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28th July 2019   Wirral-based Silk Rd, the restaurant concept inspired by the Silk Road trail, is planning to build a seven-strong estate as it prepares to open a fourth site. Silk Rd has doubled its presence in Liverpool city by launching a in Hope Street on Wednesday to join its Beetham Plaza outlet. Founders Chris Williams and Javier […]

27th July 2019 A jailed restaurateur has been banned from running companies for 12 years, after he was found to owe more than £1m in tax. Lam Chin Seong from Barnet in north London, was the sole director of Novari and Novari (at the O2). Incorporated in 2012, the two companies traded as the Water

26th July 2019   An upmarket high-end Indian restaurant based in the French Alps has opened in the capital.  Tsaretta Spice has opened in Church Street, Twickenham.  The head chef is Yousuf Mohammed, previously has worked at London restaurants such as Dishoom and Tamarind. Tsaretta Spice’s lunchtime and afternoon menu features “Indian tapas” such as pepper-fried squid

 25th July 2019 Cantonese roast meat concept Three Uncles is to open its first restaurant, in London’s Liverpool Street, in August.  Three Uncles will open at the site in Devonshire Row formerly occupied by Mexican restaurant chain Poncho 8. Three Uncles’ menu will include chopped-to-order siu mei alongside pak choi and steamed jasmine rice. As

24th July 2019   The UK food-to-go market is forecast to increase by more than a quarter (26.4%) to reach £23.4bn by 2024, up from £18.5bn in 2019, according to research from retail analysis company IGD.   The channel is to undergo double the growth of the wider UK food and grocery retail market (12.5%)

22nd July 2019   Karam, Jyotin and Sunaina Sethi, the family behind JKS Restaurants and London venues including as Gymkhana, Trishna and Brigadiers, is set to make a move into the pub sector.   The family has plans to take over The George in Great Portland Street for a gastro-pub concept with James Knappett, chef patron of Sethi-backed,

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

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

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