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13th Asian Curry Awards 2023 celebrates the new heroes in British Asian Cuisine

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On 19th November we celebrated the 13th Asian Curry Awards at the prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel in London’s Mayfair, where dozens of chefs and restaurateurs took their place on the rostrum to receive much deserved recognition. In the company of international and national dignitaries, diplomats, parliamentarians, regional mayors and celebrities, award winners joined the ranks of […]

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Zula Partners With Yau

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8th December Zula, the Istanbul-based burger concept, has partnered with Wagamama founder Alan Yau to launch in the UK. The concept, which is the brainchild of Üryan Doğmuş and Cihan Kıpçak, is set to launch its first site in the UK next spring after securing a site near Marble Arch. It has acquired a site

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Gong Cha Goes

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1st December 2023 Gong Cha, the fast-growing bubble tea brand headquartered in the UK, has appointment Justin Goes as UK & Ireland development director. For nearly two decades, Goes worked at Subway and held several senior European roles including regional director Europe, where he helped grow Subway stores from 150 to more than 5,000. He

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Kricket Funding

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28th November 2023 Indian restaurant group Kricket has secured new funding ahead of opening a fourth London site and further UK expansion. The business, which was founded by Rik Campbell and Will Bowlby in 2015 as a pop-up in a shipping container at Pop Brixton, is due to launch a new site in Canary Wharf

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Mustaq’s Sold

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26th November 2023 Ajmal Mushtaq, founder of franchise pizza concept Boss Pizza, has sold his award-winning Indian restaurant in Scotland, which he claims has the “largest takeaway kitchen in the UK”.  Mushtaq, whose family have been operating in the area since the early 1970s, said the kitchen at Mushtaqs in Hamilton, serves thousands of meals a

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HOP London Wall

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23rd November 2023 London-based Vietnamese street food operator, HOP, has opened a site in the City, at London Wall. The company, which recently appointed Richard Franks, formerly of Chilango, as its new MD to aid plans to open up to 20 new locations in the capital over the next five years, has opened at 60

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Itsu Big and Bold

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22nd November 2023 Itsu, the Asian food chain, has opened its “biggest and boldest site so far”, in London’s Bishopsgate. Itsu, the healthy Asian food chain, has opened its “biggest and boldest site so far”, in the City of London. The group has opened a 2,200 square-foot, 60-cover site at 150 Bishopsgate. Itsu founder Julian

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Saddiq Khan at the Curry Oscars

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19th November 2023 Curry Oscars Winners Revealed at Glittering Awards Ceremony Guest of Honour London Mayor Sadiq Khan pays tribute Asian Curry Awards Winners invited join to new elite marketing platform More than 1200 VIP guests attended the Asian hospitality sector’s most prestigious event of the year, the Asian Curry Awards, otherwise known in the trade as

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