Focus On Angel: House prices have almost doubled in this central part of Islington in the last ten years January 4, 2018 Though the name has pious connotations, the Angel is actually named after a pub. Well, the 17th century Angel Inn was a hotel, too, then a restaurant, but is now a Co-Op Bank. Although there is a JD Wetherspoons pub called The Angel next door. As an incredibly central part of the London borough of [...]
Gaucho Group appoints Oliver Meakin of Maplin Electronics as CEO to replace founder Zeev Godik January 3, 2018 Restaurant group Gaucho appointed a new chief executive to replace founder Zeev Godik, who left last year amid rumours he was forced out. Oliver Meakin, currently boss of Maplin Electronics will take the reins of the Argentine steak restaurant chain at the end of the month. He is a former colleague of Gaucho’s new chairman [...]
Compass CEO Richard Cousins and family killed in plane crash: The City pays tribute January 2, 2018 Tributes have been paid to the FTSE 100 chief executive who was killed alongside his family in a New Year’s Eve plane crash. Richard Cousins, 58, the outgoing CEO of the world’s largest catering firm, Compass Group, died in a seaplane crash near Sydney Harbour on 31 December 2017. Also killed were Cousins’s two sons [...]
This property investment firm now owns a huge chunk of Seven Dials after acquiring six more shops | City A.M. December 20, 2017 West End investment firm Shaftesbury announced this morning that it has acquired six more shops on London’s Neal Street, in Seven Dials, for £24.6m. This means Shaftesbury now owns a whopping 70 per cent of the shops on the northern section of Neal Street, the busy road which connects Covent Garden Underground station to Shaftesbury [...]
Minor Hotels takes £58m stake in The Wolseley and The Delaunay operator Corbin and King December 18, 2017 The owner of some of London’s most iconic eateries has sold a £58m stake to a Thai hospitality group. Corbin and King, named after its founding partnership Chris Corbin and Jeremy King, is behind restaurants including The Wolseley, The Delaunay, and Brasserie Zedel. The majority stake in the company has now been snapped up by [...]
British consumers drink more sparkling wine for sixth year in a row as cava, prosecco and English wine take over December 18, 2017 Fans of prosecco, cava, and English sparkling wine have pushed up the national consumption of bubbly to the equivalent of 162 Olympic swimming pools. Sparkling wine consumption in the UK increased five per cent oveer the past year, to a total of 1.62m hectolitres, according to UHY Hacker Young. This marked the sixth successive year [...]
Focus On Dulwich: Forget the new shiny skyscrapers, this London village attracts well-heeled families with good schools, period houses and bags of charm December 15, 2017 A Tube stop is usually the making of a neighbourhood in London. But in the case of Dulwich in south east London, the absence of a London Underground station may have been an advantage. Left to its own devices and hardly a tourist hotspot, some say this has allowed Dulwich to develop a character all [...]
London Stansted’s owner has just launched a startup to improve its tech credentials using Amazon and Asos for inspiration December 7, 2017 London Stansted’s owner has today announced plans to improve customer experience and fight off competition from a rising wave of travel startups – by launching what will effectively serve as its own startup. Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has launched its own technology and e-commerce arm, which it said will enable the airport group to respond [...]
Island Poké review: Hawaiian street food has hit the streets of Canary Wharf this week, so we try it out to see if it’s any cop December 5, 2017 Island Poké Broadgate Circle, EC2M WHAT? If you haven’t already said aloha to poké, the biggest street food trend of the year, then you better hurry up because there isn’t much of 2017 left. Pronounced pok-eh, the word means “cut” or “dice” in Hawaii. WHERE? The one we visited was nestled into the second tier [...]
Island Poké review: Hawaiian street food has hit the streets of Canary Wharf this week, so we try it out to see if it’s any cop December 5, 2017 Island Poké Broadgate Circle, EC2M WHAT? If you haven’t already said aloha to poké, the biggest street food trend of the year, then you better hurry up because there isn’t much of 2017 left. Pronounced pok-eh, the word means “cut” or “dice” in Hawaii. WHERE? The one we visited was nestled into the second tier [...]