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18th August 2018   Thai Leisure Group has closed Thaikhun in Nottingham. The restaurant, which opened at the end of 2015, is the fifth venue to shut in the Clocktower dining area of the Intu Victoria shopping centre. It follows the closure of The Restaurant Group brands Joe’s Kitchen and Coast to Coast along with […]

16th August 2018   Manchester’s EatsMeatsWest will launch a new casual dining Chinese concept in Altrincham, this autumn.   WowYauChow will offer a menu of British Chinese favourites and Chinese street food, combining this with craft beer and cocktails. EatsMeatsWest currently runs two restaurants with its meat-themed MeatShack concept based in Rochdale and Stockport.  

14th August 2018     Lonely Planet has revealed the world’s best food experiences in its new book, Ultimate Eatlist. In the follow-up to Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Travelist, Ultimate Eatlist travelled the world to research the “definitive foodie bucket-list” of the world’s top 500 food experiences. Each entry details an experience, the culture behind it,

11th August 2018     The Greenwich Curry Club has launched the Spice Card – a discount card for lovers of spicy food in South East London. For just £15 a year local spice fans can enjoy a 20% discount on food for two people (often more) at Indian, Vietnamese, Chinese and Thai restaurants and

10th August 2018   Liverpool’, health-focused Chinese restaurant Green Kitchen has launched a £200,000 fund-raise on crowdfunding platform Crowdcube to fund expansion plans. The company, founded by Liang Zhang and Stewart Parker, is offering 11.61% equity in return for the investment.   Green Kitchen began as a food delivery service in 2015 before opening its

9th July 2018   Leicester-based western Chinese restaurant Karamay has launched a rotary hotpot concept for its second site in the city. Karamay Hotpot has opened in London Road and claims to be the first rotary hotpot restaurant in the UK.   The all-you-can-eat concept sees diners help themselves to food from a conveyor belt

9th July 2018     Atul Kochhar ‘no longer employed’ by Mayfair’s Benares Atul Kochhar is no longer employed by Benares’, according to a  statement from the one-starred Indian restaurant in Mayfair.   The former chef-patron, who was fired by Dubai’s JW Marriott Marquis Hotel in June after he sent a series of allegedly anti-Islamic

8th August 2018   The Royal China Club in London has reopened. During its four-month renovation by Stiff and Trevillion, the restaurant has doubled in size to 180 covers, having acquired the former building society site on the corner  of Baker Street and Blandford Street. The restaurant has also added five elegant private rooms suitable

6th August 2018   The owner of a curry restaurant in Derby has been banned from running companies for five years after he falsely advertised a five-star food hygiene rating in a local magazine.  Rushan Ahmed, 31, of Walsall was the sole director of Four Brothers (Derby) and ran Moza Derby, an Indian restaurant on

30th July 2018   The India Club in London that dates back to the Indian independence movement in the 1930s and 40s was recently saved from closure. Westminster City Council have refused to give permission to the Marston Properties for a luxury hotel on the Strand site.   The decision to save the Club was