21st July 2019 Cyrus Todiwala is to open his first restaurant outside London. Todiwala will launch Tandem, a “celebration of authentic Indian cuisine and cocktail mixology” at Highcross shopping centre in Leicester. It will be Todiwala’s fifth restaurant in total, including Café Spice Namasté and Mr Todiwala’s Kitchen. Tandem will launch in late […]
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20th July 2019 The owners of York-based Indian restaurant Coconut Lagoon are to open a second in the city. Saji and Sminy Kurian will open Kalpakavadi at a site in Fossgate, formerly occupied by St Pauls Bookshop. The 2,000 square foot unit is currently being refitted following a major investment. Kalpakavadi means “land
19th July 2019 ‘Asian Chef of the Year’ to serve celebratory Indo-Chinese dinners Following his double success at the recent Asian Restaurant Awards, chef Dev Biswal is to serve a series of special celebratory Sino-Indian Chinese celebratory dinners at his three restaurants. Dev, who owns The Ambrette
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17th July 2019 Vegetarian Middle Eastern concept, Bubala, will open its first permanent site later this summer in London’s Spitalfields. The brainchild of Marc Summers, co-founder and former general manager of Berber & Q, and head chef Helen Graham, who has worked at The Palomar, The Barbary, The Good Egg and Ottolenghi, Bubala
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14th July 2019 New Sri Lankan concept Paradise is set to take over the site in Soho occupied by Spuntino when it moves later this month. relocates at the end of the month. In March, restaurateurs Russell Norman and Richard Beatty, who are also behind Polpo, announced they would relocate Spuntino following an agreed return
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12th July 2019 UK noodle bar concept Wok&Go has launched in Portugal – its first site on mainland Europe. Debuting in the Algarve Shopping Centre, it will be followed by a branch in Lisbon in August. Wok&Go founder Des Pheby recently signed a franchise agreement with BrandPlus, which will lead to 20 stores
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10th July 2019 Bun House, the bao and pickle cafe concept, is convert their original site in Soho into a late-night bar and restaurant. Founders Z He and Alex Peffly relocated the restaurant from Greek Street to a larger site in Chinatown London in April. The pair will now transform the original venue into Wun’s,
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9th July 2019 Saffron Summer, the fine dining Indian restaurant in Chessington, which was named Best Asian Restaurant (London Suburbs) at the Asian Restaurant Awards, is to offer free meals on exam results days in August. To claim their reward of a special celebratory three-course lunch or dinner*, students simply need to
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8th July 2019 Manchester-based EatsMeatsWest is introducing delivery and online ordering at its two WowYauChow restaurants, in Rochdale and Altrincham. The company will launch its first online and mobile ordering service, powered by ordering technology provider Preoday. The service will launch at the Altrincham branch and extend to Rochdale later this month. The third WowYauChow
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6th July 2019 Indian street food brand Mowgli, is to open a site in Leicester next month in St Martin’s Square. Katona told Leicestershire Live: “Leicester was the place we travelled to on a family day out to buy bright plastic mugs, mad floral melamine plates, spices, incense and Indian vegetables. It was the bright lights, big
