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17th October 2018       Charity Fund Raiser announced for National Curry Week   Certificate of Excellence Award from Cobra Good Curry Guide           Kuti’s Brasserie, the fine dining Indian restaurant which opened in the former gate house of the historic Royal Pier in Southampton this summer, has been shortlisted […]

16th October 2018           Asian Curry Awards Shortlist Announced BBC’s Babita Sharma to host glittering ceremony   The eagerly-awaited short-list for this year’s Asian Curry Awards has been announced.  The winners will be revealed at a glittering awards-ceremony, hosted by BBC broadcaster Babita Sharman, at Grosvenor House, in Mayfair on Sunday

12th October 2018       Thirty guests including Kingston Mayor Thay Thayala and his wife Lata, the Lady Mayor, journalists, food bloggers, local business leaders attending a special lunch at Saffron Summer Indian restaurant in Chessington on Thursday 11th October. Guests enjoyed a feast of authentic Indian haute cuisine, which has seen the restaurant ranked

11th October 2018   London-based Taiwanese restaurant Bao is to open its third site. The company will launch the venue  in Borough in 2019.   Bao Borough will “offer a different culinary experience to its sister sites”, reports Hot Dinners.   Bao launched its Soho restaurant in April 2015, offering Chinese snacks, steamed buns and

  10th October 2018   Turkish restaurant Misya Mezze & Grill, which has a restaurant in Stevenage High Street, has opened a second site in Hertfordshire, in Welwyn Garden City.   The family-run business has submitted plans to transform town centre pub the Parkway Bar, which has been vacant since the end of last year.

9th October 2018   JKS Restaurants appoints executive chef: JKS Restaurants, the London restaurant group founded by Jyotin, Karam and Sunaina Sethi, has appointed Jitin Joshi as executive chef of Michelin-starred Mayfair eatery Gymkhana.   After training in India, Joshi moved to London in 2001 and worked under Eric Chavot before becoming head pastry chef

8th October 2018   Property management company, Daniel Johns Group, has opened Rock Spice, a high-end fusion food restaurant opening in Manchester.   The restaurant will focus on Asian fusion dining, with chefs taking inspiration from traditional Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi cuisines combined with Western influences, while also infusing traditional rock spice into each dish

5th October 2018     Jyoti Patel, founder of Red Rickshaw, the UK’s largest online Asian grocer, has launched a recipe box service.   Feast Box recipe kits contain authentic ingredients that can be combined to create Asian and Middle Eastern dishes. Recipes include curries from India, Thailand and Sri Lanka and are suitable for

4th October 2018 Edinburgh has the highest restaurant density in the UK in terms of the number of people per restaurant, according to  research from Local Data Company (LDC). New data showed the Scottish capital has just 1,771 people per restaurant within the city centre. Restaurants make up 12% of all retail and leisure sites

3rd October 2018     Soho institution the Red Fort closes after 35-years   Tony Blair’s once  favourite Indian restaurant, The Redfort on Dean Street in London has closed suddenly, with reports that terms of the lease had been broken.   A notice on the website of the Indian restaurant, which opened in 1983, says it is