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17th April 2019   Just Eat has acquired Practi, a software firm providing independent restaurants and small chains with tablet-based point-of-sale (PoS) and restaurant management systems.   The acquisition cost an initial £6.7m with further payments dependent on hitting commercial milestones. Just Eat will provide its restaurant partners with point-of-sale, cash and card payment-handling, inventory […]

16th April 2019   London-based pop-up vegan Chinese restaurant Mao Chow has opened a permanent site.   Having staged a residency at Dalston cocktail bar Pamela, Mao Chow has moved into a permanent home in Mare Street, Hackney. The venue has just 12 seats for guests to sit at the noodle bar.   The menu

15th April 2019   Royal China will be giving this year’s London Marathon runners a chance to refuel  with a free dim sum dish on Sunday 28th April 2019.   After the strenuous 26 mile trek across London competitors are entitled to one free dish from any dim sum menu when dining in the Baker

12th April 2019         Saffron Summer, the award-winning Indian fine dining restaurant in Chessington in Surrey, is offering free meals to children for two weeks around the Easter holidays.   All children aged 10 and under eat free when accompanied by a minimum of one paying adult.  School kids choose a main

8th April 2019   Taiwanese restaurant Bao is to open a third London site.   The new venue will open in Borough Market in May and differ from its other sites in Soho and Fitzrovia by featuring a karaoke room and grab-and-go hatch. The karaoke room will be below the new restaurant and offer cocktail pitchers and

7th April 2019   Ferdinand Montoya’s Filipino supper club,   Sarap,  has been awarded a 6-month residency at Brixton Village after winning the Brixton Kitchen competition and mentorship programme.   Brixton Kitchen was established to nurture homegrown talent and offer entrepreneurs and novices a chance to see their ideas come to fruition. Both winners will also

6th April 2019   New wave Indian small plates concept Kricket has announced a spring menu, with its first vegan dish. The company celebrates seasonal British ingredients with the aroma and spices of India. Taking centre stage across all three sites is British free-range duck with a range of dishes available at its Brixton, Soho and

5th April 2019   Fusion Asian fusion chain, Wok to Walk, is to open in Coventry – its 14th site.  in total. The company has applied for planning permission to convert a former Blue Arrow recruitment agency in Cross Cheaping, into a restaurant.   The planning statement says, “Wok to Walk aims to give customers

5th April 2019   Rosa’s Thai Cafe founders Alex and Saiphin Moore have invested in Liverpool-based, Middle Eastern-inspired restaurant and cocktail bar concept Maray Restaurant Group with a view to further expansion.   Maray was founded by James Bates, Dominic Jones and Thomas White in 2014 and operates sites in Bold Street in Liverpool city

4th April 2019   An Essex eatery is stressing the importance of healthy eating as World Health Day approaches (7th April) run by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Tandoor at the Chambers restaurant offers a “genuine taste of North India” in the east London suburb of Buckhurst Hill, Essex in a “sophisticated yet relaxed atmosphere.”