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The founder of a leading catering firm, Hattie Mauleverer, has written to the Prime Minister to ask the Government not to forget her side of the industry. Mauleverer, from Top Hat Catering, said the £43.3bn sector is being forgotten amongst all the Covid-19 noise. She said financial aid is needed to prevent it from further […]
Catering company Tart London is to launch a neighbourhood restaurant in October. Wild by Tart is the work of founders Jemima Jones and Lucy Carr-Ellison, who have have teamed up with Tom Warren of Lock Studios, a photography and events space in Hoxton. The restaurant will be housed a former power station and coal store […]
London’s renovated Centre Point tower will include a destination restaurant from the Rhubarb catering group when it reopens next year. The 34-storey office block was one of London’s first skyscrapers when it was completed in 1966, but caused a scandal when it was kept empty for its first nine years, during a housing crisis. Now Grade 1-listed, the tower is […]
Peyton and Byrne, the catering company responsible for restaurants and cafés in many of London’s most prominent museums, including the National Gallery (pictured), has gone into administration after two loss-making years. The loss of key contracts with Kew Gardens and the British Library was apparently the final straw for the company, which was founded by Oliver […]
We all know the flapping, fluster and general furore that can precede planning a dinner party. Buying candles and napkins, checking you have enough champagne flutes and glasses, choosing the right wines to go with your menu – deciding on a menu in the first place. It is a complex and intricate business. A menu […]
