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Top 25 Restaurant groups based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 1,067 restaurant groups headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 37,629 professional contacts across them, including 3,854 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers restaurant groups headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 16, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest restaurant groups based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7,187 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1898, we're one of the largest operators of restaurants, pubs and bars in the UK, providing a wide choice of eating and drinking-out experiences through our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,327 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Loungers is led by CEO Nick Collins and backed by Lion Capital Private Equity and, as of April 2026, has over 310 sites.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,169 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our story began in when we opened our first restaurant in New Oxford Street, London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 598 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We're The Restaurant Group (TRG for short) and we're one of the UK's biggest hospitality businesses.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 522 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Rhubarb Hospitality is an international premium collection specialising in luxury event catering, iconic restaurant dining and venue hospitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 482 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At D&D London we are passionate about all things food and drink.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 447 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TGI Fridays first opened in New York in 1965 with flowing cocktails and charismatic bartenders wearing red and white stripes and making every night feel like a Friday.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 428 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are one of the UK’s leading privately-owned restaurant groups with upmarket Italian and Grill restaurants in central London, major UK cities, affluent towns and their suburbs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 423 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Big Table is proud to be one of the UK’s leading independent restaurant groups.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 421 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tashas Group is a hospitality company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 390 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EL & N Group is redefining the experiential food & drink landscape.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 363 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Casual Dining Group is one of the largest independent restaurant companies in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 328 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Deltic is one of the largest specialist late night operators in the UK with 42 clubs and bars including brands such as PRYZM, ATIK, Bar & Beyond and eden.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 301 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Welcome to Sexy Fish part of Caprice Restaurants Daring, glamorous, and always one step ahead.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 283 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “JKS Restaurants was founded by siblings Jyotin, Karam and Sunaina Sethi in November 2008, receiving critical acclaim and industry recognition since its inception, which currently…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 279 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Oakman Inns & Restaurants Ltd was founded in 2007, embodied by its first venture, The Akeman in Tring, Hertfordshire.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 274 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in by Martin Wolstencroft and Chris Ure, ARC Inspirations is a commercially successful bar group in the North of England, operating 3 brands with 20 venues in total.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 243 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Urban Pubs & Bars was founded in 2014 by Nick Pring and Malc Heap and has since expanded to an estate of 58 pubs, bars and restaurants across London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 241 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Be At One Cocktail Bars was founded in 1998 by three well-seasoned bar tenders who were determined to bring back fantastic customer service and consistency to the cocktail bar…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 229 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Megan's is an independently owned, dog friendly, all-day dining restaurant with a Mediterranean inspired menu.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 226 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are an award winning collection of cosy pubs and atmospheric brasseries at the heart of their local communities serving great fresh, seasonal food that comes with three star…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 223 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ETM Group is a collection of exceptional bars, pubs and restaurants providing the best food, drink and service in stylish locations for our discerning customers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 221 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our desire is that every brasserie feels as authentic, warm and welcoming as Maman Blanc’s home, with a comfortable space where our guests can gather & savour all the various…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 219 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Operating 22 venues and counting, Buzzworks is an acclaimed bar and restaurant group, offering aspirational, casual drinking & dining set in welcoming environments with a buzz…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Giraffe is a vibrant casual-dining restaurant that takes inspiration from cuisines from around the world ensuring we have the best tasting dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 16, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: restaurant groups. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names restaurant groups.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of restaurant groups, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name restaurant groups. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Restaurant groups based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 16, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 1,067 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among restaurant groups, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “restaurant groups”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names restaurant groups), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among restaurant groups, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,854 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 16, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Restaurant groups by metro
- Restaurant groups in London330
- Restaurant groups in Manchester32
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names restaurant groups, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many restaurant groups are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 1,067 restaurant groups headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Mitchells & Butlers PLC, headquartered in Birmingham, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most restaurant groups?
London leads with 330 headquartered companies, followed by Manchester (32) and Glasgow (19).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,854 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,067 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 16, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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