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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 […]

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

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

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

2nd September 2024 Curry house owners face paying thousands of pounds in fines if they do not uphold new protections for employees introduced by Labour as part of its overhaul of workers’ rights. Government ministers are considering a warning system which would allow companies to make improvements before being hit with fines. But business leaders

30th August 2024 Clive Watson, co-founder of Capital Pub Company and City Pub Company, is launching Sixes Growth, an innovative leisure cricket venture with fellow co-founders – former cricketer David Nash and his brother Glen, and chef Atul Kochhar. D&G Group is a sports and entertainment hospitality company and was acquired by Pitch International in

30th August 2024 One of the most important events in the UK’s hospitality calendar – the Asian Restaurant Awards – was abruptly halted when its host venue, the Hilton Manchester Deansgate had to be evacuated midway through the glittering awards ceremony on Tuesday 27th August. MC for the evening BBC News anchor Samantha Simmons, was

8th July 2024 The Curry Leaf Cafe in Ship Street, Brighton has closed, marking the end of a ten-year-long business venture which shook up the city’s Indian offer when it first opened. But new chain competitors moving in nearby left the owners with no option but to shut up shop and call in administrators. Co-owner

7th August 2024 Birmingham craft beer and Indian street food concept Indian Brewery will open its new brewery and taproom in September. The business, which operates a venue serving its beer alongside Indian food at Snow Hill, will open at the site of the old Brook Welding warehouse in the city’s Jewellery Quarter. The venue