Cycas Hospitality has signed a management contract with Hyatt to operate the first Hyatt Place in central London. The move strengthens the hotel management company’s strategy to triple its European portfolio over the next few years to cover mainstream as well as extended-stay hospitality sectors. Due to open in 2020, the 280-room Hyatt Place London City/East at Black Lion … [Read more...]
Ten coffee facts celebrating International Coffee Day
Today is International Coffee Day and Mintel has compiled ten coffee facts highlighting the UK as a nation of coffee lovers. As coffee is gaining even more importance with almost all hospitality and catering venues from fine dining restaurants to cost sector catering, and everything in between, we thought some coffee facts and figures reflecting the UK habits of UK consumers … [Read more...]
Award-winning team behind Sager + Wilde to launch brand new concept fare Bar + Canteen
This November, award-winning duo Michael Sager and Marcis Dzelzainis, of Sager + Wilde, will launch an exciting all-day-dining bar and canteen. Fare Bar + Canteen, located in the historic Morelands building on Old Street, is a multifunctional space split across two floors offering a grab-and-go coffee area, intimate cocktail and wine bar, and restaurant serving a selection of … [Read more...]
Cuban Inspired Pop-Up Cocktail Bar – Last Nights of Havana – To Launch at Tobacco Dock This October
Meanwhile Events, the team behind the incredibly successful and popular Skylight, will be bringing the distinctive tastes, sounds and spirit of pre-revolution Cuba to Tobacco Dock with the launch of Last Nights Of Havana - a celebration of rum, jazz, dance and decadence. Inspired by the famously opulent playground that was 1940s and 50s pre-revolution Havana, the re-imagined … [Read more...]
Big Easy Kings Road turns up the heat
27 years in the making, London’s original Big Easy on Chelsea’s Kings Road reopened on Tuesday 18th September with a new look, larger bar, 50% off food for 10 days and 100 complimentary Margaritas. Big Easy was introduced to the restaurant scene in 1991 by its founder Paul Corrett. Since its inception, the Big Easy mission statement has been high-quality barbecued meats, … [Read more...]