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Chef Profile: Rohit Ghai, Kutir and Manhattan Restaurants

13th September 2024 Rohit Ghai won a Michelin star for Jamavar within ten months of the restaurant’s opening. His first solo venture opened in 2018 and won ‘Restaurantof the Year’ at the British Restaurant Awards in 2022.  Both Ghai’s London restaurants attract a celebrity clientele including Ed Sheeran, James Blunt, Pierce Brosnan and Roger Federer.Rohit’s […]

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6th September 2024 Wiltshire Indian restauranteurs Foyez Rahman and Khaled Miah have opened a second site. Business owner Rahman and Miah, his uncle and head chef, have opened Sasa’s Indian Kitchen and Bar at the Pettifers Hotel in Crudwell. The pair also run Asha Indian Kitchen in The Crown at Cerney Wick, offering a fusion

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£150K Fine for Takeaway Owner

5th September 2024 The boss of a Hertfordshire takeaway whose kitchen was littered with rat droppings and a slow-draining sink that rendered handwashing ineffective, faces a full Criminal Behaviour Order (CBO). Muhammad Ali Safwaan Choudhury, the owner of British Raj Express, was ordered to pay nearly £150,000 at St Albans Magistrates’ Court after previously pleading

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KTV

4th September 2024 London operator Bao, founded by Shing Tat Chung, Erchen Chang and Wai Ting Chung, is to launch a new restaurant and flagship KTV (Taiwanese “karaoke TV”) in the City of London. Opening on the former Ekte Nordic Kitchen in Bloomberg Arcade, the new restaurant’s dining room is flanked by two private KTV

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Dang’s Spitalfields

3rd September 2024 Saiphin Moore, the co-founder of Rosa’s Thai, is to open a new fried chicken concept, Dang’s, in London’s Spitalfields. The new restaurant, which located beneath Moore’s Slurp Noodles site in Commercial Street, will specialise in Thai fried chicken – or ‘Hat Yai’ chicken after the southern Thai city where it originated. Earlier

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