A strong corporate market in Birmingham together with a lack of supply has resulted in a quarter one performance of 83.1% for the city - an increase of +26.8% - and by far the best performance for the sector in the UK. Liverpool has also delivered a very strong performance achieving 77.9%, a +11.7% increase in occupancy. Thomas Emanuel, STR Global, who compile the monthly … [Read more...]
Restaurant manager with Michelin star record joins Llangoed Hall
Bruno Asselin, who is originally from Burgundy in France, has helped restaurants achieve 21 Michelin stars during his career and now hopes to pass on his experience to the team at Llangoed Hall at Llyswen, near Brecon. Arriving in the UK in 1991, he worked with Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons for three years; Pied a Terre Restaurant in London for a total of nine … [Read more...]
Mercure unveils the winner of The Six Friends Theory
Mercure launched “The Six Friends Theory”, a worldwide digital operation, to check the well-known six-degrees-of-separation theory, which claims that we are all only six people away from everyone else on the planet. After an international call for applications, which was hugely successful across the social networks, a 21 year-old Italian, Ludovica Loda, became the lucky … [Read more...]
Enterprise Inns moves strategy to managed pubs + commercial leases
Enterprise Inns plc, the leading operator of leased and tenanted pubs in the UK, has announced its interim results for the six months ended 31 March 2015, as well as a strategic review designed to have a managed pub business operating in the region of 750-850 pubs by September 2020, and a commercial property business with around 900-1,000 property assets. Greater than … [Read more...]
Gefiltefest Jewish Food Festival, London, 28 June 2015
The sixth annual Gefiltefest festival, celebrating Jewish Heritage through food has been dubbed the "Intellectual's Food Festival" for good reason. A day replete with celebrity-led demonstrations, debates, workshops, lectures and masterclasses will fill the JW3 Arts and Cultural Centre on Sunday 28 June 2015. Exploring Jewish culture through the medium of food, … [Read more...]