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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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Nov- 2020 -12 NovemberBreweries and Distilleries
Young’s swings to pre-tax loss of £19m
Young’s, the pub chain and brewery, has reported a pre-tax loss of £19.2m in its interim results for the 26 weeks ending 28 September. The results come after the company reported pre-tax profits of £26.6m during the same period last year. While total revenue for the ten weeks since opening…
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10 NovemberCoronavirus
Roux’s Waterside Inn to remain closed until 2021
The three Michelin star Waterside Inn restaurant in Bray will remain closed until 8 January 2021, as owner chef Alain Roux deems its re-opening “financially unfeasible”. Following the government’s latest ruling, the Waterside Inn closed on 5 November 2020, however the chef announced on Instagram he would extend this break…
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9 NovemberFood and Drink
Sbarro opens first UK restaurant
Sbarro has announced its partnership with EG Group and its first restaurant opening in the UK. The pizza chain’s first restaurant is now open in Birmingham at EG Group’s Armada location. This site is the first of five new trial openings in the UK for 2020, complimenting another five planned…
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2 NovemberFeatures
Q&A with Jonathan Dockrell
What difficulties were there in opening the shop in Canary Wharf, especially during the pandemic? I suppose that the initial pain was getting people to fit the new kitchen in as you normally would. Usually you go in with relatively large teams and very quickly sort it so we’ve had…
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Oct- 2020 -30 OctoberRestaurants
Former Blumenthal staff launch new Spanish restaurant
Former staff members of Heston Blumenthals’ Hind Head restaurant have launched their own debut Spanish restaurant in Amersham. Pluma is the debut restaurant from couple Arantxa Fuentes and Charlie Baxter – both seasoned front and back of house experts. Pluma aims to serve regional Spanish dishes, with a “small, adaptable…
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30 OctoberCoronavirus
Gordon Ramsay opens new restaurant amid calls to ‘kick-start’ economy
Gordon Ramsay has taken to Twitter to announce the opening of a new Street Pizza venue in Southwark on 5 November, as he tells followers the industry must “bounce back” from Covid-19. In a video posted on the chef’s social media site, he said: “You may think it’s crazy opening a…
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22 OctoberFood and Drink
Wing Shack Co opens new kitchen in Canary Wharf
Wing Shack Co has announced the opening of its new delivery kitchen in Canary Wharf which will serve a 2.5 mile radius of the area. Wing Shack Co was founded in 2017 by Joshua Jarvis and Larry Shiro and currently operates out of three sites located in Loughton, Clerkenwell and…
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20 OctoberGovernment
Liquor licensing bill brought to Northern Ireland’s Assembly
A bill aimed at modernising Northern Ireland’s liquor licensing laws was brought before the Assembly yesterday (20 October). Originally set to be discussed before the Assembly’s collapse in January 2017, the legislation is set to bring about changes to the country’s laws regarding the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages.…
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20 OctoberNews
Margot co-founder leaves restaurant
Paulo De Tarso has stepped down from Margot, a Covent Garden restaurant that he co-founded in 2016. The restaurateur was senior maitre D’ at Bar Boulud for six years before he opened the Italian dinery with Nicolas Jaouën, the former manager at La Petite Maison in London. Since its opening,…
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19 OctoberCoronavirus
Wales announces ‘firebreak’ lockdown
The Welsh government has announced a two-week “firebreak” national lockdown, which will force business closures across the country from 23 October at 6pm until Monday 9 November. According to BBC News, first minister Mark Drakeford said the “time-limited firebreak” will be “a short, sharp, shock to turn back the clock,…
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