Plans to create a world class exhibition centre and hotel in Liverpool – propelling the city into the premier league for hosting large scale trade and consumer exhibitions – have been given the green light. Ambitious plans for the new £40m Exhibition Centre Liverpool and £27m integrated hotel at Kings Dock were approved by the city’s planning committee on 23 July, with work … [Read more...]
Driving business into restaurants with the London Restaurant Festival
Now in its fifth year, The London Restaurant Festival will run between 3 and 21 October and is the only festival that actually takes place in London’s restaurants, right across the city. ‘Restaurant-hopping’ tours and set-price Festival Menus Restaurants involved will see a new customer base come through their doors via organised ‘restaurant-hopping’ tours and set-price … [Read more...]
Ceviche to open Virgin Atlantic’s first Pop-Up Restaurant
This August, Martin Morales, Founder of Ceviche, has teamed up with Virgin Atlantic to offer the airline’s first ever pop-up restaurant, at Heathrow Airport. From pop-up to pop-up! Ceviche, the Peruvian restaurant, started life as a pop-up in London last year before finding a permanent home in Soho last March, fast becoming one of the most critically acclaimed restaurants … [Read more...]
Catering in shopping centres: diversity brings opportunities
For shopping centres worldwide, catering has become a key part of the retail and leisure experience on offer to visitors. As such, the catering developments and changes made by the shopping centre operators send important signals to the watching industry: what’s going on, and why? In the UK, such changes have been highly visible in West London and at the Olympics, whilst … [Read more...]
James Martin goes racing at Ascot this September
We’ve enjoyed watching him from the comfort of our homes, cooking a variety of culinary delights. Now, much loved TV celebrity chef James Martin will be at Ascot on Saturday 7 September for the Festival of Food and Wine Raceday where he will not only create a menu for one of the racecourse’s premier restaurants, but also take part in an exclusive cooking … [Read more...]