Bill’s is to open its latest outlet in Epsom after Davis Coffer Lyons - the leisure specialists - acquired a 3,000 sq ft ground floor unit near the intersection of South Street and High Street in the heart of the Surrey town. Bill’s has taken a new 25 year lease at a rent of £40,000 and a £120,000 premium. 25 restaurants to open in 2014 The Epsom restaurant will be the … [Read more...]
New Ambrette dishes to be trialled at Tapas Festival
The critically acclaimed Ambrette restaurants in Margate and Rye are using the growing trend toward ‘sharing’ and ‘small plate’ dining to trial a number of new dishes with a Tapas Festival on Sunday 11th May. With a frequently changing menu, Ambrette customers are often presented with complex dishes with intense flavours and subtle spicing that they will not have encountered … [Read more...]
lunch! scoops third Best Trade Show award
Diversified Communications’ lunch! show – the leading trade event for the UK’s £14.9bn lunchtime market – has added another industry title to its roster after winning Best Trade Show at the annual Exhibition News Awards ceremony last month. lunch! triumphed in the hotly-contested Best Trade Show category ahead of leading exhibitions including the Speciality & Fine Food … [Read more...]
Lyle’s in The Tea Building
Award-winning hospitality designers, B3 Designers, have collaborated with former Young Turks chef, James Lowe on his first restaurant, Lyle’s. Located in the Tea Building in Shoreditch, East London, B3 Designers’ brief was to create a restaurant interior that reflected the era of the Tea Building, with a strong reference to British manufacturing and design from the … [Read more...]
Disappointing Easter for pubs and restaurants
Britain's leading pub and restaurant groups, which had just recorded 12 consecutive months of sales growth, saw sales dip over the Easter weekend, with collective like-for-like sales down 3.8% on the corresponding four-day holiday last year, according to latest figures from the Coffer Peach Business Tracker. "The results will be a little disappointing, but need to be put in … [Read more...]