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21st March 2017     BrewDog is looking for a brewery site in Asia after increasing sales by 61% to £71.9mfor 2016. James Watt, who co-founded the Ellon-based business with Martin Dickie, said that Asia was next on the agenda for Brewdog, which is building a $30m brewery in Columbus, Ohio.   “China is on course […]

20th March 2017   Viiking Ventures UK, the exclusive importer of Goa Indian Craft Beer, is to sponsor Action Against Hunger’s invitation-only Love Food Give Food event at Cinnamon Kitchen on Monday 27th March.     The networking event, being hosted in the Anise Bar at the Devonshire Square restaurant in the City of London,

  18th March 2107   Indian restaurant concept Ronaq has opened a new venue in Edinburgh’s New Waverley development. Ronaq, which first launched in Edinburgh three years ago, is expanding its chain of restaurants into a corner site location linking Cranston Street with East Market Street, close to the Royal Mile.   The new venue includes

17th March 2017       Modha Ales have introduced True Maharaja, a  handcrafted beer inspired by classic eastern flavours and made using entirely natural ingredients, including real cardamom pods.   It is described as ” delicately balanced, with a warm amber colour and white foamy head . . . enhanced by cardamom’s spiced peppery notes which bring to the

16th March 2017   Michelin-starred Indian restaurant Gymkhana has reported a boost in turnover and pre-tax profit. The Mayfair restaurant, which is owned by the Sethi family, saw turnover increase to £4,090,00o December 2015, compared with £3,300,000 the previous year. Pre-tax profit was up to £726,000 from £534,000 in 2014.   The Sethi family also operates Michelin-starred

15th March 2017     Bradford-based restaurant Mughals has opened a second site in the city. Mughals opened its 150-cover restaurant and sweets centre in Leeds Road in 1988, which now employs 25 people.  The new 40-cover venue opens Horton Road at lunchtime on Friday 17th March.   Owner Mohammad Bilal said: “We have had a lot

14th  March 2017   Wagamama is partnering  has with Meantime Brewing  to launch two Asian-inspired craft pale ales.   The beers – Kikku and Kansho – are exclusive to Wagamama and have been brewed with Asian-inspired flavours to enhance and complement key ingredients used in the restaurant chain’s dishes.   The pale ales have been

13th March 2017   Oddbox has launched London’s first wonky veg box scheme, in order to fight food waste.   The social enterprise scheme  delivers a weekly box directly to South London’s homes and Central London’s businesses. Oddbox are able to buy the produce at a fair discounted price and pass on the discount to their

9th March 2017     The 73-bedroom Clumber Park Hotel & Spa in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, has been acquired by Indian-based MGM Muthu Hotels, for c£7m.   Adjoining the National Trust’s 3,800-acre Clumber Park and near to Sherwood Forest, the hotel  becomes the third UK hotel for MGM Muthu, joining the 88-bedroom Belstead Brook hotel in Ipswich,

7th March 2017   Scientists from the University of Birmingham are calling on innovative British cooling businesses to join them in India as part of a research initiative to help double farmers’ incomes, whilst reducing their impact on the environment.   The Birmingham Energy Institute, supported by the UK’s Science and Innovation team, Department for