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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 […]

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

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

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,

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

13th February 2017 New-Delhi based Azure Hospitality, is to invest £4m opening 15 new restaurants, mainly in Indian metros and in the UK over the next 12-15 months. The Goldman Sachs-backed company, which has 15 operational Mamagoto restaurants across the major metros including Bengaluru, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata, plans to open four new ones.

12th Feburary 2017     A popular curry and comedy night will return to Birmingham’s Botanical Gardens on 31st March.  Following the sold-out whisky feast in September, a ‘Comedy Rum-Ball’ will see Itihaas’s head chef Pavneet Sangwan and comedian and chef Hardeep Singh Kohli rejoin forces, this time with Ampersand’s head chef Phil Bradley and

10th February 2017     An Indian restaurant in Cottingham, near Hull,  has closed its doors just months after opening.   A repossession notice has been put up on the door of Moghuls Spice Lounge Indian restaurant, in Hallgate.  The notice reads: “Peaceable repossession of the … premises was secured as a result of your

9th February 2016   Zameer Choudrey       The Bestway Group has announced its financial results to the year ended 30th June 2016.  Group turnover is up by 9% to £3.3b – although its wholesale business shrank by 1.1% to £2.2b. The company’s business also includes banking and pharmaceutical interests.   Group chief executive

  8th February 2017   Twice decorated Michelin-starred Chef Atul Kochhar has annnounced his 2017 Chef Season where he welcomes fellow chefs into the kitchens of Sindhu and Indian Essence.   Each month diners will experience a collaborative six-course Tasting Menu created by Atul and celebrated names in the culinary world.   Each chef will present