30th January 2023 Persian restaurant group Naroon has opened a third London site. The original Naroon in Fitzrovia has moved to a location space more than double its size across the road at in Great Titchfield Street, triple its covers and a much larger kitchen, allowing for an expanded menu. The team has also turned […]
25th January 2023 Butter chicken (Murgh Makhani), one of India’s best-known dishes and a global favourite, is at the centre of an extraordinary curry war in India. Two rival restaurant chains are seeking a legal ruling over who invented the recipe for the signature dish. The dispute has gone national in India, with television stations covering
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24th January 2024 US street food brand The Halal Guys is looking to new openings outside of London as it seeks to expand to 50-plus UK sites. The business, which has more than 100 sites globally, opened its second site here in November, in Wood Green, north London. It debuted in the UK in March
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22nd January 2024 Citizen Spritz has entered the low and no alcohol drinks market with a range of “carefully crafted” mixes with “sophisticated and deeply complex” flavours to be combined with sparking soft drinks to create a “refreshing aperitif style beverage.” The brainchild of Mark Gould and Mike Bagshaw, “passionate foodies with a zest for
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14th January 2024 Swiss hospitality group, Michel Reybier Hospitality, is to launch a new Japanese and Peruvian fusion restaurant in its debut London hotel. La Muña will be located within L’oscar London, the boutique hotel it opened in the former Baptist Church headquarters in Holborn in 2018, in Spring. It will be led by exec
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10th January 2024 Since Brexit made it harder for Europeans to work in the UK, British pubs and restaurants have come to rely on labour from further-flung parts of the world, but Rishi Sunak’s planned crackdown on migration is threatening to stifle that supply, according to Bloomberg. Arrivals to the UK from countries such as
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3rd January 2023 London-based wine startup, NICE has launched its first lower ABV Session Wine in time for ‘Dry January’: a 3.4% ABV NICE Session Sauvignon Blanc and NICE Session Merlot, developed to taste like a full-strength wine Other alcohol categories such as beer and spirits, have successfully developed No and Low ABV options that
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29th December 2023 Meet Bros in Paddington, an Asian-inspired steakhouse opened in May by the the Serai Group that owns the Malaysian chain Me’nate Steak Hub, one hoping to benefit from the restaurant-goers taking part in ‘Dry January’. A semi-fine dining experience, Meet Bros is a fully halal, alcohol-free, Asian-inspired steakhouse that celebrates the “meeting”
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28th December 2023 A new sparkling wellness drink, inspired by Sri Lankan “plant alchemy” is now available. Unlike “added vitamin” brands which often using synthetic lab-made powders to fortify their drinks, humble warrior delivers its vitamins naturally sourced botanical ingredients like acerola cherries, ginger and turmeric. The brand was inspired by co-founder, Rosh Amarasekara’s, experience of learning
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12th December 2023 Restaurateurs looking to tap into Dry January can serve the month’s “official” drink, CBD rich TRIP. In 2023, 9 million UK adults participated in ‘Dry January’ according to the Alcohol Change UK) charity, with similar numbers of participants expected this year. However, one in three fail to make it to the end of
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