In restaurant news: the UK government agrees to meet with petitioners asking for a Minister for Hospitality, Italian chain Prezzo closes 22 sites, and 2021 turns out to be the one year that Valentine’s Day actually works for restaurants.

With the on-trade one of the hardest hit by the pandemic, Isabelle Gray talks to UK restaurant owners and chefs to find out how a Hospitality Minister would help their businesses.

In UK restaurant news: a new app for the hospitality sector launches, the commercial rent moratorium is extended and restaurateurs from the Midlands lobby the government for extra support. 

In restaurant news this week: a loophole is found in Tier 2 restrictions which seems to allow business lunches, Scottish hospitality groups begin legal action against government measures, and Gordon Ramsay Burger is to open its first site outside Las Vegas in Harrods.

In restaurant news this week: the industry unites behind the ‘no more no-shows’ campaign, a poll suggests over half of hospitality outlets will take part in the UK government discount scheme, and Gizzi Erskine and Professor Green launch a pizza pop-up.

In restaurant news this week: English eateries start releasing reopening dates, the Rick Stein group closes two restaurants and the company behind Michelin-starred The Greenhouse gets wound up in court again. 

This week has seen a number of restaurants release planned reopening dates, the first Michelin-starred restaurant in the British Isles reopen, and wine members club and bar Trade announce it will relaunch in a new guise. 

We round up the latest restaurant news, from a series of virtual events at 67 Pall Mall to front-line cooking courtesy of Tom Kerridge. 

As lockdown in the UK continues, the hospitality industry continues to display ingenuity, from chef-led cook-alongs to wine therapy sessions.  

In one of the most challenging weeks that the hospitality industry has experienced in recent memory, we round up the latest news and the innovative ways in which businesses are attempting to stay afloat, including a truck distributing self-isolation survival cheese boards.  

We round up this week’s restaurant news, from the conversion of a London bus into a Turkish kebab restaurant and the opening of a pop-up Tiffany’s café to the arrest of four people over a machete attack at a Hove wine bar.

We round up the week’s restaurant news, from the opening of a cevicheria and fish boutique in Clapham to the closure of Bonnie Gull Soho.