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Stay ahead with curated reporting on new restaurant, pub, bar, café, and catering openings across the UK. This highlights the latest venue launches, from independents to multi-site operators, and offers behind-the-scenes insights into concept development, site selection, kitchen design, menu strategy, and operational planning. Whether you’re tracking competitors, scouting for inspiration, or evaluating expansion trends, this coverage helps hospitality professionals understand where investment is going and how new openings are shaping the foodservice landscape. Essential reading for chefs, operators, landlords, and F&B executives watching the market evolve.
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Dec- 2021 -13 DecemberFood and Drink
Mercato Metropolitano MD to step down
Mercato Metropolitano has announced Amedeo Claris is to step down as managing director. Mercato operates a number of community street food markets with three sites in London with plans to open a European flagship in Berlin next year. According to the group, Claris is leaving to take up a new…
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10 DecemberFeatures
Sticks’n’Sushi: An insight into a hybrid restaurant’s success
What is the history of the business? We are a Japanese restaurant with heritage from Copenhagen as two of our founders are half Japanese and half Danish. There are some elements of Nordic inspiration across our menu, but in essence, we have a Japanese kitchen, including both a hot kitchen…
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10 DecemberRestaurants
63rd+1st appoints new operations director
Cocktail bar and restaurant, 63rd+1st, has announced that Graeme Nesbitt has been appointed as its newest operations director. Arriving just two weeks after the opening of the third venue in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, Nesbitt brings more than 30 years’ experience to this new role. Formerly an executive chef, he has…
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10 DecemberFood and Drink
McDonalds opens first UK net zero restaurant
McDonald’s has announced the opening of the UK’s first net zero carbon restaurant. The Market Drayton McDonald’s, which will act as a blueprint for future restaurants around the country, has been designed to be net zero emissions standard in both construction and every day operation. Featuring the “latest innovations” in…
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9 DecemberRestaurants
Shutters Canary Wharf opens its doors
Shutters Canary Wharf, a new restaurant inspired by Southern California, has opened its doors. Opening in the new Conran designed, hotel-styled ground floor of One Canada Square, Shutters is an ever-evolving restaurant and bar, open seven days a week, for brunch from 8am to 11am and all-day dining from noon…
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9 DecemberFood and Drink
Woking opens two new F&B brands
Woking Shopping has announced the opening of The Tea Terrace Restaurant and Tea Room, as well as the opening of its sister brand’s debut restaurant The Ol’ West Grill and Diner. The two restaurant brands are owned by husband-and-wife duo Rowena and Ehab Shouly, bolstering Woking Shopping’s “rapidly” growing and…
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8 DecemberNews
Whitbread’s Bar + Block to open in Edinburgh this month
Whitbread’s contemporary steak brand, Bar + Block, is set to open the doors to its second site in Scotland, launching on Princes Street in Edinburgh on 13 December, taking its portfolio to 18 sites. Bar + Block Edinburgh takes over the former New Look site on Princes Street, which has…
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6 DecemberFood and Drink
One in five restaurants forced to shut amid supply issues
Almost one in five partner restaurants have been forced to close their doors during business hours over the past three months because of supply chain issues, according to a new survey by Deliveroo. Of the restaurants polled, 54% have had to remove items from their menus due to lack of…
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3 DecemberRestaurants
Sticks’n’Sushi posts record profits in FY21
The Danish sushi chain Sticks’n’Sushi has reported record pre-tax profits of 51.5m DKK (£5.89m) for the financial year 2020/2021, up 4% compared to 484m DKK (£55.4m) in 2019/2020. The chain also saw revenues of 503.2m DKK (£57.6m), marking the first time Sticks’n’Sushi has hit the 500m DKK (£57.2m) mark in…
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Nov- 2021 -30 NovemberFeatures
Sessions Market: Redefining the dining experience
As the hospitality industry begins to get back on its feet following a tumultuous 18 months, exciting new food concepts are once again looking to tap into their potential and find their feet in the market. It is not easy to scale your business alone, however. Enter Sessions Market. Both…
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