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More accolades for Canterbury’s Cook’s Tale restaurant

13th December 2024 Multi-award-winning The Cook’s Tale restaurant in Canterbury has received a further array of culinary accolades this month], to add to its impressive collection. The restaurant, led by owner-chef Dev Biswal, features as the only entry for Kent in the new British Indian Good Food Guide www.britishindiangoodfoodguide.com, where it is named as one of the Top 100 Indian […]

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Jai Ho expands

6th December 2024 JM Socials, which has 10 venues in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, is to open a new venue that mixes “Indian gastronomy with barbecue”. The company, co founded by Michael Raphel and Jay Rahman, is launching Jai Ho in the Gloucestershire village of Bishop’s Cleeve in 2025. Jai Ho will offer a menu centred

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UK-based Odisha Chef Indian Government Tourism Initiative

9th November 2024 Deputy Chief Minister to harness power of Indian diaspora Dev Biswal, the owner-chef of the highly acclaimed The Cook’s Tale restaurant in Canterbury in England, has praised the Odisha state government initiative to bring overseas tourists to his homeland. Exhibiting at the tourism trade show, World Travel Market (5th – 7th November) in London as part of

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2nd Octovber 2024 KoKoDoo, the Korean fried chicken cocept founded by Joseph and Mary Yoon in 2006 before evolving into a street food operation, has relaunched its franchise programme and is set to launch a new flagship site in London. Over the summer, KoKoDoo launched its fifth site, at Market Place Harrow in north west

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New Law on Tipping Introduced

1st October 2024 Millions of hospitality workers are now entitled to keep the fiull value of theri tips as a new law on tipping becomes effective today. Restaurants, coffee shops, cafes, pubs and other hospitality venues will be banned from withholding tips from their staff. Cash tips were already protected, but the new legislation extends

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