indian-inspired burger restaurant opened its 50-cover site in Camden in May last year. A statement posted on its social media platforms announced the closure, and read: “Just a little announcement…
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27 January

D&D to launch Birmingham rooftop restaurant

Restaurant and bar group D and D London announced it will launch a new rooftop restaurant in Birmingham. The new restaurant will be sited at 103 Colmore Row, which is set to be Birmingham’s tallest office tower. Sterling Property Ventures, who are developing the site, has agreed a 25 year…
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27 January

Panoramic 34 appoints new head chef

Liverpool restaurant Panoramic 34 has announced the appointment of Elliot Hill as its new head chef. The restaurant said that Hill will bring a “unique” style of cooking to Panoramic, and that the front of house and kitchen team are “hugely excited with the new developments that are planned under…
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27 January

The Pompadour restaurant in Edinburgh closes after 95 years

The Pompadour restaurant at The Caledonian hotel in Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh officially shut its doors yesterday (26 January) after 95 years in the city. A statement posted on the restaurants’ social media platforms said: “After careful consideration, we confirm that we will close our doors for the last time this…
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