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Cocoa grower and chocolatier Hotel Chocolat has opened Roast + Conch, a casual café concept serving cocoa-based food and drink, in London's Seven Dials district of Covent Garden with plans for a fine dining restaurant in the UK to follow.

The Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) has launched a new website to provide diners with a easy-to-use means of finding places to eat out that match their values.

Jamie Oliver has acquired a site in Winchester for the first Union Jacks restaurant outside London it has been confirmed, while the successful Italian casual dining concept Jamie’s Italian will see five more openings before Autumn amid plans for a further venture at Gatwick Airport.

Jan Matthews, head of catering, cleaning and waste services for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG), is set to present the Arena Savoy Lecture on 20 March.

With two major events happening in Britain this year - the Olympics and the Queen's Jubilee, food trends agency The foodpeople is predicting a rise in demand for classic British dishes on menus in 2012.

Jason Atherton is to open a restaurant in Singapore in June called Pollen.

La Tasca’s Brighton restaurant has been closed for refurbishment after a fryer in the kitchen caught fire on 30 January and spread to other parts of the building in North Street.

Six months on from the August riots, BigHospitality has spoken to Jan Topcu who, with fellow graduate and business partner Fabio Teixeira, was able to transform a derelict bank into a thriving restaurant in the heart of Tottenham.

Chef demonstrations from Aiden Byrne and Ben Spalding feature in the line-up for this year’s Northern Restaurant & Bar show in Manchester alongside the announcement of the first NRB Top 50 list of industry operators in the North.

Mele e Pere, the new Italian trattoria from former Wild Honey and Les Deux Salons chef Andrea Mantovani, will open in Soho this week.

Gordon Ramsay and his company Gordon Ramsay Holdings (GRH) have reached a settlement with Chris Hutcheson and three other members of his family over a claim that they were unfairly dismissed from the company, bringing to an end a two-year dispute.

With multi-cuisine, buffet-style outfits continuing to gather pace in the UK, Za Za Bazaar – the big-hitting newcomer which holds claim to the largest restaurant in the country– is set to open its second site, with fellow restaurateurs beginning to take note.

TripAdvisor has been told it can no longer claim that reviews posted on its website are from real travellers or are ‘honest, real or trusted’ following a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

The director of London 2012 games transport at Transport for London, Mark Evers, has told BigHospitality transport help and advice is available for restaurants, hotels and bars and pubs but hospitality businesses also need to help themselves.

Chef Richard Phillips has closed his restaurant at Chapel Down Vineyard in Kent after the local council restricted the number of weddings it could hold.

The National Chef of the Year competition is back for 2012, celebrating its 40th anniversary and calling for chefs from across the nation to enter.

The number of vocational qualifications being offered to secondary school pupils is to be cut to 125 from the current 3,175 to better improve students’ prospects, the Department of Education has announced.

The Considerate Hoteliers Association has teamed up with the Green Tourism Business Scheme and Greentraveller.co.uk to promote sustainable tourism and hospitality businesses.

With Hotelympia on the horizon the hospitality industry is gearing up to descend on the ExCel centre, but with five days (26 February-1 March) of awards, product launches, chef demonstrations and more it can seem a daunting prospect, so BigHospitality previewed the highlights to give you our must-see checklist.

The deadline for entries into the 2012 Roux Scholarship has been extended by four days to Friday 3 February.