14th June 2024 The Cook’s Tales Holidays, the travel arm of chef-patron Dev Biswal’s The Cook’s Tale restaurant in Canterbury, has announced a 9-day culinary tour of East Kent aimed at bringing overseas – and domestic visitors from other parts of the UK – to sample the best food and drink produce that East Kent has […]
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13th June 2024 JKS Restaurants is to launch of Ambassadors Clubhouse this summer in Mayfair. The group, founded by Jyotin, Karam and Sunaina Sethi, has revealed its new venue will “celebrate food, drink, music and culture” from the Punjab. Named after the Sethi’s maternal grandfather, a former Indian ambassador, the restaurant will take inspiration from
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11th June 2024 Bibi’s, the London café group founded by Turkish-born chef Bilur Yapici, is to open a 5th site in the capital. The business, which was founded in 2019, is to open a flagship site in the City, in Devonshire Square. Bibi’s – which has sites in Soho, Covent Garden, Golden Square and Angel
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10th June 2024 Shoryu Ramen Restaurant Group, owned by Toridoll, will open its 12th site this summer, in London’s Westfield Stratford City, in the World Food Court in July. Located at 211 The Balcony, the site will feature classic ramen offerings, including the Shoryu Ramen Ganso tonkotsu, Kotteri Hakata tonkotsu and piri piri tonkotsu, alongside
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9th June 2024 Netherlands-based Korean fried chicken concept Sojubar is looking to expand in the UK using a franchise model. Sojubar launched in Rotterdam in 2021, with a beer and soju (a Korean distilled alcoholic drink traditionally made from rice) offering with fried chicken and other Korean dishes. It has four sites in the Netherlands and
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10th June 2024 Street food cafe franchise Chaiiwala has secured a site for its second drive-thru location. The brand launched the UK’s first Indian drive-thru, on Manchester Road in Bolton. The petrol station forecourt site was launched in partnership with EG Group, which has more than 1,000 sites in the UK and Ireland. “Following the
8th June 2024 Indian restaurant brand Delhi House Café is to open its second UK site later this year, with an opening in Liverpool. The café-restaurant concept, which debuted in Manchester in 2020, will occupy a 3,00 square-foot site in Liverpool’s Royal Albert Dock. Delhi House Café, which is led by the Lamba family, made
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6th June 2024 Sacha Lord, the Night Time Economy Adviser for Greater Manchester, has called on an incoming government to appoint a minister for hospitality. Speaking ahead of the publication of party manifestos this week, Lord believes that many of the issues the sector has faced in recent years would have been prevented had a
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4th June 2024 The Asian Catering Federation [ACF] has criticised restaurant takeaway delivery platforms for undermining the hospitality sector, and in turn High Street trade in general, ahead of a presentation to leading chefs and restaurants at the House of Lords. ACF committee member, Binod Baral, a Goodwill Ambassador for the Ghurka Centre in London,
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28th May 2024 Many of the country’s leading chefs have competed in a live cook for one of the hospitality industry’s most prestigious accolades, the Asian Oriental & Chef Awards. The contest was held in the Pillars Restaurant at the University of West London on 19th May – the former alma mater of Home Secretary James Cleverly.
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