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 Englandโs most economically active counties.
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Mar- 2023 -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 Blumenthalโs 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 Innโs family from the end of August. The…
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8 AugustFood and Drink
Homewood appoints new F&B manager
Homewood Hotel and Spa has announced the appointment of Robert Fairbairn as its new food and beverage manager for the fully refurbished Somerset-based hotel after the reported approval of a ยฃ3m expansion plan to take place later this year.ย It is reported that Fairbairn is an โaccomplishedโ leader in food…
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4 AugustRestaurants
Chef Rafael Cagali to open second restaurant
Chef Rafael Cagali, the owner of two-Michelin-starred Da Terra, has announced the opening of his second restaurant this autumn, Elis. The chef will reportedly be taking over the space that used to house the Corner Room, set within the historic Town Hall Hotel. Elis is said to be โa more…
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Jul- 2022 -4 JulyNews
John Lewis launch chef academy to help hospitality sector
John Lewis Partnership (the Partnership) has launched its own Chef Academy to help address the current shortage of qualified chefs in the UK A joint survey released last week by UKHospitality, the British Institute of Innkeeping, and the British Beer and Pub Association, revealed that staff shortages in the hospitality…
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Jun- 2021 -17 JunePubs and Bars
Brewmish takes on two Star Pubs & Bars sites
Star Pubs and Bars has revealed that Brewmish Pub Company has taken on two of the groupโs Oxfordshire sites. Led by Chris Brewster, the former licensee of Dedingtonโs the Unicorn, Brewmish will now operate both The Duke of Marlborough and The Kingโs Head. Set to undergo a ยฃ350,000 joint refurbishment,…
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2 JuneRestaurants
Maidenhead restaurant fined ยฃ85k for fire safety breaches
Malikโs Restaurant, Cookham in Maidenhead has been fined ยฃ85,000 over a number of โserious fire safety breachesโ discovered after a blaze took place at the venue.ย On 23 October 2020, Reading Magistratesโ Court heard that a serious fire broke out in the early hours of 6 December 2016. An investigation…
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Dec- 2020 -18 DecemberCoronavirus
UKH: Tier 3 expansion will bring hospitality โfurther heartbreakโ
UKHospitality has warned the recently announced expansion of Tier 3 will โbring further despairโ to struggling businesses across the hospitality sector.ย It comes as UK government officials yesterday (17 December) announced that the majority of the South East and East of England would enter Tier 3 this weekend, as coronavirus…
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17 DecemberCoronavirus
Restrictions widen as millions enter Tier 3
UK government officials have announced that the majority of the South East and East of England will enter Tier 3 this weekend, as coronavirus cases continue to rise in many parts of the country.ย Health Secretary Matt Hancock said that the increased restrictions were necessary in order to control the…
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