4th March 2022 The Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company has declared 14th April as National Laverbread Day, a new national day dedicated to the joys of laverbread – a traditional Welsh seaweed delicacy. Laverbread is the cooked version of ‘laver’ – porphyra seaweed – a diaphanous red algae found abundantly along Wales’ rocky coastline. Cooked for […]
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2nd March 2022 London-based chef Ajay Chaurasia has opening a second Indian restaurant in the capital. Chaurasia has teamed up business partner Ram Singh to launch Bombay Delight in Wimbledon. The Broadway venue seats up to 120 covers and have a bar area and large private dining room. The menu features a number of lesser-known,
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1st March 2022 Madina Kazhimova and Anna Dolgushina, who operate the Asian restaurant Wong Kar Wine in St Petersburg Russia, expect to make their UK restaurant debut this spring. The pair are set to open Firebird in Poland Street in Soho, which used to house Mexican restaurant Corazon before it closed last year. Firebird will
28th February 2022. The Indians Next Door, which has been selling Kenyan-Indian street food at markets across London for a decade, has opened a first bricks-and-mortar site. Its Spitalfields “somasa and bhaji house” in Lamb Street, offering recipes dating to those served up by its ancestors in 1920s Gujarat. Its food is also available through
28th February 2022 Chef Ashwani Kumar of the Mango Lounge in Windsor has scooped the top award at this year’s Asian & Oriental Chef Awards. Open to professional chefs across all Asian and Oriental cuisines, nominations were invited from members of the public, restaurant critics, food journalists and bloggers. Contestants were required to prepare a
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11th February 2022 Jason Almeida, former ops director at Thai Leisure Group, has launched Potyo, based on coastal Indian cuisine. Almeida, who was previously commercial director at Red’s True Barbecue and had roles at Loch Fyne Restaurants, Allied London and the Al Shaya group in the Middle East, has launched the new venture with his
10th February 2022 World of Zing has devised a new Thai-Inspired cocktail menu for is Rosa’s Thai restaurant group. Five cocktails, including a Coconut Island Daiquiri and a Lychee Ginger Spritz, have been crafted by Channel 4 Sunday Brunch mixologits Pritesh Mody using consumer research by food and drink specialists. The World of Zing cocktails
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8th February 2022 The founder of beer brand Cobra has said prices will have to rise because of a “vicious cycle” of cost pressures. Lord Bilimoria said “virtually every business in every sector” is being squeezed by inflation, interest rate rises and tax increases. The Cobra chairman, who is also president of the CBI employers’
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7th February 2022 JKS Restaurants s to open a second site under its Iranian concept Berenjak, in London’s Borough Market. The concept, which launched in Soho in October 2018, will open on the former Flor site in Bedale Street. The first Berenjak opened in Romilly Street and reinterprets hole-in-the-wall kebab houses that line the streets
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4th February 2022 Japanese Kaiseki restaurant Roketsu has openeded its debut site in London with Chef Daisuke Hayashi. Hayashi is one of the only masters of the Kaiseki tradition globally, and the first to bring this spectacular and lesser-known form of Japanese dining to London. Kaiseki dining, originally a traditional meal served to Buddhist monks
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