4th February 2017 India’s biggest food festival operators, Grub Fest, has launched an Indian tapas and cocktail concept in London. The people behind Mumbai’s The Grub Fest, the biggest food festival in India, has launched an Indian tapas and cocktail concept in Fitzrovia. Lokhandwala has opened in Charlotte Street serving Indian small plates, mixing traditional […]
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3rd February 2017 Healthy East Asian restaurant group, Nusa Kitchen is to open two new restaurants in London. A 15-cover restaurant in Moorgate, London, will open on 20th February, offering soups, healthy salads and rice boxes alongside new vegetarian and vegan dishes. On 13th March, Nusa Kitchen will then launch a 40-cover
Goa’s Ben Parmar 3rd February 2017 Viiking Ventures secures Booker and Makro distribution for Indian craft beer Ben Parmar appointed as Managing Director Hoshang Noria joins as Channel Controller Within days of appointing Ben Parmar, the former Cobra Channel Controller, as MD of Goa Premium Beer importer Viiking Ventures UK, the
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1st February 2017 Contract caterer Elior UK has joined forces with TV chef and author The Urban Rajah to create a new Indian street food concept. The concept has been designed to help Elior sites grow their sales by exploiting the growing trend for contemporary Indian cuisine. One of the new dishes
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1st February 2017 Three casual dining experts are to collaborate over a “fresh Indian” pop-up restaurant in London with the charity Crisis. At 6pm from Wednesday to Friday and from midday on Saturdays for the next three weeks, the Crisis Cafe in Commercial Street, Shoreditch, is temporarily transformed into a “colourful and cosy” restaurant serving
31st January 2017 Coca-Cola is set to invest $200 million in two new bottling plants in Pakistan, according to its group director of public affairs in the country. Atilla Yerlikaya told government representatives that the company wanted to set up new factories in the ‘special economic zones’ in Faisalabad and the capital Islamabad.
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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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28th January 2017 Birmingham-based Indian Brewery has opened its first bar, at Queensway Arches in the city’s Jewellery Quarter. The brewer, based in Great Barr which makes a small range of craft beers, has converted Arch 16 in Livery Street, which was previously occupied by coffee shop Brewsmiths. The site serves breakfast until midday,
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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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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
