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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3rd February 2022 A chef who started up a curry kit delivery service with his mother to keep himself and his staff busy under lockdown has seen his restaurant declared the best in Britain in a leading poll of diners. In its 31st year, Harden’s Best UK Restaurants 2022, priced £16.99) places Restaurant Sat Bains
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26th January 2021 The brothers behind En Root, the Indian vegan restaurant in Clapham, have to opened a new, open kitchen restaurant in Peckham. The restaurant follows its Clapham sibling, serving home-cook styled Indian meals “with a South London twist .” The restaurant is a cafe during the day serving up En Root classics, new
26th January 2022 The US-based Sushi on Jones Omakase bar has opened on Goods Way in King’s Cross, this brings the best of the traditional Japanese experience to N1, in just 45 minutes per guest. Omakase, meaning ‘chef’s choice’, is a form of Japanese dining in which guests leave themselves in the hands of the
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21st January 2021 The Chinese Buffet, a nine-strong chain of restaurants across the north of England, has introduced robot waitresses to serve customers. Owners Paolo Hu and Peter Wu have four “BellaBot” robots which talk to and serve customers and even sing Happy Birthday. The Chinese Buffet spokesman, David Ramsden, said: “It’s quirky and customers
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