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 The 108-cover Portugese-fusion restaurant which opened in 2014, has been replaced by Greenport, a burger, pizza and roast chicken restaurant.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
20th January 2016 The owner of The Purple Olive, Atik Sheik, who has a restaurant in Ellesmere Port and a takeaway in Prescot, has opened a third site on Merseyside, this time in the Hunts Cross suburb of Liverpool The restaurant in Speke Road claims to offer authentic Indian cuisine. “We’ve had the restaurant
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19th January 2017 The Cinnamon Collection, part of by Boparan Restaurants, has announced “Cinnamon Starts”, a chef de partie training programme. Aimed at novice chefs who have completed an NVQ Level 2 or equivalent, the programme will train young chefs for jobs across all four of the group’s London restaurants – The Cinnamon Club,
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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
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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