Food&Drink Leeds-based brewer and bar chain secures £375,000 funding The UK’s largest independent invoice financier, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has struck a deal with North Brewing Company Ltd for a £375,0000 Confidential Invoicing Discounting (CID) package, to support the business’s cashflow and enable the founders to focus on future growth. The Leeds-based business started its life By The Editor • 3 min read
Food&Drink New Bradford College chef academy launched with MyLahore Restaurants A new chef academy specialising in British Asian cuisine is set to enhance the Catering & Hospitality training on offer at Bradford College. The MyLahore Academy will shortly be enrolling its first class of adult (19+) students who will commence the new programme in September. Fifteen students will learn the By The Editor • 2 min read
Food&Drink Yorkshire distillery announces its first Special Release for 2023 The team at Yorkshire's first single malt whisky distillery have released the next bottling of their Double Oak series. Filey Bay Double Oak Special Release single malt whisky is Hunmanby-based Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery's second whisky to have been matured in Virgin Oak casks, following the By The Editor • 2 min read
Food&Drink The Alchemist Trinity Leeds turns 10 Pioneering cocktail bar The Alchemist, Trinity Leeds turns 10 this month and is celebrating a decade of ground-breaking creativity by bringing back some of its most beloved hero cocktails. Opening back in 2013 in the then brand-new Trinity shopping complex, The Alchemist quickly established itself as a visionary brand that By The Editor • 2 min read
Food&Drink Fans flock to to meet Rate My Takeaway’s Danny Malin Top YouTuber Danny Malin the face of Rate My Takeaway was “emotional” after an exclusive meet and greet in Wakefield saw fans travel from far and wide to meet the online star. Fans headed to the recently purchased The Ridings Shopping Centre in Wakefield to meet Yorkshire funny man Danny By The Editor • 2 min read
Food&Drink Waterside Shipley celebrate 7th anniversary with new menu Waterside, the much loved canalside fine dining restaurant, mark their seventh year of successful business with the launch of a brand new lunch menu. Cast your mind back seven, and there weren’t many fine dining institutes in Shipley. In fact, widen the net to Shipley’s surrounding areas too By The Editor • 2 min read
Food&Drink York Minster Refectory restaurant date announced to open The long-awaited full public opening of the new York Minster Refectory restaurant is set for Thursday, April 20th. The new accessible-to-all brasserie-style restaurant - at Minster Yard, Deangate, York - will have daytime and evening dining along with a mixture of smaller function, lounge and private dining options and a By The Editor • 1 min read
Food&Drink Local, Foraged & Fresh – New Menu Launch for York’s ‘Waste-Less’ Neighbourhood Restaurant An innovative social dining restaurant in the city which serves contemporary eclectic cuisine, cooked over fire has launched a new menu featuring local, foraged and fresh ingredients – April dishes at Forage Bar & Kitchen include a coffee-rubbed pork chop with used coffee grounds and a local wild garlic kimchi; roasted By The Editor • 2 min read
Food&Drink Unique Rotherham hospitality venue goes up for lease or sale A five-year-old hotel, restaurant and wedding venue business, which has a diary full of bookings including five weddings and generated an £800,000 turnover in its first year of trading, is up for lease or sale - with a price tag of £75,000 for the business, or £1m for By The Editor • 2 min read
Food&Drink Paul Baron - shortlisted for personality of the year Paul Baron is I am Döner's founder starting his career in the catering industry he went all the way up to work as a chef in a Michelin star restaurant and being trained by top chefs, ending up as head chef in a restaurant in Clitheroe. Food has By The Editor • 1 min read
Food&Drink Yorkshire Garden Centres group reaches final of regional food and drink award The team at a Bradford-headquartered garden centre group is celebrating after reaching the final of a regional food and drink business award. Yorkshire Garden Centres has been shortlisted in the Best Retailer category in the Azets Food and Drink Business Awards. Managing director Mark Farnsworth, said: "We have grown By The Editor • 1 min read
Food&Drink North Yorkshire whisky distillery reaches final of regional food and drink award The team at Yorkshire's first single malt whisky distillery is celebrating after reaching the final of a regional food and drink business award. Hunmanby-based Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery has been shortlisted in the Best New Drink Product category in the Azets Food and Drink Business Awards. Spirit of By The Editor • 1 min read
