Covid-19: Irish Cabinet To Approve Indoor Hospitality Plans
The Irish government is expected to sign off on plans to reopen indoor hospitality later.
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The Amsterdam Restaurant Using Individual Greenhouses For Social Distancing
With Dutch restaurants, bars and other catering services engulfed in uncertainty over how they might adjust to the 1.5-meter society, one Amsterdam restaurant is set to experiment with a brand new way of condoning off its guests: Using enclosed greenhouses.
PHE Warns Hospitality Businesses To Cut Sugar Or Face Further Government Action
Public Health England (PHE) has called on the hospitality industry to step up efforts to reduce the sugar and calories in dishes or face further government action.
Food Purveyor Fauchon Launches First Boutique Luxury Hotel in Paris | forbes.com
It sure is going to have one heck of a minibar.
Central London’s W Hotel Launches Vegan Menu | livekindly.co
One of central London's most luxurious hotels, the W Hotel London, is introducing a new vegan menu.
Chocolate hotel opens in Bournemouth | thecaterer.com
Chocoholics looking to stay in Bournemouth now have two properties to stay following the launch of the Chocolate Box B&B. The 13-bedroom business joins sister property, the 15-bedroom Chocolate Boutique hotel, which had a starring role in the Channel 4 series Three in a Bed. Both properties are owned by the Wilton family. Gerry Wilton is a chocolatier who launched one of the first companies to import chocolate foundations to the UK. His daughter, 26-year-old Leoni, is the brainchild of the Chocolate Box.
'World's best chef' Benoit Violier dies aged 44 | bbc.com
Mr Violier, 44, ran the Restaurant de l'Hotel de Ville in Crissier, near the city of Lausanne. It earned three Michelin stars and came top in France's La Liste ranking of the world's 1,000 best eateries. Swiss police said Mr Violier, who was born in France, appeared to have shot himself. The Swiss news website 24 Heures said that Mr Violier had been due to attend the launch of the new Michelin guide in Paris on Monday.
Top 10 best-value luxury afternoon teas at London hotels | londonhotelsinsight.com
It’s that time of year when the annual Tea Guild Awards come round again and we’ve done our usual added-value research from their findings to help you track down the best – and best-value – London hotel afternoon teas. Dubbed by some as the Oscars of the afternoon tea world, these awards have been rewarding establishments that excel at delivering quality experiences for almost three decades. This year The Goring (tea pictured above) gained the highest honour – Top London Afternoon Tea 2013 – while 22 London venues were given prestigious Awards of Excellence.
Former head of the Orient-Express Hotels group Simon Sherwood to lead Conran restaurants | telegraph.co.uk
Mr Sherwood, who ran the luxury hotel and train company for 13 years until 2007, is to lead the strategic development of D&D London, the restaurant chain set up by Sir Terence Conran. D&D London, which began life as Conran Restaurants and whose sites include some of London’s best known eateries, was bought by LDC as part of a £50m management buy-out. Well-known restaurants owned by the company include Bluebird in Chelsea and Quaglino’s in Mayfair.
Most Expensive Room Service: Moscow Hotels Lead The Way In Hotel Extra Charges | huffingtonpost.ca
Hotel room service is often the forbidden fruit of travel: tempting but dangerous when it comes to the final bill. And where you indulge can matter as much as how much you indulge according to TripAdvisor.
When high tea is highway robbery: Hotels charging up to £85 for champagne and scones | dailymail.co.uk
But the delight of taking afternoon tea at a high-class hotel is now likely to be accompanied by another of the nation’s favourite pastimes: grumbling about the bill. Which? has denounced prestigious establishments for charging as much as £85 for little more than a cup of tea and a couple of scones, branding the practice ‘highway robbery’. The consumer watchdog found that the five-star Lanesborough hotel in Knightsbridge offers an £85 per person afternoon tea, albeit accompanied by a glass of 1998 Prestige Krug champagne.
Would you like a luxury room with your meal? | londonhotelsinsight.com
The problem with London hotels in the past wasn’t always that the food was unexciting; quite a few hotels had extremely good chefs working for them. No, the problem was that the ambience was unexciting – ancient waiters in dinner jackets, rooms that hadn’t been redecorated since the Duke of Wellington’s day and a rather starchy feel. That’s all changed today and so has the way many hotels see their food service. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, for instance, is really a Heston Blumenthal restaurant which just happens to sit within the Mandarin Oriental hotel – rather than being the hotel’s dining room.
Do hotels really need full-service restaurants? | londonhotelsinsight.com
London hotels have contrasting views on this particular topic. Flagship hotel restaurants are often seen as a selling point. This especially applies to luxury hotels, with Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester and Gordon Ramsay at Art Deco gem Claridge’s notable examples, along with Galvin at Windows (Hilton on Park Lane) and Apsley’s at the Lanesborough.
Bottle of vintage Dom Perignon bought in bar for £35,000 | telegraph.co.uk
A bottle of vintage Dom Perignon was bought in bar for £35,000 Photo: PA The methuselah of 1996 Rosé Gold, dubbed the 'King of Champagnes', was sold at a top London hotel. A till receipt shows the buyer left a £10,625 tip – in addition to the £4,375 service charge.