14th August 2023 New Award Categories for Best Brunch and Afternoon Chai The finalists for this year’s Asian Restaurant Awards in Scotland – the only accolades open to the full spectrum of Asia’s rich and diverse cuisines – have been revealed. The complete shortlist, featuring over 70 of the nation’s leading Asian restaurants and takeaways, […]
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14th August 2023 Restaurateur Rajesh Suri has announced the closure of his iconic Grand Trunk Road venue on the East London/Essex border in South Woodford. The establishment took its inspiration from the eponymous C16th trade route – Asia’s longest road, connecting Bangladeshi with Afghanistan. In 2016, Rajesh Suri’s vision for Grand Trunk Road was to
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31st July 2023 At a glittering gala dinner hosted by BBC news anchor Samantha Simonds, winners at this year’s Asian Restaurant Awards received some of the hospitality sector’s most prestigious accolades – uniquely open to the entire range of Asian cuisines. The awards were presented by Sir Graham Brady, MP, Chairman of the 1922 Committee.
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27th June 2023 The world’s youngest two Michelin-starred restaurateur is set to make his international debut in London. Syed Asim Hussain, who became the world’s youngest restaurateur to have restaurants that hold two Michelin stars, at the age of 32 in 2018, will run twocouple of pop-ups this summer ahead of his team’s first international
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25th June 2023 Asian Restaurant Awards The shortlist for this year’s Asian Restaurant Awards, being held in Manchester at the end of July, has been announced. Over 100,000 online votes from members of the spice loving public determined the finalists. The list can be viewed at www.asianrestaurantawards.org/the-shortlist-2023 Judges from the Asian Catering Federation (ACF), which organises the event,
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21st June 2023 High street sushi can be even saltier than two Big Macs, according to The Daily Mail showed. The paper audited dozens of options sold at Wasabi and Itsu, with Itsu’s vegan sushi collection found to contain roughly 5.8g of salt. This is almost all of an adult’s daily recommended allowance and around
20th June 2023 Harneet Baweja, the co-founder of home-style Indian kitchen concept Gunpowder, has opened his new disco-themed Indian restaurant Empire Empire in London’s Notting Hill. The 40-seter Empire Empire has opened in All Saints Road and serves food rooted in the Punjab region of Indian, with dishes such as chicken malai curry and lobster
16th June 2023 A third of people in hospitality have experienced discrimination while working, according to a report by Be Inclusive Hospitality. The third edition of the Inside Hospitality Report 2023 report, which surveyed over 3,000 hospitality workers across the UK, found that just under 85% of respondents at the director level have witnessed discriminatory
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14th June 2023 A pledge by shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds comes as new analysis from Labour shows more than 6,000 pubs have shut since the Conservatives took power. In the south east, 1,000 pubs have been lost since 2010, while the south west saw 730 pub closures. London, the north east and Northern Ireland
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6th June 2023 South Indian vegetarian restaurant brand Adyar Ananda Bhavan has opened its third UK site. The original concept was founded thirty nyeatrs ago, by the late KS Thirupathi Raja in Chennai (Madras) in India, with branches opening throughout the city and internationally, including the US, Australia and Canada. Now the third UK outlet
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