Poppy beer, Ei Group’s popular charity beer brewed to raise money for The Royal British Legion, is available exclusively to publicans across the Ei Publican Partnerships estate from this week, in advance of Remembrance Day on 11 November. The 3.6% ABV beer, brewed at The Eagle Brewery, will also be on the bar in Craft Union and Bermondsey pub companies, part of Ei Managed … [Read more...]
Chinese tourists turning to serviced apartments for visit stays
Chinese visitors to Scotland are increasingly turning to serviced apartments for their accommodation, with a leading Edinburgh operator reporting that China has become its biggest overseas market for the first time. James Foice, Chief Executive Officer of The UK Association of Serviced Apartment Providers (ASAP), said: “Our member operators right across the UK have … [Read more...]
Masterchef’s Andi Walker to take over the Riverside Inn in Essex
Following the huge success of Andi Walker’s pop-up restaurant upstairs at the Riverside Inn in Chelmsford, Essex accomplished chef Andi is now set to take over the entirety of the restaurant in an exciting refresh of the seventeenth century mill. The establishment is part of The Blue Group which is owned by Steve Andrews, under whom Andi will be taking full control of the … [Read more...]
Macdonald Hotel Group reports continued like-for-like profit growth
Macdonald Hotels, the UK’s largest 4- and 5-Star independent hotel group, achieved a profit of £4m in the last financial year and has reduced net core debt to a 14-year low. Reporting continued, strong trading performance, the group, which has 53 hotels and resorts in the UK, Ireland, Spain and Portugal, published its annual results for the year to 30 March 2017. The … [Read more...]
Rosewood London voted the number one hotel in London
Rosewood London has been named the top hotel in London by the Condé Nast Traveler 2017 Readers’ Choice Awards. Now in its 30th year, the awards rank the best hotels, resorts, cities, islands, airlines, and cruise lines in the world. More than 300,000 esteemed readers of Condé Nast Traveler submitted millions of ratings and tens of thousands of comments, sharing their recent … [Read more...]