Peterborough
Coverage highlights restaurant and bar openings, pub refurbishments and café developments, with updates on closures, staffing changes and menu trends. Editorial also reports on local investment, regeneration projects and supplier partnerships, giving UK hospitality professionals insight into the latest activity shaping the city’s food and drink market.
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Dec- 2025 -10 DecemberFood and Drink
German Doner Kebab opens restaurant at Cobham Services
German Doner Kebab has opened a restaurant at Cobham Services, adding the fast-growing chain to one of the UK’s busiest motorway stops on the M25. The company said the launch offers travellers an alternative to existing food options, with a focus on fresh ingredients and a wider menu. It follows…
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Nov- 2025 -26 NovemberFood and Drink
German Doner Kebab to open at Skelton Lake Services in December
German Doner Kebab is to open a restaurant at Skelton Lake Services in December, extending the chain’s motorway footprint and creating about 30 jobs at one of Yorkshire’s busiest roadside stops. The site will be the company’s fifth within the Extra Motorway Service Area network, joining restaurants in Baldock, Cambridge…
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19 NovemberRestaurants
Middletons Steakhouse saved after administration sale
Middletons Steakhouse has been acquired out of administration by a new group controlled by its existing shareholders. Following their appointment, joint administrators Tim Bateson and James Clark from Interpath concluded a sale of the business and assets to secure the future of the company The transaction sees all of the…
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Oct- 2025 -22 OctoberRestaurants
Mexi Bean Express signs first UK franchise location
Mexican food brand Mexi Bean Express has started its UK expansion with the signing of its first franchise location. Peterborough-based entrepreneurs Manoj Kumar Maruthan and Mohamed Fayas Athambawa will be opening the new site in Peterborough’s city centre. Maruthan has spent nearly two decades working in cybersecurity and cloud architecture.…
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17 OctoberFood and Drink
German Doner Kebab to open new restaurants in London and Surrey
German Doner Kebab will open two new restaurants this autumn, expanding its UK footprint with launches in Elephant and Castle, south London, and at Cobham Services on the M25, in Surrey. The new locations mark the latest stage in the brand’s national growth strategy and its move to diversify across…
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Sep- 2025 -8 SeptemberCafes and Coffee Shops
Chocoberry to open Milton Keynes café as part of UK expansion
Chocoberry will open a new dessert café in Milton Keynes as part of its latest wave of UK expansion. The chain, which currently operates 18 cafés across the country, said the site will be among three new openings scheduled in the next three months, with locations also planned in Walsall…
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Aug- 2025 -1 AugustCafes and Coffee Shops
Chocoberry revenues up 53% in H1 as it targets 50 stores by 2026
Leicester-based dessert café chain, Chocoberry, has reported a 53% increase in revenues in the first half of 2025 as the business accelerates plans to open 50 UK sites by the end of 2026. Chocoberry has attributed its performance to growing demand for its premium dessert offering. Founded in 2018, the…
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Jul- 2025 -21 JulyBusiness
HMRC names and shames 98 restaurants in tax crackdown
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has identified 98 restaurants and takeaways for underpaying taxes, as part of an enforcement campaign that recouped £10.4m in unpaid tax and imposed £9.2m in penalties. The businesses, which were rounded up in a single day, include A La Turka in Grimsby, which owes £492k;…
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Jun- 2025 -9 JuneRestaurants
Wingstop opens Peterborough site as UK expansion continues
Wingstop UK has opened a new restaurant in Peterborough as part of its nationwide expansion plans, offering free wings to the first 100 customers.The new site, on the corner of Long Causeway and Cathedral Square, spans 1,878 sq ft and seats 72 diners. It serves the full Wingstop UK menu…
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Nov- 2024 -26 NovemberRestaurants
Loungers opens fourth Brightside in Rutland
Loungers officially opened its fourth Brightside last Friday (22 November) at the Ram Jam Services in Rutland. Located alongside the main route from Peterborough to Grantham, Brightside is part of a purpose-built retail development of four units adjacent to an established petrol station and a new bakery. This opening follows…
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