11th January 2022 Fusion restaurant brand Shushisamba is to open in luxury department store Harrods in Knightsbridge. The new concession will offer a selection of premium sushi. Orange Brands Management, the global restaurant group behind Sushisamba, Duck & Waffle and Duck & Waffle Local, is scheduled to open a site under the former brand in […]
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10th January 2022 Street food trader Pasan Nissanka has left his job with Bombardier to open a Sri Lankan restaurant, Colombo Street, in Nottingham. Nissanka came to the UK to study aerospace engineering. “When I first moved to the UK something I really missed was Sri Lankan food. It’s not very common here. I started
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4th January 2022 Chef Cyrus Todiwala is to host a Goan-Portuguese supper club at his Cafe Spice Namaste, Royal Albert Wharf in London’s Docklands with Nesan Creations. The event will begin at 6:00pm on Thursday, 13th January at £65 a head.
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6th December 2021 Sri Lankan street food operator The Coconut Tree has acquired its eighth site, in Birmingham. The 1,600-square-foot two-storey bar and restaurant in Gas Street due to open in early next year The planned expansion follows openings in Reading and Bath in 2021. The site adds to other branches in Cardiff, Bristol, Oxford,
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3rd December 2021 Modern Persian Kitchen, a takeaway and delivery service, has launched a £75,000 crowdfunding campaign finance expansion. The company, which cooks and delivers Persian dishes from its base in Stockton, recently launched a range of pantry goods and gift hampers. It is now looking to branch out into events and catering, recipe kits,
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25th November 2021 Ambrette Kitchen in Ashford, Kent, which was launched in response to the lockdown during the pandemic, was named as the UK’s Takeaway of the Year, at the Asian Curry Awards. The achievement was acknowledged as truly remarkable, given that Ambrette’s owner-chef Dev Biswal had never prepared a takeaway meal in his illustrious
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24th November 2021 The family-owned, award-winning chain of Kushi restaurants in East London and Essex, has been named Best Restaurant Group – East of England at the Asian Curry Awards. This latest prize marks an incredible year for Kushi, which was also feted at the Asian Chef of the Year Awards in June and again
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23rd November 2021 The Rajdani Indian restaurant near Sevenoaks, has been named Asian Restaurant of the Year – Home Counties at the Asian Curry Awards, emulating the achievement when it won a similar accolade at the event in 2017. “I’m so thrilled,” said Rob Khan, owner of the popular West Kingsdown venue, who invested around
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22nd November 2021“The days of the cheap Friday night curry are coming to an end.” More than 800 VIP guests attended the Asian hospitality sector’s most prestigious event, the Asian Curry Awards in association with Just Eat. Held at the Grosvenor House in London’s Mayfair on Sunday 22nd November, the evening was hosted by the
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15th November 2021 Korean barbecue chain Yori is launching its first regional venue with an opening in Cambridge Yori has secured the Varsity site in St Andrew’s Street. has been closed since the start of the pandemic. Meaning “cooked food” in Korean, Yori was founded in 2016 by Jong Soon Kim, who is also behind
