After 11 months of intensive renovations, Michelin-starred restaurant and country-house hotel Northcote has unveiled four additional guestrooms and a refurbished restaurant. After 11 months of intensive renovations, Michelin-starred restaurant and country-house hotel Northcote has unveiled four additional guestrooms and a refurbished restaurant. Headed up by chef patron Nigel … [Read more...]
Boston Tea Party: 15 stores and growing
Boston Tea Party has updated on developments, with strong half year results for the Group showing like for likes trading 10% ahead of last year and up 28% when including new stores. Quality of offer Customer footfall and average spends are reported to be growing across all day parts as customers appreciate the quality of offer across the breakfast and lunch segments. The … [Read more...]
McDonald’s UK invites public to design their ultimate burger
McDonald’s UK has launched My Burger®, a crowd-sourcing campaign allowing members of the public to design beef burgers that could appear on the menu at over 1,200 UK restaurants. Online ‘burger builder’ The world’s best-known burger brand has developed an online ‘burger builder’ which can be used to design a customised burger by selecting up to six ingredients from a … [Read more...]
UK traditional and regional food at risk
Some of the UK’s most loved regional and holiday food, such as Cornish pasties, Devonshire cream teas and cockles, are at risk of extinction according to new research by Travelodge. Over half of British children have never eaten a Cornish pasty Three quarters of kids have never tried a Devonshire cream tea Nine out of ten young Britons has never tried Haggis Over a … [Read more...]
Coming to the UK? Top trends at US food show
Peach-flavoured milk, butter with maple syrup, gluten-free dishes, ginger blossom-flavoured drinks, and the chilli-based flavouring sriracha were just some of the new foods on taste for the first time at this year’s National Restaurant Association (NRA) show in Chicago. The NRA is one of the world’s biggest food and drink trade shows, and is traditionally the launch-pad for … [Read more...]