10th July 2021 Nisha Katona, the founder of the 12-strong Mowgli Indian street food chain, Katona said: “The dogs and family have approved a possible site in London for October” and is also looking at Newcastle and Cambridge for 2023-24 and the brand would “continue to build at the steady rate of four sites a […]
9th July 2021 Itsu, the healthy Asian food chain, is open a second restaurant in the UK, Propel has learned. The new restaurant, due to open in late September, will be located at Food Central, the recently completed £168m expansion to Leicester’s Fosse Park shopping and leisure destination. Itsu recently partnered with Pizza Hut and
9th July 2021 The Chefs’ Forum is to host ‘The Future of Asian Kitchens Seminar, in association with Rational. The free-to-attend online event is open to all Asian restaurateurs, chefs, caterers, kitchen plannersand designers. It promises to be “particularly useful for future planning and for addressing the challenges and opportunities currently facing the Asian dining
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9th July 2021 Three Midlands-based restaurateurs have been banned from being company directors after concealing earnings. Brothers Abul Azad, Abul Ashraf, and Abul Khaled, from Melton Mowbray, operated three Indian restaurants – Apurba, Bombay Brasserie and Tandoori Knights – through their company A & A (Melton Mowbray). Investigators found they “deliberately or recklessly destroyed or
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8th July 2021 The award-winning family-owned chain of Kushi restaurants and takeaways in East London and Essex, is to give customers free vindaloo if England win the UEFA Euro 2020 Final on Sunday. Every customer who orders a vindaloo between now and kick off on Sunday, to eat on or takeaway, can claim another free
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6th July 2021 Kibou Restaurants, the Japanese concept, is planning to expand over the next two years. The company announced it would open its third site later this year, in Bristol, after it secured the former Nettle & Rye site in King’s Road, Clifton Village, for an opening this October. It already operates sites in
London-based Lebanese grab-and-go concept Lebaneats is set for a major expansion, with plans to open an additional 25 sites across the UK over the next two years. The owners also plan to open franchises across Britain. Since launching in 2009, the company has grown to five sites across central London as well as a kitchen
4th July 2021 Leeds-based Rose Thirteen is to open a ramen restaurant and bar, House of Fu in the city. The company, which is behind Leeds’ Belgrave Music Hall, Headrow House and Ox Club, is launching in the city’s The Headrow area. After beginning life in 2014 as a pop-up at Belgrave Music Hall, House
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3rd July 2021 London-based restaurant group Maginahwa to is opening a second Filipino-Japanese ramen joint Ramo Ramen. The eaterie will open in Soho’s Brewer Street, on the site of the former Wild Rice. Ramo Ramen’s original site in Kentish Town puts a Japanese spin on Filipino classics such as kare kare and sinigang, katsu curry
1st July 2021 Michelin-listed and former Asian Curry Awards winner Grand Trunk Road on the East London/Essex margins has appointed Arup Dasgupta, as its new Head Chef. Dasgupta replaces Daya Sharma has has opened Dulwich Heritage in South London. Chef Dasgupta who is skilled in Western, Classical Indian a variety of Asian cuisines, and has
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