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4th December 2018   Ajmal Mushtaq   Ajmal Mushtaq, the owner of Britain biggest takeaway restaurant, Mushtaqs in Hamilton in Scotland, has warned that over a third of the country’s independent takeaway restaurants will disappear from our high street within five years.   Despite the dire warning, Mushtaq, a former City management consultant, remains remarkably […]

    Awanish Roy, Executive Head Chef, Saffron Summer Restaurant     Tell me about the restaurant and your food.   Saffron Summer is an Indian fine dining restaurant which caters to the leafy suburbs around Cobham, Oxshot, Esher in Surrey. We serve modern and innovative Indian food in a luxurious yet relaxed surrounding. We

28th November 2018     Monty’s Curry Centre in Stanford-Le-Hope in Essex, which was the only double winner at this year’s  Asian Curry Awards attributes it’s longevity to “treating its customers like family.”   The longest established curry house in the area, named after the current owner’s uncle Monty, reports customers who first visited the

22nd November 2018   Left to Right: BBC’s Bibita Sharma, Tom Brake MP, Cara Lui, Just East, Ajmal Mushtaq, Tommy Sandhu, BBC Asian Network     Restaurateur Ajmal Mushtaq, who  runs the eponymous Mushtaq’s Restaurant in Hamilton in Scotland – officially the largest takeaway operation in Britain – when featured on BBC2’s Best of British

20th November 2018                                    The award-winning Rajdani Indian restaurant in West Kingsdown near Brands Hatch in Kent for the has raised over £1500 for childhood brain cancer research.   The lunch on Sunday 18th November, organised by Cllr Patricia

20th November 2018       Triple award scoop for Southampton’s Kuti’s Brasserie         Kuti’s Brasserie, the fine dining Indian restaurant which opened in on the historic Royal Pier in Southampton this summer, has received three major accolades inside a week.   On Sunday 18th November restaurateur Kuti Miah and chef Ravi

19th November 2018     Around 1,000 VIP guests attended a glittering gala dinner at the Grosvenor House in London on Sunday 18th November, to honour the winners of the 8th Asian Curry Awards, organised by the Asian Catering Federation (ACF).   These are the nation’s only accolades dedicated to the entire spectrum of pan-Asian

14th November 2018   Plant-based concept from Michelin-trained chef     Bindu Patel, who spent spells in the kitchens of Michelin-starred and Gymkhana and Trishna restaurants and staged at Le Gavroche in London, is to open her own restaurant, Sanctua, in Leicester in January.   The 40-seater venue, is located on the site of the

8th November 2018   Japanese concept Robatayaki is to open in Soho in February with an 1,100 square foot site in Old Compton Street in Soho. The restaurant will offer izakaya-style dining with a bar and open plan kitchen towards the rear, where chefs will barbecue skewers on a robata grill. Small plates and tapas

7th November 2018   Two takeaway workers have been given prison sentences following the death of 15-year-old Megan Lee, who had suffered an allergic reaction to nuts. News of the sentencing comes amidst a heightened focus on allergen awareness within the industry.  Royal Spice owner Mohammed Abdul Kuddus (40), and manager Harun Rashid (38), were