Belfast
Focused reporting on foodservice activity across Belfast’s key neighbourhoods, including the Cathedral Quarter, Titanic Quarter, Lisburn Road, and the city centre. This section highlights restaurant and pub openings, hotel F&B developments, independent ventures, and supply chain movements shaping trade in Northern Ireland’s capital. With insights tailored to chefs, operators, and hospitality leaders, we cover how regeneration, tourism, and local demand are influencing strategy in one of the UK’s most culturally and commercially dynamic regional markets.
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Jun- 2021 -23 JuneCatering Companies
RA Venues wins Imperial War Museum contract
Restaurant Associates (RA) Venues, a premium hospitality company, has won a contract to provide catering and hospitality services at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) London. Through the three-year contract, RA Venues will be responsible for all food and beverage operations for both day catering and events at the museum. The…
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Jun- 2020 -25 JunePubs and Bars
Diageo launches $100m recovery fund to help pubs and bars
Diageo has today announced a new global programme to support pubs and bars to welcome customers back and recover following the Covid-19 pandemic. ‘Raising the Bar’ will be a two-year programme available from July 2020. Diageo will provide $100m (£80.4m) to support the recovery of major hospitality centres, including: New…
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3 JuneComment
Social distancing will end the restaurant as we know it
Overall, the UK government deserves praise for providing swift financial support to small businesses. Here at Bia Rebel we have availed ourselves of that support and in an attempt to keep our staff and customers safe we stayed closed. However, now that restrictions are being eased somewhat and everyone is…
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May- 2020 -26 MayCoronavirus
Nando’s to reopen 94 sites with additional measures in place
Restaurant chain Nando’s has announced it has opened a further 54 sites for delivery or click and collect today (26 may) and will also reopen an additional 40 sites tomorrow. The news comes after it trialled around six sites in London and Manchester open to delivery for NHS staff last…
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14 MayCafes and Coffee Shops
M&S Cafés begin to reopen for takeaway
Marks and Spencer has revealed plans to reopen 49 café locations across the UK today (14 May). The local cafés will be opening for takeaway hot drinks only, and the chosen locations to open are all based on the café being located next to the in-store Foodhall – meaning customers…
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4 MayComment
What should restaurants learn from the Great COVID Lockdown?
Celebrity chefs like Mark Hix and Gordon Ramsey have had to close some or all of their restaurants due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Other celeb chefs like David Chang say they are unsure if they can reopen after this is all over and predict a bleak future for the sector.…
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Feb- 2020 -28 FebruaryNews
8 great cities in the UK to launch a street food business our guide
Are you considering putting up a food business to break into the hospitality industry? There are many opportunities available to you, and some of them won’t require millions to fund. A street food stall or a food truck are both great models to follow, and you have plenty of options…
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Jan- 2020 -21 JanuaryRestaurants
Restaurant fire in Belfast being treated as arson
A fire which broke out at the Blaze and Glaze restaurant on University Road, Belfast, in the early hours of this morning (21 January) is being treated as arson. According to a report by the BBC, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the incident was being treated as…
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Nov- 2019 -8 NovemberRegulations & Policies
Former Sizzlers chef awarded £15,000 over racial abuse
The owner of the Sizzlers Restaurant in Magherafelt has been ordered to pay £15,000 to a former employee after an employment tribunal found he had been racially abused. Damian Anysz, originally from Poland, was awarded the sum after the tribunal found that former colleague June Fullerton had verbally abused him…
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Aug- 2019 -2 AugustRestaurants
Whitbread to launch Bar + Block Steakhouse in Reading
Whitbread is set to launch a new Bar + Block Steakhouse in reading following a “successful” roll-out in Wimbledon, Belfast and Bristol in 2019. The new steak-focussed all-day casual dining restaurant will open on Reading Road in Winnersh on the 16 August. Bar + Block Winnersh will be a 418…
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