Scotland’s largest independent restaurant chain, The DRG, has unveiled plans for an £8m aparthotel in Glasgow city centre as it posted record annual results. Formerly known as Di Maggio’s Restaurant Group, The DRG, which owns 18 restaurants across Scotland including Amarone and Café Andaluz, saw turnover increase by 12.4% to £33.7 million for the financial year to April 30th … [Read more...]
The Clink Charity Ball 2017 raises £30,000
Innovative prisoner rehabilitation initiative The Clink Charity held its annual fundraising extravaganza – The Clink Charity Ball 2017 – on Friday 20 December, at the Lancaster London on Hyde Park. The evening raised a staggering £30,000 through ticket sales, a table raffle and a star raffle, with a brand new Hyundai i10s up for grabs courtesy of Clink Ball gold sponsors … [Read more...]
New GM checks in at South West’s leading Four-Star Hotel
A new general manager has been appointed at the South West’s leading four-star hotel. Mehmet Kandemir has now joined DoubleTree by Hilton, Cadbury House in Congresbury, North Somerset where he will take control of the day-to-day running of the hotel, house and Marco Pierre White Steakhouse Bar & Grill. Having worked at the venue as operations manager over 13 years … [Read more...]
Topping out at University of Manchester’s £1 billion campus redevelopment
Members of The University of Manchester and Alliance Manchester Business School, M&L Hospitality, Bruntwood, Intercontinental Hotels Group and Cycas Hospitality gathered last week to celebrate the ‘Topping out’ of a new mixed-use development at the Manchester Oxford Road Campus. The landmark 19-storey building, which will feature a dual branded 328-room hotel, with … [Read more...]
Hollywood Bowl opens its 55th Centre in the heart of Southampton City
Hollywood Bowl has opened a brand new, £2.5 million bowling centre in Southampton, as part of the city’s WestQuay Watermark dining and leisure development. The 17,000 sq ft boutique Hollywood Bowl is bringing a high quality leisure entertainment venue to Southampton for families and adults alike and has created 35 permanent and part-time jobs for the local … [Read more...]