• Wild and Game championing healthy choice

  5th February 2019 Asian Style Wild Boar   Wild and Game is urging people to include “lean, high protein and delicious” game  in their diets.   Game birds such as pheasant (which originated in India), partridge and grouse contain less fat than chicken, more protein and lower cholesterol, while wild boar (a Goan delicacy often […]

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• Fatburger and Buffalo’s Express to open 60 restaurants across India

  4th February 2019   FAT Brands and Franglobal Advisors are to develop 60 new co-branded Fatburger and Buffalo’s Express restaurants across India.   The joint-venture will see the restaurant company build and open the new locations over the next ten years. FAT Brands CEO Andy Wiederhorn said: “We are very excited to expand Fatburger and Buffalo’s Express globally […]

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• Yopo Fusion

  3rd February 2019   Yopo, a new fusion restaurant and bar concept is to launch in the boutique Mandrake Hotel in Fitzrovia, central London.  The concept will combine modern European and South American cooking  at the hotel in Newman Street.  Yopo takes inspiration from its namesake, a plant found deep in the jungles of Venezuela. […]

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• Gordon Ramsay closes Maze. Opens Lucky Cat

  2nd February 2019   Gordon Ramsay has closed his Maze restaurant in Mayfair and will replace it with an Asian-inspired concept. The Grosvenor Square restaurant has closed  after 14 years and will be transformed into Lucky Cat – an “authentic Asian eating house” and late-night lounge inspired by the drinking dens of 1930s Tokyo and […]

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• Birmingham Tattu

  1st February 2019   Contemporary Chinese restaurant group Tattu has opened its Birmingham city centre site, creating 80 jobs.  The 160-cover, split-level restaurant has opened in The Grand development in Barwick Street as the company’s third site.   New dishes created by executive chef Andrew Lassetter include chilli and sesame-roasted scallops with Chinese sausage, while […]

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• Walthampston Vegan Spice Box

  30th January 2019 Vegan curry concept SpiceBox has opened its debut permanent site, in Walthamstow, east London. Following a successful run on the street food circuit with Kerb, SpiceBox has launched a curry house in Hoe Street. The menu is modern Indian with a nod to the “iconic British curry house,” featuring plant-based versions of […]

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• Manchester Mowgli

  29th January 2019 Indian street food restaurant Mowgli has opened its second Manchester site. Founder Nisha Katona has opened the 100-cover, 3,294 square foot venue at the new University Green development in Oxford Road. “Mowgli is all about the smash and grab of fresh, light Indian food. This makes it perfect brain food for the […]

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• Rosa Thai Liverpool

  28th January 2019   Thai restaurant group Rosa’s Thai Cafe is to open its first site outside London, in Liverpool.   The venue will be the brand’s 16th site in total when it launches at Liverpool’s Albert Docks. Housed in a grade I-listed former warehouse, the 88-cover split-level restaurant, with a dedicated Liverpool menu to […]

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• Pho reopens in Oxford Street

  27th January 2019   Vietnamese street food restaurant group Pho has reopened its Oxford Circus restaurant in London, after six-months’ closure refurbishments. The restaurant in Great Titchfield Street was the group’s second restaurant when it opened in 2008.   The site was closed in the summer to undergo landlord works and a refurbishment. The new design […]

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• Jailbird Jilan Banned

  26th January 2019   A previously jailed Lincolnshire restaurant owner has received a nine-year directorship ban after submitting false tax returns. Jilan Moore, 68, from Silsby in Lincolnshire has been convicted of deliberately submitted false tax returns. Moore was the director of Beijing Dragon Catering, which operated three The Beijing Dragon restaurants in Lincolnshire. Beijing […]

  January 25, 2019 / George Shaw / Comments Off

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