Caterer and Hotelkeeper – 6452
PLANS IN THE PIPELINE
lSPECIALIST contractor Dean & Bowes is fitting out two upmarket café-brasseries, to be called Bewleys, at either end of the Channel Tunnel, Folkestone and Calais.
lCheltenham-based chef Pat MacDonald is relocating his Epicurean restaurant from the On The Park hotel to a grade II-listed building in the town centre, where he also has plans for a brasserie.
lAlton Towers has commissioned consultancy McNeece to design its first on-site hotel. Primarily aimed at family visitors, the 175-bedroom, three-star property will also be targeting the conference market. It will include a 225-seat restaurant, two bars, conference facilities and an adjacent leisure centre. Its style will apparently be "quintessentially English", with the architects briefed to create "something amazing and magical". It is scheduled to open in 1995.
INTERIORS SHOW set up
REED Exhibitions has finalised the team behind the newly launched Contract Interiors exhibition, making its debut in March 1995 and covering retail, hospitality and office design.
Nigel Beirne, who has worked in the design and building industry for 13 years and latterly built up Design Accord, an annual programme of interior design events, has been appointed development manager. Amanda Edginton will handle sales and Brian Bradford will be responsible for co-ordination. For details, call 081-940 4144.
ACCESSIBLE attraction
THE English Tourist Board has this month launched a guide to designing and operating hotels, restaurants and leisure facilities aimed at the 6.2 million British people with disabilities. Providing Accessible Visitor Attractions is intended for operators, architects, shop fitters and exhibition designers.
Copies cost £5 from Department D, ETB, Thames Tower, Black's Road, London W6 9EL.
DESIGN AWARD
LONDON designers Virgile & Stone's interior redesign for Chez Gérard (Interiors, Caterer, 15 July 1993) has won the 1994 Design Week magazine award for best restaurant design.
