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Quality food-on-the-go has become the key growth area in the UK’s eating out market with new concepts consistently emerging in transport hubs and shopping centres as well as high streets locations, as consumers increasingly eat when they want, where they want. This is one of the key findings in the latest Ones to Watch report, […]

The Academy of Food & Wine Service (AFWS) has today pledged its support for vocational qualifications for 16-year olds, following this week’s media reports of criticism of some of the more practical exam subjects on offer. “Not all children are naturally academic,” commented AFWS executive director Sophie Roberts-Brown. “The education system must continue to offer […]

HVS, the leading global hospitality consulting and services company, has released an updated version of its influential book Hotel Market Analysis and Valuation, written by HVS chairman and founder Steve Rushmore MAI, FRICS, along with John O’Neill MAI, PhD and Stephen Rushmore Jr, MAI.

The Academy of Food and Wine Service (AFWS), the UK’s professional body for front-of-house staff, is inviting restaurant managers to enter its 2012 UK Restaurant Manager of the Year competition.

Eric Zwiebel MS, sommelier at Summer Lodge, Evershot, Dorset, has been chosen to represent the UK at the prestigious ASI World Sommelier contest being held in Japan in 2013. Eric contested his place at the world event against two former UK Sommeliers of the Year – Matthieu Longuere MS of La Trompette, London, and Nicolas […]

The UK’s hotel sector is set to experience further consolidation in the three- and four-star sector as lenders look to move into the next stage of action regarding over-geared groups. “Several hotel groups have now got a for-sale notice on them, and more are likely to in the near future. The banks are now confident […]

Sommelier Jan Konetzki, 31, of Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, was announced last night as the 2012 Moët UK Sommelier of the Year. The prestigious competition, organised by the Academy of Food & Wine Service, was held yesterday at the London International Wine Fair at ExCel. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Jan came to London five years ago […]

The names of the 12 sommeliers who have made it through to the final of this year’s Moët UK Sommelier of the Year competition, organised by the Academy of Food & Wine Service (AFWS), have been announced as:

Britain’s high street restaurants are working hard to give diners a choice of innovative new dishes with bold flavour combinations, as well as offering an increasing amount of information on their menus about the ingredients they are using. These are the key trends evident in the UK’s high street restaurants revealed by the latest Menurama […]