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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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Jan- 2019 -3 JanuaryCafes and Coffee Shops
Crussh to turn Soho store 100% plant-based for Veganuary
Crussh Fit Food & Juice Bars is set to turn its Soho store on Broadwick Street into a 100% plant-based outlet for the entire month of January as part of Veganuary. Opening Thursday 3 January, the Soho pop-up is set to boast over 70 vegan recipes, with highlights including the…
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Dec- 2018 -21 DecemberRestaurants
New Indo-Chinese ‘concept’ restaurant to open in Soho
The restaurant group behind Bombay Chow, Station 31, and Imperial Lounge, has announced it is to open a fourth Indo-Chinese “concept” restaurant in Soho. Opening at the former site of Tabun Kitchen at 77 Berwick Street, the restaurant is expected to start serving from March 2019, following “a comprehensive refurbishment”.…
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20 DecemberCafes and Coffee Shops
Glamping business opens first cafe
A Northamptonshire glamping company has completed its next phase of expansion as it opens the doors to a new onsite café. After launching the business, named Country Bumpkin in Great Oxendon in June 2017, childhood friends and owners Jenny Lyon and Lara Collis opened the new cafe last month to…
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18 DecemberRestaurants
Crussh to open second SSP Group site
Healthy fast food chain, Crussh has announced it will open a second rail site with the SSP Group, an operator of food and beverage brands in travel locations worldwide, in London Bridge in spring 2019. Following on from the success of its first site in partnership with SSP, located in…
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17 DecemberBusiness
Restaurant on the market months after opening
Padrino Pizza in Dundee is up for sale despite only opening in September, the restaurant is on the market at a price of £35,000. The restaurants owners said they were selling up in order to pursue “other business opportunities”. The business is being marketed by Cornerstone Business Agents, which says…
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14 DecemberBusiness
Japanese coffee chain to open first UK outlet
Japanese coffee chain, Omotesando Koffee has announced it is to open its first UK outlet in in London’s Fitzrovia this Friday (14 October). The chain, which has been in operation across Asia since 2011, will open in Rathbone Square, fulfilling the company’s wish to serve coffee to every country in…
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13 DecemberBusiness
Franco Manca owner’s profit boost cues hunt for new restaurants
Italian restaurant chain, Franco Manca has announced it is to increase its expansion plans after its owner, Fulham Shore posted a 35% pre-tax profit rise for the six months up to 23 September 2018. Franco Manca also experienced a 20% increase in year-on-year revenue up to £33m, whilst earnings before…
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13 DecemberBusiness
23.5 Degrees opens 60th Starbucks store after 50th anniversary
Starbucks’ first UK franchised business partner, 23.5 Degrees, has announced it will open its 60th store in six years, on 14 December in Sheffield. The business has plans to open six further Starbucks stores in the next three months, and has 23 new stores planned for 2019. 23.5 Degrees says…
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13 DecemberBeverages
Time Out to open food market in London’s Waterloo
Time Out Group, the global media and entertainment business, has signed a conditional lease agreement for a new Time Out Market in London, with planning already granted. Time Out Market London will be located in Waterloo at a retail and leisure development in the station where almost 100 million passengers…
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12 DecemberBusiness
Gino D’Acampo’s My Coffee & Deli Bar expands eight weeks after opening
Gino D’Acampo’s first Italian fast-casual dining offer, My Coffee & Deli Bar, has expanded just eight weeks after its launch. The new eatery, located on the ground floor of My Pizza & Prosecco Bar in fashion retailer Next, Manchester, has acquired further floor space within the fashion store. The expansion…
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