Casual Dining enjoys its best show yet with nearly 5,000 attendees London was the capital of the casual dining world last week – as Casual Dining returned to the Business Design Centre in Islington on 22-23 February to showcase the best new products, solutions, insights, and innovations of the year. The multi-award winning event enjoyed its fourth year of significant … [Read more...]
Operators Get Fizzical, Champagne, Prosecco & English Sparklers
Sparkling wines are going from strength to strength and as a Hospitality or Catering operator, if you want to maximise the value contribution to your wine takings, then keeping tabs on the sector is a must. The sparkling wines sector growth opportunity seems to know no bounds. A study released yesterday by long time wine industry exhibition, Vinexpo, and International Wine … [Read more...]
An invitation from Cyrus Todiwala to discuss and debate our industry’s food supply chain
As a restaurateur, from the moment my customers walk through the door, their overall experience should be as outstanding as Pervin, my team and I can make it. And as a chef, good food is central to everything I do. Café Spice Namaste has been in business for 21 years, which hopefully means we are doing something right, including how we source our food. Clearly I am not … [Read more...]
Speciality Breads-xit as Kent Baker Begins to Export
Artisan baker Speciality Breads has continued its dramatic rise in the baking world after securing its first export deal and rolling out its breads abroad. Clive Levene, one of Speciality Breads’ Regional Account Managers stepped up to the challenge of bringing on new business from overseas and has done so with remarkable speed. With export one of new MD Simon Cannell’s … [Read more...]
Chef Essentials…a probe thermometer, knife skills and really high-quality olive oil
We love to scour the consumer press to see what is being reported concerning the hospitality and catering industry and we found an interesting snippet today in the INDEPENDENT - The one thing that can make you a better cook, according to 7 professional chefs. The chefs asked included Tom Cenci, executive chef at the Duck and Waffle who said for him it was all about … [Read more...]