Heartwood Collection secures £100m cash injection as it steams ahead with ‘pubs with room’ expansion PUB REVAMP Hospitality chain Heartwood Collection, formally known as Brasserie Bar Co, has secured £100m of additional funding as it steams ahead with its growth plans. In June, the pub and restaurant chain revealed a major revamp which saw the hospitality group expand into the pubs with rooms market. Last year, Brasserie Bar Co was snapped up [...]
Brasserie Blanc eyes major pub expansion plan for 60 sites while creating 1,500 jobs Brasserie Blanc Brasserie Blanc restaurant chain has revealed a major revamp which will see the hospitality group expand into the pubs with rooms market. Last year, Brasserie Bar Co was snapped up by private equity group Alchemy Partners for an undisclosed sum, and will now be renamed as Heartwood Collection, as part of its new makeover. The [...]
Burns Night in London: 13 places to enjoy the perfect Burns supper Burns Night celebrations If you fancy ending Dry January with a big old dram of Scotland's finest, here are 13 restaurants celebrating Burns Night with a Burns Supper
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1 Lombard Street and Coq d’Argent turn 25: How two restaurants changed the City September 13, 2023 A quarter of a century ago, the City was a very different place. Back then men in suits – and they were still mostly men – would commute in early, spend a few hours at their desk before taking a long, usually boozy lunch. After work, they would either decant to the West End or [...]
‘Men stop behaving like children when women are around’ – 16 women in hospitality on International Women’s Day March 7, 2024 This IWD we decided to hand over our pages to some of the amazing women who are blazing a trail in the world of food, drink and hospitality
Yet more places to eat and drink: 70 bars and restaurants open now May 13, 2021 It’s just days until we can once more sit in a restaurant and dine like civilized human beings, albeit socially distanced ones. But where to book? To help you make this most difficult of decisions, we’ve collected a bumper list of 70 places to meet up with friends and support the hospitality industry. With spots [...]
We asked top chefs for their dream post-Covid meals – find out who ordered the brains! March 2, 2021 As we dare to dream about an end to the culinary purgatory that is Covid, we asked some of our favourite chefs to tell us where they most want to eat when the restaurant world reopens. The answers took us on an incredible gastronomical tour across the world, from the paladars of Cuba to the [...]