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26th July 2021 Milton Keynes-based Punjabi restaurant Namji is to double up with a second site in the Buckinghamshire town. Owner Naseem Khan is adding to her original outlet in Wolverton with an opening at the Xscape Centre. The split-level restaurant, which will be set across two floors, will also serve Punjabi afternoon tea and […]

24th July 2021 Itsu, the healthy Asian food chain founded by Julian Metcalfe, has agreed to open the brand’s second franchise restaurant with the Savvi Dining Group 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.

22nd July 2021 Indian hotelier Roop Partap Choudhary is to open a UK restaurant in September. Choudhary, who is behind hotels including The Jewels hotel in Karnal, India, is launching Colonel Saab in London’s Holborn. The venue will have 150 covers, withencompassing a 100-cover dining room and mezzanine, and two private dining rooms hosting up

20th June 2021 Indian street food concept Mowgli is to open in Dukes Lane, Brighton, its first venue in the south east The 12-strong group recently opened in Cheshire Oaks, and has openings planned in London, Bristol and Cheltenham lined up for later this year. Founder Nisha Katona is also looking at Newcastle and Cambridge

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.

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.

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

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

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