Leading London brewer Fuller, Smith and Turner has created a special Royal Wedding Celebration Ale so customers can toast the Royal couple ahead of their big day on April 29. Royal Wedding Celebration Ale is rich and smooth with a malty base, and has a fruity and satisfying finish thanks to the addition of the aptly named Sovereign hops. Fuller’s Brands Marketing Manager … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2011
Japanese people moved to tears over Lake District kindness
£4,350 raised at fundraising lunch - A Japanese journalist spoke to spellbound diners attending the Japan disaster, fundraising lunch at Holbeck Ghyll Country House Hotel, Windermere on Friday 15 April, on how much the kindness of the Lake District people meant to the Japanese. The Lakes Hospitality Association (LHA) and the Lake District Japan Forum partnered … [Read more...]
Sanderson Hotel selects unbreakable dishes for Breakfast
Sanderson Hotel selects unbreakable dishes for Breakfast Service - they look and feel just like porcelain... "At the Sanderson Hotel , I was looking for a solution to stop porcelain chipping on our breakfast buffet - when I saw Primeware's Quality Melamine I knew I had just the answer" Says Executive Chef Peter Lloyd. It is an amazing range which you can see for … [Read more...]
£25m Edinburgh hotel launches Motel One in UK
Work will start this month on a £45m development on the edge of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile to bring a new hotel-led, mixed use development to the Castlehill area of the city. Multi-sector property developers, Chris Stewart Group, have announced that they have completed the purchase of a 140,000 sq ft site and have agreed terms with Motel One, one of Europe’s fastest growing … [Read more...]
Pub closures a serious issue and must come down, says David Cameron
Local drinkers were stunned when David Cameron popped into their newly reopened pub to wish them all the best. The Prime Minister and Witney MP visited the launch party of The Fox in Leafield, near Witney, last Thursday night for a pint and a natter with regulars. Brewery Admiral Taverns closed the village’s only pub in January last year, spurring a group of patrons to … [Read more...]
MORI sushi launch third outlet at 99 Kings Road
MORI sushi has just launched its third outlet at 99 Kings Road, London SW3, sharing the same strong design aesthetic as the previous two restaurants in St Johns Wood and Marylebone. The site, designed by CADA, encompasses a sense of Japanese minimalist style, whilst retaining a functional space for the high volume of customers. The aesthetic brief for the new site was to … [Read more...]
London hotels score through The Champions League Final
Despite not yet knowing who the two finalists will be, the UEFA Champions League final at Wembley Stadium in May has already caused a surge in hotel bookings for the capital. Group occupancy levels for the night of the game are already up a staggering 93.7% year-over-year. Europe’s footballing elite have battled it out this season in a bid to play in the final of the … [Read more...]
Travelodge plans £100m investment in 36 new hotels
Travelodge has revealed plans for a £100m investment in 36 new hotels by 2015 in partnership with pub companies. Already co-located with pub companies on 15 developments across the UK, Travelodge is now working with Greene King, JW Lees, Marston’s, Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) and JD Wetherspoon to find further development opportunities across the … [Read more...]
Video of the Week – Marco Pierre White Recipes – Grilled Sardines
Recipe of the Week, by L’Enclume’s Simon Rogan
Goat’s milk fed spring lamb, ramsons,turnips baked in salt and sheep’s milk curds. This recipe appears in the Spring edition of TableTalk, from Villeroy & Boch. To receive your free copy, send your name and address by email Ingredients For the Lamb sauce - 1 milk fed spring lamb, 4 weeks old weighing approx 7-8kg For the salt baked turnips - 4 medium size … [Read more...]
The HandCNews.com Football Pie League goes to Old Trafford
Last week a colleague went to sample the Portman Pie at Ipswich Town (the review can be seen here) and I went off to Old Trafford to test the pie offering there. I went with my two youngest sons Richard and Daniel as we are all big Utd fans. Before the game we went for a late lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe in Manchester and on a food related note I would give the burger and … [Read more...]
Introducing the Coffee Cup Innovator
The proliferation of the coffee shop makes it perfectly normal to see someone going about their business clad with a disposable coffee cup. Unfortunately it’s also all too normal to see the same cups littering public spaces everywhere. In the UK alone we use circa 500m cups a year, no that’s not a misprint 500m. Hospitality and Catering News recently spoke with someone … [Read more...]
Adams Park, a truly unique conference facility
Featured recently in The Incredible Pie League Blog...a truly unique conference facility set in the heart of the Chiltern countryside. Adams Park is home to League Two football club Wycombe Wanderers and Premiership rugby team London Wasps. Adams Park can cater for any type of event from one to one interviews through to parties for 400 people. All their suites contain … [Read more...]
55 closed Oddbins outlets for sale
Fifty-five closed off-licence stores in the Oddbins estate are being marketed for sale by Christie + Co on the instructions of Lee Manning and Matthew Smith (Deloitte LLP), Joint Administrators of Oddbins Limited and Oddbins Properties Limited. Christie + Co is to conduct a focused marketing campaign for the 55 stores across England, Scotland and Wales, with ‘best and final’ … [Read more...]
£15m Butlins hotel job awarded in Bognor
Sir Robert McAlpine has been awarded the design and build contract for a 244-room hotel at the Butlins resort in Bognor Regis, West Sussex. The hotel is part of a £100m investment being made over six years into revamping its resorts. The eight-storey development for Butlins Skyline will be L-shaped in plan, its upper levels reducing in footprint to create a series of … [Read more...]