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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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Jul- 2018 -20 JulyProduct Releases
Team behind Shoreditch’s The Clove Club to open new restaurant
The team behind Shoreditch’s Michelin star-winning The Clove Club are set to open a new restaurant in the area. Two Lights will open at the site of Italian restaurant Amici Mei on Kingsland Road in September, headed up by The Clove Club’s current head chef Chase Lovecky. Following the opening…
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19 JulyApps & Technology
Is Deliveroo moving customers from cover to couch?
Stolen food, high commission prices, overworked staff and ruining restaurants’ relationships with their customers – just a few claims made by restaurateurs who partner with door-to-door delivery apps such as Deliveroo. The massive growth of the British-born smartphone app, which allows customers to order meals from well-known high street restaurants…
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11 JulyBusiness
Crussh expands partnership with Everyone Active Leisure Operator
Crussh Fit Food & Juice Bars has announced the expansion of its partnership with Everyone Active Leisure Operator. The expansion comes off the back of a long-term partnership with Everyone Active in the Westway Sports Centre, which has seen the healthy food and juice chain open a second site at…
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5 JulyAdvice
Don’t lose your head; surviving supply shortages
It’s not often that brands are faced with supply shortages, but this summer is already a one-off. Hot weather and the build-up to the World Cup lifted demand for food and beer just as carbon dioxide gas ran into short supply, providing a perfect storm for pubs and food retailers.…
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4 JulyPeople
Pierre Koffmann and Marco Pierre White launch new restaurant
Chefs Pierre Koffmann and Marco Pierre White are working with The Abbey Hotel in Bath to launch a new restaurant in September 2018. Called Koffmann & Mr White’s, the joint venture is a brasserie style eatery that will serve a mix of English and French classics that gained the two…
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3 JulyPeople
Suffolk pub let to award-winning restaurateur
The Queens Head in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk has been let to local award-winning restaurateur, Ben Hutton, who currently operates Ben’s Restaurant, just four doors down from The Queens Head. Hutton’s food offering will focus on ‘Food to Fork’, ensuring that the meat is sourced locally from free range Suffolk…
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Jun- 2018 -29 JuneGovernment
Mayor calls for ‘united effort’ to save London’s pubs
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has called for a united effort from government, local authorities and the pub industry to help protect the future of the capital’s pubs, as he released new figures showing that there has been a long-term decline. The figures, published today, show that while pub…
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29 JuneFeatures
The rise of the delivery-only kitchen
In today’s increasingly competitive restaurant market, delivery presents potential for growth. The lure of increased brand awareness and extended the customer base, while utilising surplus kitchen capacity, logically translates into opportunity to drive sales. As delivery becomes an expected part of the offer, operators need to understand how to effectively bring…
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25 JunePubs and Bars
Multiple operator opens fifth Star Pubs & Bars site
East Midlands multiple operator, Jonny Parr has taken on a fifth Star Pubs & Bars site, The Cock in Werrington, eterborough. He is opening the new site in conjunction with new partner, Damo Wallace and Parr’s partner, Sabrina Iredale. The pub is Parr’s fifth pub with the group. His other…
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25 JunePubs and Bars
Work begins on new Scotts bar and restaurant in Port Edgar Marina
Development has started on a new Scotts bar and restaurant at Port Edgar Marina in South Queensferry after Scottish hospitality group, Buzzworks Holdings, was handed the keys to its new waterside venue earlier this month. Situated near the Three Bridges and Firth of Forth, Scotts is expected to open its…
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