26th February 2017 With the approach of the Holi season, opportunities to pelt each other with coloured paints in the name of Hinduism and the changing seasons are being announced. Cinnamon Kitchen near Liverpool Street is to erect its Holi party pod from Tuesday 7th until Saturday 18 March (Holi itself is 13 March), […]
23rd February 2017 Tamarind Collection, which owns the Michelin-starred Tamarind restaurant in Mayfair, is open ‘Tamarind Collection’ in Soho. Spread over two floors, the 100-cover restaurant in Wardour Street, will feature a private dining room for up to 20 guests and an underground late-night cocktail bar. The interiors will be designed by Russell Sage Studios and
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22nd February 2017 Figures released in The Big 30 Wholesalers report in The Grocer magazine, show that Booker has a turnover of £4.99bn, ahead of Palmer & Harvey (£4.44bn), Brakes (£3.09bn), Bidvest Foodservice (£2.52bn) and Bestway (£2.17bn). Booker is also, by a distance, the biggest wholesaler in terms of depots (197), staff employed (13,144) and
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20th February 2017 The Chairman of the Asian Catering Federation (ACF) Yawar Khan, has made the gloomy prediction that half of the nation’s curry houses will disappear from the High Street inside a decade. Issues facing curry restaurant owners – such as chef shortages and rising costs – have been widely reported,
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From the near dereliction of the 1980s to the boom years of the new millennium when around 50 restaurants were in operation, recent years have seen curry houses closing and an influx of restaurants offering other cuisines. Former London mayor Ken Livingstone ran a ‘Totally Brick Lane’campaign to promote tourism called , along with
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16th February 2017 JKS Restaurants, the family firm behind Michelin-starred Gymkhana and Trishna, is to open a third Motu Indian Kitchen, this time in London’s Canary Wharf. The new site follows the first two kitchens which opened in Battersea and Camberwell last year. It will service homes and offices in the
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15th February 2017 A team of students from University College Birmingham has won the 2017 Zest Quest Asia competition. The results were announced at an awards ceremony on 13th February at the Hilton London Heathrow. Entrants were required to prepare and present classical and contemporary Asian cookery during a live cook-off at Mr
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15th February 2016 The founder of a halal dining app, which raised more than £200,000 from a Crowdcube pitch last year, is to launch another funding round at the end of 2017. Siddika Jaffer said she developed the idea for The Halal Dining Club whilst tudying for a Masters degree in Singapore. She found
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14th February 2017 The Indian-style supper club concept Darjeeling Express, from self-taught cook Asma Khan, is to open a permanent site in Carnaby Street’s Kingly Court this spring. Located on the second floor of Kingly Court, alongside Dirty Bones and Le Bab, Darjeeling Express is the brain child of self-taught cook Asma Khan,
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14th February 2017 The southern Indian state of Karnataka is aiming to change its people’s farming and eating habits, with the re introduction of a group of cereals that was once a staple in the state: millet. Until about 40 years ago, like most of India, the people of Karnataka regularly ate a variety of
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