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3rd March 2019 Linda Lee, founder of cult Korean street food restaurants On The Bab, has announced that she is relocating On The Bab in W1 from Marylebone to Soho, and at the same time that she is soon to open On The Bab’s first overseas site, in Paris. On The Bab on Marylebone Lane […]

1st March 2019   Indo-Chinese concept Fatt Pundit is to launch in Berwick Street, in London’s Soho district.  The name is derived from a combination of common Chinese surname Fatt and Indian word “pundit”, which means scholar.   The 60-seater restaurant will feature exposed concrete walls, street signs and murals.   Indo-Chinese cuisine was created when

27th February 2019   Former Cinnamon Club md Rohit Chugh has opened Bambusa, a south east Asian cafe in London’s Fitzrovia, his fourth site in the capital.   Chugh, operates Indian street food restaurant Roti Chai in Marylebone as well as Indian restaurant Chai Ki and roadside-style bar and kitchen Toddy Shop, both in Canary Wharf.

26th February 2018 Scottish Women in the Food Industry is to provide a platform  for women working in Scotland’s food, drink and hospitality industry ahead International Women’s Day 2019 (8th March).  The first event, a panel discussion and networking afternoon will take place at The New Town Cookery School, Edinburgh on Monday 4th March from

23rd February 2019   Thai restaurant group Rosa’s Thai Cafe has opened in Liverpool, its first venue outside London.  The site at Albert Docks is the brand’s 16th.   Housed in a grade I-listed former warehouse, the split-level 88-cover restaurant over two floors,  retains original brickwork and huge arches alongside an open kitchen and a mezzanine

22nd February 2019   Yorkshire-based curry house brand Kashmiri Aroma is set to open in a former Bradford pub, its fifth site in Yorkshire.  Refurbishment work has already been erected around The Turf, at the junction of Keighley Road and Emm Lane, with the restaurant expected to open in April.   Kashmiri Aroma operates restaurants

20th February 2019   A total of 5,809 new takeaways have opened on UK high streets in just three-and-a-half years, a new report by the Food Foundation think-tank, which blames  cheap, unhealthy food for driving Britain’s spiralling obesity crisis.   One in every four food retailers is now a takeaway, according to data analysed for

16th February 2019   The restaurant operator behind the US street food brand The Halal Guys’ laucnh in the UK believes there is plenty of scope for growth beyond its initial 20-site agreement.   ITICO F+B partner Jan van Delden has revealed the plan is to grow small clusters of restaurants in cities across the UK, starting in

15th February 2019   Travis Kalanick has secretly ramped up his first big venture after being oust as head of Uber, headhunting his old company for staff as part of a multimillion-dollar plan to build a worldwide network of food delivery kitchens.   The billionaire co-founder of Uber is applying some of the same tactics

13th February 2019   YO! Sushi has launched a “DNA dining experience” in partnership with genetic testing company DNAFit.   YO! Dinner, YO! Way has been announced following a report by YO! Sushi and foresight consultancy The Future Laboratory, that bids to predict how food will look in ten years’ time and the trends and “tribes”