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New Upmarket Mayfair Indian

29th January 2017   The family behind Jamavar, the new upmarket Indian in Mayfair, has taken the lease on Claude Bosi’s former restaurant Hibiscus in Maddox and plans to open an as-yet unnamed “casual Indian concept” there later in the year.   Dinesh Nair, co-chairman  of India’s uber-luxurious Leela Palace group and his daughter Samyuktaare to launch

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Tesco shops at Booker

27th January 2017   Tesco, the country’s biggest supermarket, has announced a £3.7bn deal to merge with Booker Group, the UK’s biggest food wholesaler. Tesco is to buy the FTSE 250 wholesale, which has more than half a million customers, to “create the UK’s leading food business”.   The addition of Booker, which owns the Londis,

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Assado Closes

23rd January 2017   Cyrus Todiwala’s Assado restaurant at the Hampton by Hilton London Waterloo hotel has closed.   The 108-cover Portugese-fusion restaurant which opened in 2014,  has been replaced by Greenport, a burger, pizza and roast chicken restaurant.   Todiwala blamed for the closure on a lack of demand from the hotel’s US guests who

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Chai in the Sky

18th January 2017     Rickshaw Travel has announced a new three day, two night bite sized trip to Munnar, India, a small town nestled in India’s emerald tea plantations, in the Western Ghats mountain range in India’s Kerala state.   Visitors can enjoy the fresh mountain air, a trip to the famous Munnar tea

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£50m Indian Hotel for London

13th January 2017   The Lalit London, the first overseas property from 11-strong luxury hotel portfolio of Lalit Suri Hospitality Group is opening a £50 million venue in Tooley Street, near Tower Bridge.   The Grade II listed property was designed by Edward Mountford (who also designed the Old Bailey) has also housed St Olave’s Grammar School

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