9th October 2018 JKS Restaurants appoints executive chef: JKS Restaurants, the London restaurant group founded by Jyotin, Karam and Sunaina Sethi, has appointed Jitin Joshi as executive chef of Michelin-starred Mayfair eatery Gymkhana. After training in India, Joshi moved to London in 2001 and worked under Eric Chavot before becoming head pastry chef […]
8th October 2018 Property management company, Daniel Johns Group, has opened Rock Spice, a high-end fusion food restaurant opening in Manchester. The restaurant will focus on Asian fusion dining, with chefs taking inspiration from traditional Pakistani, Indian and Bangladeshi cuisines combined with Western influences, while also infusing traditional rock spice into each dish
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5th October 2018 Jyoti Patel, founder of Red Rickshaw, the UK’s largest online Asian grocer, has launched a recipe box service. Feast Box recipe kits contain authentic ingredients that can be combined to create Asian and Middle Eastern dishes. Recipes include curries from India, Thailand and Sri Lanka and are suitable for
4th October 2018 Edinburgh has the highest restaurant density in the UK in terms of the number of people per restaurant, according to research from Local Data Company (LDC). New data showed the Scottish capital has just 1,771 people per restaurant within the city centre. Restaurants make up 12% of all retail and leisure sites
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3rd October 2018 Soho institution the Red Fort closes after 35-years Tony Blair’s once favourite Indian restaurant, The Redfort on Dean Street in London has closed suddenly, with reports that terms of the lease had been broken. A notice on the website of the Indian restaurant, which opened in 1983, says it is
2nd October 2018 Two high profile Indian restaurants in London have lost their Michelin stars, after changes in personnel. Tamarind in Mayfair, the first Indian restaurant in London to win a Michelin star in 2001, is one of 15 restaurants to lose its star, following the departure of head chef Peter Joseph, who
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1st October 2018 Kuti’s Brasserie opens in Southampton’s historic Royal Pier Kuti’s Brasserie, a fine dining Indian restaurant has launched in the former gate house of the historic Royal Pier in Southampton. Styled ‘Empress of India’ after 1876. Queen Victoria opened the Royal Pier in 1833. After being introduced to Indian
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26th September 2018 Ping Pan-Asian, a new eatery and delicatessen from BBC MasterChef 2014 winner Ping Coombes and global Malaysian food brand PappaRich, has opened in Selfridges in London and Manchester. Typical dishes include: Nasi lemak, Hainanese chicken rice, duck spring rolls, and beef siu mai, chicken satay, prawn and chives dumplings,
25th September 2018. The home to Mayfair’s Park Chinois dim sum restaurant sold been sold for more than £42m. The two AA rosette, 242- cover venue on Dover Street, opened by Alan Yau in 2015, hose been acquired by an anonymous Turkish family from GGH Holdings. The sale of the freehold includes the residential homes
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24th September 2018 Indian restaurant group Dishoom has seen profits drop in the year to 31st December 2017, despite an increase in revenues by more than £8m, from £27.8m to £35.6m Adjusted pre tax earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation fell from £2.98m to £2.25, which the directors’ report described as a
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