• Food To Go To Grow by a Quarter

  24th July 2019   The UK food-to-go market is forecast to increase by more than a quarter (26.4%) to reach £23.4bn by 2024, up from £18.5bn in 2019, according to research from retail analysis company IGD.   The channel is to undergo double the growth of the wider UK food and grocery retail market (12.5%) […]

  July 26, 2019 / George Shaw / Comments Off

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• Sethis pub move

  22nd July 2019   Karam, Jyotin and Sunaina Sethi, the family behind JKS Restaurants and London venues including as Gymkhana, Trishna and Brigadiers, is set to make a move into the pub sector.   The family has plans to take over The George in Great Portland Street for a gastro-pub concept with James Knappett, chef patron of Sethi-backed, […]

  July 26, 2019 / George Shaw / Comments Off

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• Cyrus Todiwala to open Tandem in Leicester

  21st July 2019   Cyrus Todiwala is to open his first restaurant outside London. Todiwala will launch Tandem, a “celebration of authentic Indian cuisine and cocktail mixology” at Highcross shopping centre in Leicester.  It will be Todiwala’s fifth restaurant in total, including Café Spice Namasté and Mr Todiwala’s Kitchen.   Tandem will launch in late […]

  July 24, 2019 / George Shaw / Comments Off

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• Coconut Lagoon

  20th July 2019   The owners of York-based Indian restaurant Coconut Lagoon are to open a second  in the city.  Saji and Sminy Kurian will open Kalpakavadi at a site in Fossgate, formerly occupied by St Pauls Bookshop. The 2,000 square foot unit is currently being refitted following a major investment.   Kalpakavadi means “land […]

  July 24, 2019 / George Shaw / Comments Off

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• Celebratory Indo-Chinese dinners

  19th July 2019           ‘Asian Chef of the Year’ to serve celebratory Indo-Chinese dinners     Following his double success at the recent Asian Restaurant Awards, chef Dev Biswal is to serve a series of special celebratory Sino-Indian Chinese celebratory dinners at his three restaurants.   Dev, who owns The Ambrette […]

  July 19, 2019 / George Shaw / Comments Off

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• Bubala Spitalfields

  17th July 2019   Vegetarian Middle Eastern concept, Bubala, will open its first permanent site later this summer in London’s Spitalfields. The brainchild of Marc Summers, co-founder and former general manager of Berber & Q, and head chef Helen Graham, who has worked at The Palomar, The Barbary, The Good Egg and Ottolenghi,   Bubala […]

  July 19, 2019 / George Shaw / Comments Off

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• Sri Lankan Paradise

  14th July 2019   New Sri Lankan concept Paradise is set to take over the site in Soho occupied by Spuntino when it moves later this month. relocates at the end of the month.   In March, restaurateurs Russell Norman and Richard Beatty, who are also behind Polpo, announced they would relocate Spuntino following an agreed return […]

  July 19, 2019 / George Shaw / Comments Off

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• Wok Goes to Portugal

  12th July 2019   UK noodle bar concept Wok&Go has launched in Portugal – its first site on mainland Europe.  Debuting in the Algarve Shopping Centre, it will be followed by a branch in Lisbon in August.   Wok&Go founder Des Pheby recently signed a franchise agreement with BrandPlus, which will lead to 20 stores […]

  July 19, 2019 / George Shaw / Comments Off

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• He said. She said.

  10th July 2019   Bun House, the bao and pickle cafe concept, is convert  their original site in Soho into a late-night bar and restaurant.  Founders Z He and Alex Peffly relocated the restaurant from Greek Street to a larger site in Chinatown London in April.  The pair will now transform the original venue into Wun’s, […]

  July 10, 2019 / George Shaw / Comments Off

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• Free meals for A grade students at Saffron Summer

  9th July 2019         Saffron Summer, the fine dining Indian restaurant in Chessington, which was named Best Asian Restaurant (London Suburbs)  at the Asian Restaurant Awards, is to offer free meals on exam results days in August.   To claim their reward of a special celebratory three-course lunch or dinner*, students simply need to […]

  July 9, 2019 / George Shaw / Comments Off

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