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4th January 2019   Vegan curry concept SpiceBox is opening a permanent site, in Walthamstow, east London, following a successful trial on the street food circuit with Kerb.  SpiceBox will open a curry house in Hoe Street on 29th January, featuring plant-based versions of  typical British curry house dishes. The menu’s Street Bites section will include […]

3rd January 2019   Danieli Holdings has opened a pan-Asian restaurant in Newcastle.  The company has launched The Muddler in Grey Street on the site previously occupied by Osaka restaurant.  The Muddler serves pan-Asian cuisine with a mix of dishes reflecting international flavours, such as chicken katsu urmaki – a take on sushi that features a

2nd January 2019   Japanese coffee shop Omotesando Koffee has opened launched its first site in Europe, in central London.  Eiichi Kunitomo-san launched the concept in Tokyo’s Omotesando Hills and has launched his brand to Rathbone Square in Fitzrovia.   Omotesando Koffee’s drinks include an iced cappuccino, which is covered with a layer of bubbly

21st December 2018   The team behind Indian restaurants Bombay Chow, Station 31 and Imperial Lounge is to open an Indian-Chinese fusion restaurant in Soho. The company expects to launch has a 1,700 square foot unit in Berwick Street in March, after a major refurbishment . The eateris will focus on cuisine developed more than a century ago

17th December 2018   Pakistani restaurant brand Tipu Sultan is to convert the former Fat Cat bar in Sherwood, Nottingham,  to create its third site.  The rapidly expanding group has restaurants in Birmingham and Leicester and is also opening venues in Manchester, London, Luton and Bradford.   Fat Cat has been empty for more than a

7th December 2018   Indian restaurant Dishoom has opened a venue in Manchester – its seventh UK site.  The company has opened the restaurant inside the grade II-listed Manchester Hall in Bridge Street.   It has 230 covers spread between two dining rooms and The Permit Room cocktail bar. There is a familiar aesthetic in

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