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6th November 2018   Japanese ramen restaurant Yamagoya is to open a second site. Founder Masatoshi Ogata debuted in the UK with a six-month residency at hot pot restaurant Shuang Shuang in 2016, before relocating to a permanent site in Waterloo.  He is returning to Soho – taking over Shuang Shuang’s downstairs restaurant in Shaftesbury […]

5th November 2018   Fast food chain Wok to Walk is “focusing its appetite on the UK” and will have a 13-strong estate by the end of this year 2018 with 100 around the world.   The company has signed contracts with groups including Starboard Dining and Gerry Offshore, while it has opened or is about

4th November 2018   Indian restaurant Dishoom’s first Manchester venue in the grade II-listed Manchester Hall, will open on  6th  December. It will have 231 covers spread between two dining rooms and a cocktail bar, The Permit Room.   As with its other restaurants, Dishoom will donate a school meal to a child in need

3rd November 2018   Wagamama founder Alan Yau has said selling the business was like “saying goodbye to a child” while his Chinese noodle bar concept Cha Cha Moon “hasn’t worked out”.   He said:  “Wagamama was born in 1992 when my Japanese lodger introduced me to ramen noodles. It was my lightbulb moment because

2nd November 2018     The Rajdani Indian restaurant in West Kingsdown, near Brands Hatch in Kent ,is to host a special charity lunch for the Chairman of Sevenoaks District Council from 1:00pm on Sunday 18th November.   Money raised will go to the Silas Pullen Fund. Silas was a boy of 10 when suddenly

17th October 2018       Charity Fund Raiser announced for National Curry Week   Certificate of Excellence Award from Cobra Good Curry Guide           Kuti’s Brasserie, the fine dining Indian restaurant which opened in the former gate house of the historic Royal Pier in Southampton this summer, has been shortlisted

16th October 2018           Asian Curry Awards Shortlist Announced BBC’s Babita Sharma to host glittering ceremony   The eagerly-awaited short-list for this year’s Asian Curry Awards has been announced.  The winners will be revealed at a glittering awards-ceremony, hosted by BBC broadcaster Babita Sharman, at Grosvenor House, in Mayfair on Sunday

12th October 2018       Thirty guests including Kingston Mayor Thay Thayala and his wife Lata, the Lady Mayor, journalists, food bloggers, local business leaders attending a special lunch at Saffron Summer Indian restaurant in Chessington on Thursday 11th October. Guests enjoyed a feast of authentic Indian haute cuisine, which has seen the restaurant ranked

11th October 2018   London-based Taiwanese restaurant Bao is to open its third site. The company will launch the venue  in Borough in 2019.   Bao Borough will “offer a different culinary experience to its sister sites”, reports Hot Dinners.   Bao launched its Soho restaurant in April 2015, offering Chinese snacks, steamed buns and

  10th October 2018   Turkish restaurant Misya Mezze & Grill, which has a restaurant in Stevenage High Street, has opened a second site in Hertfordshire, in Welwyn Garden City.   The family-run business has submitted plans to transform town centre pub the Parkway Bar, which has been vacant since the end of last year.