Restaurants

The Restaurants section on Catering Today delivers comprehensive coverage of the UK restaurant industry, from independent operators to national chains. It reports on business performance, openings, acquisitions, and leadership changes, alongside analysis of market trends, menu innovation, and consumer behaviour. With insight into finance, operations, technology, and sustainability, Catering Today provides hospitality professionals with the intelligence and updates shaping commercial strategy across the UK dining landscape.

Mar- 2019 -

19 March

Crussh announces first site opening in partnership with Sodexo

Crussh Fit Food and Juice Bars has opened its first site in partnership with hospitality company Sodexo, at City, University of London, on 18 March 2019. The new kiosk at City will offer the company’s classic menu, offering a range of healthy food from breakfast pots, toasties, salads, wraps and…
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15 March

Santa Nata to open two sites in Covent Garden

Santa Nata is to launch two new Portuguese pastelarias in London’s Covent Garden area. The new sites will specialise in the traditional Portuguese pastry with egg custard filling – Pastel de Nata. Santa Nata will open its first site on Covent Garden’s Russell Street with a second unit opening on…
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15 March

Greene King and TRG among firms ‘failing’ on gender diversity

The Investment Association and the Hampton-Alexander Review have written to 69 of the FTSE 350 companies, including pub group Greene King, outlining concerns about the lack of gender diversity on its boards. The letter, which has been sent to companies who have no women or just one woman on their…
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14 March

Red Dog Saloon to open Louie’s in basement

Red Dog Saloon has announced it is to open a new fried chicken restaurant named Louie’s in its basement. The Shoreditch barbecue restaurant which has been in operation for eight years, will be joined by Louie’s which claims to be the first London restaurant to specialise in fried ‘hot chicken’.…
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13 March

The Ivy Collection’s opening manager joins Carluccio’s

Carluccio’s has appointed Dominika Rusnak as its Fresca openings manager. She joins the group’s senior management team to support the brand’s ‘Fresca’ transformation programme. The restaurant chain’s project Fresca will see the brand transform 20 sites under a £10m investment. There have been a number of strategic hires to drive…
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13 March

Masterchef finalist Dean Banks to open first restaurant

Dean Banks a finalist in the 2018 series of Masterchef: The Professionals, has announced he is to open his first restaurant, located in St Andrews, Scotland. The restaurant, named Haar, will open in the town’s five-star Kinnettles Hotel, and span the whole of the ground floor of the hotel, which…
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12 March

Boxpark to open its first site outside London

Development company, Boxpark, has signed a lease to create a landmark seafront dining destination and community cafe on Shoreham Beach. The Brighton-based firm, who are behind the acclaimed casual dining and retail developments in Shoreditch, Croydon and Wembley, have struck an agreement with Adur District Council to create the Big…
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12 March

Indo Chinese restaurant Fatt Pundit opens in London

Indo Chinese restaurant Fatt Pundit has opened at London’s Soho, launched by the London-based group behind Indian restaurants Bombay Chow, Station 31, and Imperial Lounge. Originating from Kolkata, Indo Chinese was invented when the Hakka people migrated to India from the Chinese province of Canton, bringing with them their culinary…
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12 March

Not Always Caviar partners with Stansted Airport

London Stansted Airport has partnered with food outlet Not Always Caviar to create a new sandwich designed with flavours that are “enhanced” at altitude. Based on scientific food research into the body’s reduced ability to perceive flavours when flying, conducted at the University of London, the new sandwich will include…
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11 March

First Meatliquor restaurant relocates

Meatliquor’s first restaurant which was set for closure has been relocated within London’s Marylebone area. In November last year the chain said it was closing its first site to make way for a luxury hotel, however it will now be reopened just 500 metres away. Meatliquor’s managing director, Scott Collins…
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