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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Jun- 2022 -28 JuneRestaurants
Slim Chickens to open four new UK sites simultaneously
Boparan Restaurant Group (BRG) will open four new Slim Chickens restaurants simultaneously on 4 July 2022 in Leicester, Liverpool, Milton Keynes and London’s Bishopsgate, continuing Slim Chickens’ roll out across the UK. The new restaurants will each occupy 2500+ square feet locations, bringing the US fast casual brand’s UK portfolio…
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28 JuneRestaurants
Honest Burger partners with UberEats for delivery
Honest Burgers has announced today that it has become an Uber Eats exclusive partner, which will reportedly see 43 stores across the country implement takeaway delivery via the UberEats app. The partnership also means that UberEats customers can now order Honest Burgers’ “premium quality burgers” and the “signature” rosemary salted…
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23 JuneApps & Technology
Taster launches its first delivery offering in Bristol
Taster, the delivery-first restaurant group, has announced its arrival in Bristol after securing its first franchise partner in the city. Taster is the UK’s first ‘delivery-first’ restaurant group and uses a modern franchise model to partner with restaurateurs and kitchen owners. From 23 June, Bristolians will be able to order…
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13 JuneVenues & Properties
Popeyes UK to open six more sites
Popeye’s UK, which first launched in November 2021 with “runaway success”, has announced plans to speed up its national rollout with six new sites confirmed across the country in Nottingham, Gateshead, Oxford, Reading, Brighton, and Ealing. Popeyes was founded in New Orleans in 1972, and currently has sites in Stratford,…
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May- 2022 -9 MayRestaurants
Fatto Pizza & Beer to open in Kings Cross in June
Brighton based Fatto a Mano has announced it will launch Fatto Pizza and Beer in Kings Cross this June. After establishing themselves in Brighton and Hove, as well as pop ups at BoxPark Croydon and BoxPark Shoreditch, Fatto a Mano will now take on a permanent site in the capital.…
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Apr- 2022 -6 AprilRestaurants
The Vurger Co. to open in Manchester this month
The Vurger Co. is set for further expansion this month with a fourth restaurant opening in the heart of Manchester’s Northern Quarter on 23 April. The Vurger Co. site, which will be located in the Transmission House development, will be its “largest and most ambitious project to date”, with over…
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Mar- 2022 -28 MarchBusiness
Seasoned wins contract to become Sea Life Brighton provider
Seasoned, the catering and events firm, has beaten the competition to become an official partner for Sea Life Brighton, expanding on its presence in the seaside resort. The organisation celebrated the contract with a soft launch, inviting local industry colleagues and dignitaries including Brighton and Hove mayor Alan Robins to…
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24 MarchNews
The Grand Brighton promotes new executive chef
The Grand Brighton hotel’s head chef, Neil Gooding, has stepped up to take the position as executive chef after more than 15 years at the city’s flagship hotel. Gooding has worked at the hotel since 2006 when he first joined as a sous chef before being promoted to senior sous…
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Jan- 2022 -17 JanuaryPubs and Bars
Brighton Pier Group H1 sales top £23m amid strong NY trading
Brighton Pier Group has reported total sales of £22.7m for the 26-week period ending 26 December 2021, up 177% on the same period in 2020. Whilst trading was impacted in December due to the restrictions announced by the government, over New Year the bars recovered, trading 9% higher than in…
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11 JanuaryRestaurants
Gastrono-me to open second site in Cambridge
Gastrono-me Restaurants has revealed plans to open a second site in Cambridge in March 2022 as it looks to expand the group across the UK. The group, which currently operates only one site in Bury St Edmunds, first announced its expansion plans for the all-day concept last year. Founders Gemma…
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