CareerCareer story, 4 October
82p in Every Quid - hospo crowned the UK's most-taxed trade
New trade body number-crunching says hospitality hands over more tax per pound of profit than any other sector. Banks pay less than half that.
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CareerCareer story, 4 October
Christmas Temps Need Papers Too - Right to Work checks just got bigger
Since 1 October, Right to Work rules reach well beyond your payroll. Agency staff, contractors and last-minute cover are all in scope.
CareerCareer story, 4 October
Keys to the Kingdom - Travelodge review sparks call for hotel security rules
A damning independent review found Travelodge security wasn't fit to keep guests safe. A survivor now wants rules for every hotel.
CareerCareer story, 4 October
Ramsay Clears £100m - and the City tower is doing the heavy lifting
Gordon Ramsay Restaurants' UK arm broke nine figures in 2025, powered by its five-in-one site at 22 Bishopsgate.
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Tish Hangs Up the Title - Ben Tish steps back at Cubitt House
Six months after Young's bought the group, Ben Tish leaves the chef director job but sticks around as a consultant.
CareerCareer story, 4 October
Farmer J Grows Like a Weed - revenue up 50% as the bowls go to New York
The healthy fast-casual brand jumped from £27.9m to £41.1m in turnover, though losses widened as it splashed out on growth.
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Pints at German Prices - Jennings drops the cost of Castle Bitter for a day
On Friday 9 October, a Cumbrian brewery is pricing its bitter as if Britain taxed beer like Germany does. Pubs across the country are joining in.
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Ten Seats, No Menu - Endo opens a tiny omakase in Chelsea
Sushi master Endo Kazutoshi has opened a 10-seat counter in the old Five Fields site, with a listening bar upstairs.
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Fire Downstairs, Vinyl Upstairs - Prince Arthur lands in Chelsea
The Belgravia favourite opens a bigger Chelsea sibling on 6 October, with Basque live-fire cooking and a Tokyo-style music bar.
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Pizza Brine in Your Martini - Spring Street opens a bar next door
One of south London's top pizza joints is opening a 2,500 sq ft martini bar in the Borough arches. No pizza allowed, though.
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Subs In, Chicken Fingers Delayed - the American invasion rolls on
Jersey Mike's has named four London sites ahead of a November launch, while Raising Cane's pushes its UK debut to 2027.
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Gold Leaf Ceilings and a £15k Spa - The Emory wins London's top AA hotel gong
The all-suite Belgravia hotel overlooking Hyde Park has been named the capital's best by the AA. Rooms start around a grand a night.
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Cheat Daze opens under the arches - waffle balls and dirty sodas land behind Central Station
The fast-growing dessert bar has opened its first Newcastle spot on Forth Street, with cheesecakes, brownies, kunafa and a long list of fizzy dirty sodas.
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NIPO brings Japanese-Brazilian cooking to the Quayside
Sushi and slow-cooked beef rib on one menu: the new restaurant from the team behind Rio Brazilian Steakhouse has just had its first weekend.
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Newcastle Cocktail Week is on - £5 cocktails in 55 bars until 11 October
Grab a wristband and you can unlock signature cocktails from a fiver across the city, from Vampire Rabbit to The Botanist.
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£6 lunches at both STACKs - burgers, bao and a Yorkshire pudding bowl
STACK Newcastle and St. James' STACK have a menu of street food lunch deals at £6 each, from Monday 28 September.
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Oktoberfest Newcastle returns to Times Square, now with two sessions a day
Steins, bratwurst and oompah bands in a 2,000-capacity bierhaus on 10, 17 and 24 October.
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After Hours at House of Tides: £30 steak frites on a Sunday night
Kenny Atkinson's Michelin-starred restaurant goes relaxed downstairs every Sunday this autumn, with a DJ, candlelight and cocktails.
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99p noodles on Tuesday 6 October, plus a slurping contest in Gateshead
Chopstix is marking National Noodle Day with 99p boxes in participating shops, and it's opening at the Metrocentre soon.
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37 years on Sandhill: why Uno's Trattoria hasn't changed a thing
The family-run Italian has been a Quayside fixture since 1989, and its calzones and autograph walls are still pulling in regulars and famous faces.
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The Hustler is coming back - Newcastle's snooker club finds a new home at Haymarket
The pool and snooker club that closed in April after almost 50 years will reopen in the former Labour Club building before the end of 2026.
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Ruby Rae's gets bigger, and throws a country festival in Times Square on 23 October
Newcastle's first dedicated country bar has knocked through to fit more people in front of the stage, ahead of Ruby Rae's XL.
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Revolución de Cuba closes in Newcastle; NEOS swaps in Barbara's Bier Haus for Christmas
The four-floor Cloth Market bar shut on 26 September after eight years. Its owner is reopening the site as an après-ski party bar in December.
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Amber Taverns takes on the old Goose site in Newcastle and renames it The Gander
The city-centre pub near St James' Park closed as The Magpie in June. Its new owner is refurbishing it, with no opening date yet.
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Landsec agrees £516m deal for the Metrocentre
The FTSE 100 REIT is buying all of the Gateshead centre from Tynehawk Holdings and raising £500m of new equity to help fund it.
CareerCareer story, 4 October
NE1's Restaurant Week breaks its records: 60,000 diners, 130-plus venues, £1.2m in menu sales
August's 15th-anniversary edition was the biggest yet, and first-timer Cocochine says it was full most lunchtimes and evenings.
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Full Circle at Fenwick is hiring before it opens this month
The Ouseburn brewery's first pub opens in Fenwick in October, with Peckin' Order on the food, and it's recruiting kitchen and floor roles now.
CareerCareer story, 4 October
The Oliver: £60m plan to turn Shena Simon Campus into a 167-bed Curio hotel goes to consultation
CERT Property wants feedback by 14 October on the conversion of the grade II-listed Chorlton Street building, which will include a 200-capacity events space, restaurant and bar.
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The Old Packet House in Altrincham reopens after a £390,000 refit
The licensee and Admiral Taverns split the investment in the 1770s canalside pub, which needed serious work.
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Gusto on Lloyd Street reinvents itself as GiGi, a grill room with a piano bar
Jamie Barber of Cherry Equity and chef Sam Astley-Dean are behind the relaunch of the landmark Italian in the old City Library building.
CareerCareer story, 4 October
New Century drops its food hall for Locker, a 450-capacity gig venue, and one kitchen
The NOMA landmark's ground floor now pairs a grassroots music room with In Hand, a single gig-friendly food offer, instead of several traders.
CareerCareer story, 4 October
Manchester Town Hall opens bookings for weddings and events from January 2028
The Grade I-listed building, closed since 2018 for the UK's biggest restoration project, reopens to the public next year and to commercial events after that.