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Atul Kuchhar Wembley Way

14th July 2021 Chef Atul Kochhar is to launch a restaurants in Wembley and Beaconsfield in Buckinghamshire. Masalchi, which means “the spice master”, will be on the corner of Olympic Way and Wembley Park Boulevard. It will serve a pan-Indian menu of dishes that Kochhar discovered at street markets during his gastronomical travels of India. […]

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Colonel Saab

13th July 2021 Indian entrepreneur and hotelier Roop Partap Choudhary will open his first UK venture this summer – ‘Colonel Saab’ – a new all-day modern Indian restaurant and bar in Holborn. This will be Roop’s first venture outside of his native India, where he is MD at boutique 5* hotel Noor Mahal in Karnal.

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Lemon Grass

12th July 2921 Thai restaurant chain Lemongrass has opened its 12th site, at The Heart Shopping Centre in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. The restaurant, which is located next to Carluccio’s on New Zealand Avenue, will offer a wide variety of Thai dishes from fine dining to tapas. Lemongrass offers innovative yet classic cuisine of the highest calibre

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You Me Sushi To Triple

12th July 2021 You Me Sush is planning to more than triple its eight-strong estate over the next months, including the launch of its first franchised sites, The compnay plans to grow to about 30 stores in the next 18 months. This year, we will open a further seven stores, including five franchise stores. Its

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Romolu Backs Summer of Love

12th July 2021 Asian Restaurant Award winner, Filipino Romulo Café & Restaurant is supporting the Kensington and Chelsea’s Summer of Love activation, by offering 50% off all foodand non-alcoholic drinks, up to £10 per person). Romulo, been named Kensington’s favourite local restaurant two years in a row offers dshes such as, Beef Pares Mami (slow

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Ling Ling’s

11th July 2021 Asian-inspired food concept Ling Ling’s has opened a late-night bar and music venue Tola Peckham. Ling Ling’s offers a changing small plates menu at the Peckham High Street venue in south London. Diners will be able to eat at the site’s rooftop and ground-floor lounge bar, and can opt for dishes such

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Mowgi

10th July 2021 Nisha Katona, the founder of the 12-strong Mowgli Indian street food chain, Katona said: “The dogs and family have approved a possible site in London for October” and is also looking at Newcastle and Cambridge for 2023-24 and the brand would “continue to build at the steady rate of four sites a

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Itsu

9th July 2021 Itsu, the healthy Asian food chain, is open a second restaurant in the UK, Propel has learned. The new restaurant, due to open in late September, will be located at Food Central, the recently completed £168m expansion to Leicester’s Fosse Park shopping and leisure destination. Itsu recently partnered with Pizza Hut and

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Chefs’ Forum to Host ‘The Future of Asian Kitchens Seminar

9th July 2021 The Chefs’ Forum is to host ‘The Future of Asian Kitchens Seminar, in association with Rational. The free-to-attend online event is open to all Asian restaurateurs, chefs, caterers, kitchen plannersand designers. It promises to be “particularly useful for future planning and for addressing the challenges and opportunities currently facing the Asian dining

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Restaurant Owners Struck Off

9th July 2021 Three Midlands-based restaurateurs have been banned from being company directors after concealing earnings. Brothers Abul Azad, Abul Ashraf, and Abul Khaled, from Melton Mowbray, operated three Indian restaurants – Apurba, Bombay Brasserie and Tandoori Knights – through their company A & A (Melton Mowbray). Investigators found they “deliberately or recklessly destroyed or

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