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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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Apr- 2022 -8 AprilNews
Wagtail to open its new dining experience in London
London is set to welcome new 360-degree rooftop bar and restaurant dining experience, Wagtail. It revealed the venue is a redevelopment of the former House of Fraser Monument and it will open its doors on Thursday 12 May on King William Street in Monument. Led by head chef, Philip Kearsey…
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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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6 AprilRestaurants
Food delivery startup Growth Kitchen partners with Tortilla
Growth Kitchen, the food-delivery startup, has announced that it has entered into a partnership with Mexican restaurant brand, Tortilla. The partnership will support the opening of multiple delivery kitchens in the coming years, and follows the success of Tortilla’s Growth Kitchen hub in Balham. Growth Kitchen said it aims to…
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6 AprilRestaurants
Chik’n to rebrand amid Soho House partnership
Chik’n has announced that it is set to relaunch and rebrand this spring as Chicken Shop, alongside the opening of a new site in Notting Hill and a new partnership with Soho House. The brand said it has partnered with Soho House to help “spread their wings to bring their…
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5 AprilRestaurants
Slim Chickens to open new London site
Boparan Restaurant Group (BRG) has announced the official opening of a new Slim Chickens site which is set to open on 13 April in Seven Dials’ Cambridge Circus, London. Joining two other central London sites in Soho and Marylebone, the new launch will be the 18th Slim Chickens site in…
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5 AprilFood and Drink
Happy Face to open third London site this April
Neapolitan pizza brand, Happy Face Pizza, continues its expansion in the capital with its third restaurant set to open in northwest London this month. The new site will be one of the first to open in the new Brent Cross Town development, bringing its “refined, authentic” Italian menu and signature…
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4 AprilCatering Companies
The need to diversify: Coppa Club’s cultivation in the hotel sector
Hospitality franchise Coppa Club is expanding its portfolio with a new venue in Surrey that celebrates style in its most authentic form; The Georgian. Opening on Tuesday 26 April 2022, the property reflects the building’s history and architectural element, whilst setting news trends in the streets of Haslemere, near the…
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4 AprilRestaurants
Wagamama reopens all airport restaurants
Wagamama has announced that it is to reopen all of its airport restaurant locations in order to “meet the demand for international holidays”. The airport restaurants are the last to reopen after the pandemic closed all restaurants following the national lockdown two years ago. It said this final phase of…
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4 AprilRestaurants
Popeyes opens first standalone UK site
Popeyes UK, the master franchise for the United Kingdom, is set to open its first standalone, sit-down restaurant in the UK in Chelmsford, shortly following its Westfield Stratford opening. Menu items already available at the Stratford restaurant will be offered at the standalone site, including Popeyes’ 12-hour marinated chicken and…
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Mar- 2022 -31 MarchFood and Drink
The Little Scarlet to open in Soho this summer
House-party inspired late night bar and restaurant concept, The Little Door and Co, will open its fourth site, The Little Scarlet Door, in Soho’s Greek Street on 6 June. Occupying a 2,200 sq ft space across two floors in the newly redeveloped, multi-use Ilona Rose House at 12-13 Greek Street,…
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