The New World Trading Company’s pub, bar and restaurant brand The Botanist opened in Bournemouth last week. It is situated in the old Bobby’s department store building and is a 25th location for the group.
Five Guys is opening a 2,500 square feet restaurant at Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 5 later this year. It will be the brand’s first airport location in Europe.
Mission Mars’ pizza brand Rudy’s has confirmed plans for a new restaurant on Baldwin Street in Bristol this Summer. The 3,000 square feet site will be the first Rudy’s in south west England and a 34th location in all.
London burger brand Bleecker has confirmed plans for an eighth site in Soho. It will open in the Summer on Old Compton Street, in a unit that was previously occupied by Neat Burger. Bleeker’s other restaurants are in Spitalfields, Victoria, Bloomberg Arcade, Westfield, London Bridge, Seven Dials and Baker Street.
The Joule’s brewery is opening on Gas Street in Birmingham after acquiring the Waterside Tap there. It now has three pubs in the city and 41 in all.
Burger Drop opened on South Clerk Street in the Newington area of Edinburgh this week. It is the brand’s first restaurant in Scotland, joining four in north east England and one in Manchester.
The Heartwood Collection has reached the milestone of 30 pubs with the opening of The White Hart in Lymington.
Nando’s has just opened a new restaurant in the Hampton area of Peterborough.
Dumbo, a Paris-based smash burger brand, is launching into the UK with a restaurant on Bethnal Green Road in Shoreditch. It will be a fifth location for the group and a first outside Paris.
Hickory’s has just opened in the Middleeaze area of Swindon. It is a conversion of an old Hungry Horse pub there by Hickory’s owner Greene King.
International fast food brand Chicking is opening under franchise on Victoria Street in Derby, local media report. Chicking currently has 16 sites in the UK and more than 200 globally.
Remedy Bars is launching in Tottenham after acquiring the lease of the Elmhurst pub. It will open in August, becoming the group’s fourth location.
Devon-based East Street Pub Co has just opened its tenth location—a bar and restaurant called The Yacht in Torquay.
The Restaurant Group’s Concessions business is launching a new Italian concept called Primo Volo Italiano Kitchen and Caffe in the departures area of Glasgow Airport later in the Summer.
The Good Egg has just launched on Orford Road in Walthamstow. It is a fourth site after Camden, Margate and Stoke Newington.
Boofi, an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant with two sites in Glasgow and one in Clydebank, launches a fourth site in Dunfermiline next week.
SoBe Burger has just opened a restaurant on London Street in Norwich—its 15th location.
Okome, a Japanese restaurant group based in Glasgow, is planning to open a sixth location on Dumbarton Road in the city.
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