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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4th June 2023 Indian street food restaurant Tamatanga is open in Leeds, in The Headrow, in The Light scheme of the city, on 16 June, with its offer including its signature Tamatanga Thali – a large variety platter offering the choice of one or two different curries from the menu – and Tama Chips, with
3rd June 2023 Mooboo opens in Letchworth: Mooboo – one of the largest bubble tea operators in the UK with more than 100 locations – has opened a new site, in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. The business, founded by Eric Khaw in 2012, has opened in the former Joyce Family Butchers site at 5 Arena Parade. Mooboo offers
2nd June 2023 Sorowar Khan, owner of Mango Indian restaurant in Borough, south east London, has opened a new all-day dining Indian restaurant in nearby Elephant & Castle. Kachori has opened in Ash Avenue in Lendlease’s Elephant Park, focused on north Indian cuisine. Executive chef Brinder Narula, ex Benares and Gymkhana, has created dishes inspired
1st June 2023 Nominations open for restaurant and chef awards The launch of the 7th Asian Restaurant Awards – Scotland, hosted by Shadow Minister for Culture, Europe, and International Development, Foysol Choudhury, at the Scottish Parliament, was met with a call for real government support for the beleaguered hospitality sector – in addition to the “nice words”
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