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20th May 2018   Lebanese restaurant operator Meejana is to open a third site, this time in Windsor.  The company has acquired a site near the castle gates formerly home to Indian restaurant Dhinchak, operated by Sai Charan Hospitality.  Meejana operates restaurants in Kensington and Weybridge in Surrey   Meejana director Edward Terry said: “Eleven years […]

18th May 2018   Restaurant investor Imbiba is featuring in a new BBC Two series,  Million Pound Menu. The first episode of the six-part series aired on 17th  May.  The show is hosted by Fred Siriex, general manager of the Galvin At Windows restaurant at London Hilton Park Lane, who is known for his appearances

17th May 2018 Chef Atul Kuchhar UK-based double Michelin star-winning Indian TV chef Atul Kuchhar, is to give live cooking demos at the year’s Pub in the Park festivals organised by Tom Kerridge. Pub in the Park will visit Marlow, Bath, Tunbridge Wells and Knutsford for four weekends over the summer, to celebrate the  best

8th May 2018 The owners of an award-winning Brighton restaurant are to open a second premises as part of a crowdfunded expansion plan. Husbandand wife team Alun and Dawn Sperring hope to repeat their success with the Chilli Pickle, in Jubilee Street, Brighton, at a new location in Guildford in July. The Sperrings opened the

1st May 2018   JKS Restaurants is to launch Indian barbecue restaurant and drinking tavern concept Brigadiers at Bloomberg Arcade in the City of London on 6th June. Themed as an  Indian army mess bars, Brigadiers will have 140 covers and 34 on a terrace. Live sports will be shown in select rooms, while pool

27th April 2018 TV chef Aktar Islam is to open two restaurants in Birmingham. The  Opheem, championing “progressive Indian cuisine”, opens in June, in Summer Row on the site of the former Mechu bar. Aktar, who made his name with his creative, fine dining take on Indian cuisine during Gordon Ramsay’s The F Word in

23rd April 2018   Peter Joseph, the chef behind the world’s first Michelin-starred Indian restaurant, is to launch a venue in Chelsea.  Joseph, who was until recently head chef of Mayfair’s Tamarind, which won its star in 2001, will open Kahani opposite Cadogan Hall in the summer.   The restaurant will take inspiration from the

20th April 2018     Viiking Ventures UK, the distributor Goa Premium Beer, both owned by Indian playboy Sachiin Joshi, has entered voluntary liquidation with debts of more than £1 million.   Former Vikking Ventures employees, whose salaries were regularly paid late, resigned en masse after Christmas when repeated promises were unfulfilled. Staff claim to

17th April 2018   Ramadan is the “biggest untapped opportunity in foodservice” with millions of pounds of extra revenue available during the festival, according to Salih Sheikh, head of marketing at BB Foodservice, the delivered foodservice arm of Bestway Wholesale.   Sheikh said the industry was “behind when it came to commercialising Ramadan” and that

17th April 2018   Rainer Becker, co-founder of Zuma restaurant group, has revealed  details of a first UK site for his Japanese robatayaki concept Inko Nito, which will open in Soho next month. The 90-cover site, will open in Broadwick Street following the concept’s launch in Los Angeles in December. Group executive chef Hamish Brown’s