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More accolades for Canterbury’s Cook’s Tale restaurant

13th December 2024 Multi-award-winning The Cook’s Tale restaurant in Canterbury has received a further array of culinary accolades this month], to add to its impressive collection. The restaurant, led by owner-chef Dev Biswal, features as the only entry for Kent in the new British Indian Good Food Guide www.britishindiangoodfoodguide.com, where it is named as one of the Top 100 Indian […]

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Selin Kiazim to open Oklava Amsterdam

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12th November 2024 Selin Kiazim, co-founder of modern Turkish restaurant Oklava, which ran for seven years in London’s Shoreditch, has opened a restaurant in Amsterdam. The London-born chef, a Great British Menu winner in 2017, has opened Esra with partner and co-founder Steph de Goeijen, who previously worked in front-of-house and restaurant management roles for

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SSP Groups plans IPO for India travel hub

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9th December 2024 UK operator of food and beverage outlets in travel locations worldwide, SSP Group, is planning an IPO of one of its travel hub concepts in India. In a joint venture with K Hospitality Corp, SSP’s plans to IPO Travel Food Services (TFS), a leading player in the country’s fast-growing airport quick service

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Jai Ho expands

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6th December 2024 JM Socials, which has 10 venues in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, is to open a new venue that mixes “Indian gastronomy with barbecue”. The company, co founded by Michael Raphel and Jay Rahman, is launching Jai Ho in the Gloucestershire village of Bishop’s Cleeve in 2025. Jai Ho will offer a menu centred

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Kent chef to serve spectacular 20-course tasting menu

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16th November 2024 Throughout December, one of Kent’s most renowned chefs is to offer an exclusive 20-course signature tasting menu to celebrate the finest and most luxurious ingredients that the culinary world has to offer today, costing £350 a head. The exquisite dishes will be served on the table by Dev Biswal, owner chef of

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UK-based Odisha Chef Indian Government Tourism Initiative

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9th November 2024 Deputy Chief Minister to harness power of Indian diaspora Dev Biswal, the owner-chef of the highly acclaimed The Cook’s Tale restaurant in Canterbury in England, has praised the Odisha state government initiative to bring overseas tourists to his homeland. Exhibiting at the tourism trade show, World Travel Market (5th – 7th November) in London as part of

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Good Curry Guide returns after 12-year absence

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7th October 2024 National Curry Week launch for online publication Founded and published in print by the late Pat Chapman between 1984 and 2013, the Good Curry Guide will reappear for the first time in 12 years, this time online www.GoodCurryGuide.net. Pat’s former friend and colleague George Shaw has announced that he is to revive the Guide in

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Tikka Nation adds University site

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3rd October 2024 Indian street food concept Tikka Nation has added to its university campus footprint with the opening of its eighth site. It has opened at Royal Holloway University in Egham, Surrey, having earlier this year opened at on the lower ground floor at Leeds University students’ union. Founders Sumit Jain and Vikas Narula

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2nd Octovber 2024 KoKoDoo, the Korean fried chicken cocept founded by Joseph and Mary Yoon in 2006 before evolving into a street food operation, has relaunched its franchise programme and is set to launch a new flagship site in London. Over the summer, KoKoDoo launched its fifth site, at Market Place Harrow in north west

New Law on Tipping Introduced

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1st October 2024 Millions of hospitality workers are now entitled to keep the fiull value of theri tips as a new law on tipping becomes effective today. Restaurants, coffee shops, cafes, pubs and other hospitality venues will be banned from withholding tips from their staff. Cash tips were already protected, but the new legislation extends

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