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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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Kibou Growth

6th July 2021 Kibou Restaurants, the Japanese concept, is planning to expand over the next two years. The company announced it would open its third site later this year, in Bristol, after it secured the former Nettle & Rye site in King’s Road, Clifton Village, for an opening this October. It already operates sites in

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Lebaneats Expands

London-based Lebanese grab-and-go concept Lebaneats is set for a major expansion, with plans to open an additional 25 sites across the UK over the next two years. The owners also plan to open franchises across Britain. Since launching in 2009, the company has grown to five sites across central London as well as a kitchen

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House of Fun Leeds

4th July 2021 Leeds-based Rose Thirteen is to open a ramen restaurant and bar, House of Fu in the city. The company, which is behind Leeds’ Belgrave Music Hall, Headrow House and Ox Club, is launching in the city’s The Headrow area. After beginning life in 2014 as a pop-up at Belgrave Music Hall, House

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Ramo Ramen Soho

3rd July 2021 London-based restaurant group Maginahwa to is opening a second Filipino-Japanese ramen joint Ramo Ramen. The eaterie will open in Soho’s Brewer Street, on the site of the former Wild Rice. Ramo Ramen’s original site in Kentish Town puts a Japanese spin on Filipino classics such as kare kare and sinigang, katsu curry

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