News & views

Langdale Chase on the market

Langdale Chase is a popular wedding and function venue, which added a ￡1m 24-bedroom staff accommodation block, earlier this year. The site includes a Lake House with eight guest bedrooms, a boat house and two private jetties. There is also a 15-bedroom former staff house which could be converted to provide further guest accommodation, a spa or a separate function facility.

JLL’s Hotels & Hospitality team has been instructed to sell the hotel.

Eden Hotels

The Eden Hotel Collection has appointed Adam Brown as executive chef at the Mallory Court hotel in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.

He will take up his post on 1 August, joining the hotel from Brockencote Hall hotel in Worcestershire, also part of the Eden Hotel Collection, where he has been head chef for five years. The Sous chef  at Brockencote has been promoted to Head chef

Martin Wishart

A home-grown training programme in Edinburgh is chef Martin Wishart’s strategy for bringing young talent into his restaurant and the industry, what a great Idea, why not role this out across the country ? would help in the mid and long-term for chef shortages, and if in top class restaurants and hotels would help to develop a good skill set and working practise  

Gleneagles

The five-red-AA-star, 232-bedroom Gleneagles hotel in Auchterarder, Perthshire, has completed the first phase of a multi-million redevelopment to create a “bold and creative” resort under its new owner, Ennismore.

As well as refurbishing 35 bedrooms and creating a new look for its main Century Bar, the hotel has also added a new bar, Auchterarder 70 the property was  bought in July 2015 for around ￡200m, intends to mark a new chapter in the 92 year history of Gleneagles,

 Well we had to mention it!!(BREXIT)

According to  the now Lord Hague, The hospitality industry should accept the results of the EU referendum( do we have a choice now?) and look forward to ensure the sector’s needs are heard in the upheaval ahead. That was the message from Lord Hague who was speaking at the British Hospitality Association’s (BHA) Hospitality & Tourism Summit on the 27th June. He described the situation as “one of the messiest divorces in recent history” and “the most complex set of circumstances facing an incoming Prime Minister since Churchill in 1940”, However he urged the industry to accept the public vote, adapt to the change and “find the advantages among all the disadvantages”. Get ready to argue for changes in regulations you didn’t agree with,” he told hospitality chiefs. “It’s a really important time to influence your government.” Lord Hague, who was a vocal Remain supporter in the run-up to the Referendum, suggested the depreciation of the pound could benefit the hospitality industry and the Referendum result could have a positive impact if the sector is active in ensuring government and parliament hear its needs. He said: “Businesses [ahead] need resilience, flexibility and diversity of advice and opinion, along with more local knowledge of markets around the world. And we need more long-term thinking and to hold our nerve when we get hit by one of these bouts of volatility… We need to build economic confidence for people to invest.” Well that is a lot easier to say than do but the industry continues to get stronger, all be it at a slightly slower pace the next six months will give us a better view of how Brexit has affected the industry on room  rates, diners, wedding Business & corporate hospitality (watch this space)  

 Some of our current roles in the Uk,

FOH manager, Worcestershire

Operations Manager, Cotswolds

Head chef, Oxford

Assistant operations Manager, Cotswolds

Head Housekeeper, Gloucestershire

Deputy General Manager, Devon

Some of our positions In South east Asia

Head Chef Bangkok

Sales Director Vietnam

F&B Director, Bangkok

Restaurant Manager Samui (Thai National)

Deputy Hotel Manager Samui

Hotel Manager Bangkok (No 2)