A new café or table-service restaurant will open in the UK for every pub and bar that closes over the next three years, finds independent market analyst Datamonitor. By the end of 2013, an estimated 2,000 pubs and bars are predicted to close, whilst nearly 300 new cafes and 1,900 new full service restaurants are expected to open for business suggesting a fundamental … [Read more...]
Jamie Oliver’s fifteen, an update from Sarah Thornhill apprentice chef
Way back in 2002, Jamie Oliver achieved two of his many ambitions, to open a first class restaurant and to also give disadvantaged youngsters the opporunity to gain professional training that would set them up for a productive career. Fifteen is still achieving both, improving and expanding all the time. Bringing the project up to date, nineteen year old Sarah Thornhill … [Read more...]
Property of the week, a new restaurant opportunity in Sutton Coldfield
The Birmingham Office of leading business agent, Christie + Co, is marketing a brand new restaurant opportunity in Sutton Coldfield, a very affluent suburb of Birmingham. The restaurant is located below a high-class Indian restaurant operation and close to the Empire Cinema and a Tesco Express store. The property has been fitted out to a very high specification as part … [Read more...]
Morris Inn Group’s boutique hotel sold to Glasgow-based restaurateur
Acting on behalf of Robert Barclay and Bryan Jackson of PKF (UK) LLP, Joint Receivers of the Morris Inns Group, the Lanarkshire-based, family run business, Christie + Co has sold the freehold of the boutique Redstones Hotel in Glasgow, to restaurateur Mr Abdul Sattar for an undisclosed sum, off an guide price of £1.5 million. The 12-en suite bedroom Redstones Hotel, … [Read more...]
Giorgio Locatelli urges food lovers to fight hunger by eating out
Watch the video, which is part of the Restaurants Against Hunger Campaign … [Read more...]