19th April 2022 Tibetan street food concept MoMoMo, which launched last year with a restaurant in Houndsditch in East London, is opening another London site. The concept, which sees steamed dumplings filled with vegetables, meat and traditional spices – popular in Tibet, Nepal, India and Bhutan – will open at 1 Charlotte Place, Fitzrovia with […]
27th March 2022 The Flavours takeaway in Bradford is on the brink of closure due to the energy crisis, according to its owner. Mohammed Awais, who has run the takeaway on Girlington Road for 12 years. He usually pays £260 for gas and £95 for electricity per month. With his current contract expiring at the
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25th March 2022 The acclaimed Ambrette restaurant in Margate is Kent, is set to close next week after more than a decade. The Ambrette combines Indian cuisine with British fine dining and has been run by owner chef Dev Biswal for 10 years. The former Asian Restaurant Awards’s ‘Asian Chef of the Year, also runs
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15th March 2022 Curry Leader warns VAT hike ‘Final Nail’ for Restaurants Yawar Khan, Chairman of the Asian Catering Federation (ACF) that represents 35,000 restaurants in the UK, has warned Chancellor Rishi Sunak that the proposed return to 20 percent VAT level in his Budget on 1st April will be the “final nail in the
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9th March 2022 Family-owned Thai restaurant in Manchester has re-launched its live cookery masterclasses for participants to learn how to cook their favourite Thai dishes. The cookery masterclasses¸ which will be located within the main area of the restaurant, will bring guests together to learn how to cook authentic Thai dishes. Running every Sunday, the
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7th March 2022 The 12th annual Asian Curry Awards were launched at one the most prestigious events in the hospitality calendar, at the House of Lords on 2nd March. Following a live cook-off in February, a select audience of 120 ambassadors, dignitaries, embassy officials, politicians, VIPs and leading restaurateurs, feted the winners of the Asian
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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
