Joe Lutrario

Colombo-founded restaurant brand ISSO is hoping to make waves with its live-fire seafood concept, but importing a successful restaurant brand from overseas is rarely straightforward.

Named after his daughter Rosie, Adam Byatt’s new Wandsworth restaurant is a celebration of Italian ingredients, regional cooking and hospitality.

Danish-Japanese restaurant group Sticks’n’Sushi has declared 2025 a “breakthrough year” after total revenue surpassed £100m for the first time. The group, which operates 17 restaurants in the UK, 12 restaurants in and around Copenhagen, and three restaurants in Berlin, recorded turnover of £104.8m for the 12 months ending 31 December 2025, representing 6% growth on the previous year.

Togather, the UK events business behind food experiences for festivals, stadia, office residencies and private events, has acquired Field Vision Bars, one of the country’s leading festival bar operators. The two businesses will continue to trade under their own brands, bringing more than 60 event specialists together under a single combined F&B offering.

The co-owner and sales and marketing director at West Sussex hotel Tottington Manor and TERRA Restaurant on looking after her team and why food isn’t the most important thing.

The owner of top London restaurant Planque on Domaine d’Auvenay, Meursault restaurant Le Soufflot and ruining a bottle of 1966 Chave.

City of London speciality coffee group Rosslyn has launched a coffee shop on Cheapside, bringing its total number of sites in the Square Mile to 10. The opening comes a week after Rosslyn was named the highest-placed coffee shop in London in Europe’s 100 Best Coffee Shops, which is billed as the continent’s definitive ranking of speciality cafés.

Shaun Searley will depart Clerkenwell restaurant Quality Chop House after 13 years as executive chef later this summer. According to an Instagram post from the restaurant, Searley is leaving to fulfil a long-held ambition to open his own restaurant.

Following significant success in the capital, Burger & Beyond has headed to Brighton for its first regional restaurant.

The chef at Bristol’s Caper & Cure and Carmen Street Wine on his mentor Gordon Jones, Dairylea Dunkers and the importance of turning up to work on time.