Berkshire
Regional reporting on foodservice and hospitality activity across Berkshire, with updates from Reading, Windsor, Newbury, Maidenhead, and Bracknell. This section highlights restaurant and pub openings, rural and commuter-driven trade, premium hotel F&B developments, and supply chain insights. Built for chefs, operators, and hospitality professionals, it offers valuable coverage of trading conditions, investment, and seasonal opportunity in one of South East England’s most economically active counties.
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May- 2024 -24 MayNews
Today’s news in brief – 24/05/24
SSP Group has reported a 19% rise in revenues to £1.5bn in H1. The global travel concessions operator also revealed that it is on track to deliver on its full-year expectations. The group expects FY24 demand for travel to remain resilient despite macroeconomic and political uncertainty. Spaces at The Spine…
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24 MayRestaurants
The Vineyard Hotel opens new OutSide dining concept
The Vineyard Hotel in Newbury, Berkshire, has announced the launch of a brand-new outdoor dining concept: OutSide, expanding its dining options alongside The Tasting Room and The Vineyard Restaurant. Located just 30 minutes from London, OutSide is located opposite The Vineyard’s lobby, amongst the hotel’s manicured gardens, offering diners cocktails,…
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Feb- 2024 -29 FebruaryRestaurants
Welcome Break becomes largest Chopstix franchisee
Welcome Break has become the largest Chopstix franchisee after opening its third store in three months. The new food court unit, in Corley South (M6) services in Warwickshire, opens this week and becomes Welcome Break’s 16th Chopstix site. Corley will follow highly successful openings at the end of 2023 in…
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27 FebruaryBreweries and Distilleries
Siren Craft Brew to open taproom and restaurant at Reading
Berkshire-based brewery Siren Craft Brew is set to open its new taproom and restaurant at Reading’s Station Hill mixed-use development in May this year. Siren has signed a 15-year lease for a 3,800 sq ft space on Friars Walk and will offer its range of locally produced ales, porters and…
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Jan- 2024 -2 JanuaryNews
The Stag & Huntsman relaunches with Sika Inns
The Stag and Huntsman, a country pub and restaurant with rooms in Hambleden Valley, will relaunch in January 2024 with a new Michelin-starred chef and revamped rooms with Sika Inns. The spot, on the Culden Faw Estate just outside Henley on Thames, has been taken over by the newly formed…
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Jul- 2023 -14 JulyPeople
RenMor at The Headland appoints new executive chef
The newly-launched £3m Restaurant RenMor at the five-star Cornish hotel, The Headland, has announced the appointment of Gavin Edney as its new executive chef. Prior to his appointment, Edney spent almost six years as group executive chef for Castlebridge Hospitality, working with Mike Robinson to develop and open The Elder…
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Mar- 2023 -28 MarchRestaurants
Woven by Adam Smith receives Michelin star six months after launch
Woven by Adam Smith has received one Michelin star, presented to executive chef Adam Smith by The Michelin Guide of Great Britain and Ireland within six months of the restaurant’s launch in September 2022. The restaurant is set overlooking 240 acres of Berkshire parkland at Coworth Park, where the menu…
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3 MarchRestaurants
Straits Kitchen at Pan Pacific London appoints new head chef
Straits Kitchen at Pan Pacific London has announced the appointment of Nick Yung as its new head chef. Yung is an expert in south-east Asian cuisine and has trained and worked in Malaysia before moving to the UK. He has over a decade of experience in Cantonese style cooking and…
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Feb- 2023 -21 FebruaryPeople
Oli Williamson to leave Fat Duck
The head chef at Fat Duck, Heston Blumenthal’s Berkshire restaurant, Oli Williamson has announced he is set to leave his role. Williamson will leave on 11 March 2023 having joined Fat Duck in 2020. He was promoted to head chef in 2022. He has also won the Roux Scholarship, having…
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Aug- 2022 -25 AugustPeople
Simon Bonwick joins as head chef of The Princess of Shoreditch
Michelin-starred chef Simon Bonwick has been appointed head chef at The Princess of Shoreditch in East London, taking over the kitchen from chef Ruth Hansom. Previously chef and patron at Michelin-starred The Crown in Burchetts Green, Bonwick will be joining the Noble Inn’s family from the end of August. The…
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