Brighton
Coverage highlights foodservice and hospitality activity across this coastal city, with a focus on vibrant districts such as The Lanes, North Laine, Kemptown, and the seafront. Reporting includes restaurant and bar openings, independent brand growth, tourism and festival-driven footfall, sustainability-led concepts, and community dining culture. Insight is geared toward operators navigating high-street performance, weekend trade peaks, and local demand for casual, experiential, and plant-forward formats.
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Feb- 2020 -13 FebruaryRestaurants
Police charge UK’s first cannabis restaurant owner with supplying cannabis
The owner of the UK’s first cannabis restaurant has been charged by Sussex police with supplying the drug. According to Brighton and Hove News, the owner of the Canna Kitchen in Brighton, Sammy Ben Rabah, believed his restaurant was working within the law until it was raided in May of…
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5 FebruaryRestaurants
Purezza ‘triples the size’ of Camden site
Vegan pizza joint, Purezza, has announced plans to “triple the size” of its Camden branch, making it “one of the biggest vegan restaurants in the UK”. The extension, which marks the first part of the restaurant’s expansion plans for 2020, includes a new sheltered garden for al-fresco dining, as well…
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4 FebruaryRestaurants
The Vurger Co. eyes 2020 expansion amid £1.4m investment
Vegan burger restaurant The Vurger Co. has secured a £1.4m investment as it continues its period of “rapid growth” in 2020. The vegan burger restaurant, which opened its first site in Shoreditch in March 2018 and its second in Canary Wharf in November 2018, will open two more sites in…
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Jan- 2020 -30 JanuaryNews
Lawrence McCarthy to join The Salt Room as head chef
Lawrence McCarthy will be joining The Salt Room as head chef, the Brighton restaurant has announced. McCarthy moves from his recent role as head chef at Michelin-starred Tristan’s in Horsham. Prior to this, he worked at two Michelin-starred Marcus Wareing at the Berkeley, and spent six years at The Ledbury…
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13 JanuaryComment
The future is digital: Why more restaurants are going cash-free
Only one in 10 transactions in the UK will use cash within the next decade. Or at least that’s what ITV’s Cash Free Britain? predicted on an ITV news report just last week. And this prediction is not as bold as it may seem upon first glance. Businesses and customers…
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Dec- 2019 -11 DecemberCafes and Coffee Shops
The Breakfast Club appoints Charlie McVeigh as chairman
The Breakfast Club has appointed Draft House founder and chairman, Charlie McVeigh as chairman. The news of the appointment follows the restaurant reporting record sales and “positive” like-for-like growth for the year. It revealed the first seven months of the current financial year ended with £9.7m worth of sales, increased…
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2 DecemberRestaurants
New restaurant launches in landmark Brighton hotel
The Grand Hotel in Brighton has announced the launch of a new ‘all-day dining experience’ in its new restaurant. Cyan, which has replaced the GB1 restaurant within the iconic seafront hotel, opened its doors last week. The opening was marked with a launch event, which featured music from Brighton DJ…
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Nov- 2019 -14 NovemberFood and Drink
Brighton set to welcome first seaside food hall
A “unique, diverse and exciting” new food hall is expected to launch in Brighton next year, according to Brighton and Hove council. The new venture, which marks the first food hall for the city, will be housed in the historic Shelter Hall building on Brighton’s seafront. The building is currently…
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Oct- 2019 -18 OctoberRestaurants
New zero-waste restaurant to open in London in November
Silo, a zero-waste restaurant which will see a continually changing menu of ten to fifteen dishes,has announced it will be opening its second property in London on 5 November. Owned by award-winning chef, Douglas McMaster, will join Crate Brewery,at The White Building in Hackney Wick. “A zero-waste pioneer,” the restaurant…
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Sep- 2019 -11 SeptemberGovernment
Corbyn’s £10 minimum wage pledge ‘difficult to stomach’ for restaurants
Jeremy Corbyn has pledged a £10 an hour minimum wage for all workers over 16 if the Labour party is elected to government. In a speech delivered to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton, Corbyn said Labour would also deliver action on the gender pay gap, equal rights for…
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