Openings

Budget hotel chain Travelodge has opened two hotels in London as it sets to launch a further 20 properties across the capital over the next five years.

Jude Kereama, chef-patron of Kota and Kota Koi, is to open his third restaurant on the Cornish coast.

Acorn Award-winning chef Scott Paton has opened Àclèaf, a new restaurant at Boringdon Hall in Plymouth, showcasing British produce through both a four-course signature menu (£80) and a six-course tasting menu (£95), paired with an English-led wine offering.

After winning Great British Menu and securing a restaurant in his own name, James Cochran thought all of his dreams had come true. But when a nasty trademarking case soured his hopes, the Whitstable-born chef looked back at his roots[...]