Working Lunch: Gunpowder Tower Bridge brings its flavour-packed Indian food south of the river September 26, 2018 GUNPOWDER TOWER BRIDGE, SE1 WHAT IS IT? It’s the second outpost of Gunpowder, a critically-acclaimed Indian restaurant that opened in a tiny space in Spitalfields in 2015. The new one joins the Bridge Theatre and a new branch of The Ivy brasserie at One Tower Bridge, the glassy part of the South Bank next to [...]
Stonegate confirms Be At One buyout and adds more City bars to portfolio | City A.M. July 23, 2018 Stonegate Pub Company has today confirmed its acquisition of bar chain Be At One, as well as a swoop on 15 additional sites in the City and West End. It emerged yesterday that the Slug and Lettuce owner was to acquire the cocktail chain for an estimated £50m as it beefs up its estate. The [...]
Network Rail wants to ban plastic cutlery and cups from major stations by 2020 June 6, 2018 Network Rail is to ban retailers at some of its stations from supplying plastic cutlery and cups in a push to become more environmentally friendly. By the end of 2020, retailers at some of the biggest and busiest rail stations will also have to implement a coffee cup recycling scheme and expand the roll out [...]
Vaping and e-cigs are safer than smoking cigarettes, so let your colleagues puff away at their desk November 1, 2018 I smoke. Very happily. Cigarettes, cigars, and pipes. As far as I’m concerned, tobacco is one of the true age-verified joys of life. I love the taste of the leaf, the sensation of the nicotine, and the other physical and psychological effects. I have also worked on marketing campaigns for two of the world’s biggest [...]
New homes: Our pick of what’s going on sale in London this week November 12, 2018 New developments on the market this week Aviator Place, Acton From £150,000 for a 40 per cent share of a one bedroom apartment Get onto the property ladder a share at a time by purchasing one of these Shared Ownership homes going on sale in west London tomorrow. Acton is an up-and-coming part of Zone [...]
Group of six London pubs sold to the Laine Pub Company for around £4m April 11, 2017 Six London pubs, including The Camden Eye and The Black Lion, Hammersmith, have been acquired by the Laine Pub Company from the New Pub Company. City A.M. understands that the portfolio was sold for close to £4m. Read more: Heineken is investing £20m into its UK pubs Gavin George, chief executive of Laine Pub Company [...]
The Premier League’s diving problem: The FA’s rules have failed to clamp down on cheating – something needs to change January 28, 2019 Every weekend there are debates up and down the country about whether a player has dived, how soft a penalty was or whether that theatrical reaction deceived the referee into sending an opponent off – and yet nothing changes. The same scenarios crop up week-in, week-out, and pundits take to the TV and radio to [...]
Baking: Greggs blames sweltering summer for dip in sales growth October 9, 2018 Sales at on-the-go food retailer Greggs crumbled under the sweltering heat of 2018's long hot summer, but a trading update today showed top brass remain unfazed, with its share price up five per cent. The figures In the three months to 29 September 2018, total sales at Greggs rose 7.3 per cent, compared with 8.6 per cent in [...]
Focus On Bow: A population boom and the commercial success of nearby Stratford is boosting plans for new homes in E3 December 17, 2018 It may seem like a distant memory now, but the London 2012 Olympic Games promised a lot in the way of legacy. It anointed six east London areas – Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Greenwich, Barking & Dagenham and Hackney – ‘Growth Boroughs’ and predicted that the money pouring into Stratford would emanate out to [...]
Lucy Watson and Clive Watson discuss Tell Your Friends, London’s upcoming vegan foodie hotspot March 19, 2018 Growing up as the daughter of a man who has launched and sold several successful pub chains, Lucy Watson never thought she would launch her own hospitality business. “I always thought of it as quite a manly industry,” she says. Apart from sometimes working as a waitress in his pubs, her aspirations were fixed elsewhere. [...]