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6th October 2016   The Cinnamon Collection, acquired by Boparan Restaurants earlier this year, has announced its  Cinnamon Bazaar concept.  The Cinnamon Collection has  plans to roll-out the Cinnamon Kitchen and Cinnamon Bazaar brands in London and the south east. Cinnamon Bazaar will offer an “accessible and relaxed all-day concept, serving modern Indian food with […]

5th October 2016     Chozen Noodle, the fast casual noodle bar brand founded by Matthew Kirby and John Dodds, is to open a prototype unit in Oxford this month, its 25th site. The store in George Street will feature a made-to-order sushi station and some new hot food offerings.   There is also to

  3rd October 2016   Veeraswamy has ended a 90-year wait and finally received a coveted Michelin Star. The UK’s oldest Indian restaurant, it was opened in 1926 by Edward Palmer, a retired Indian Army officer and the great-grandson of an English general and an Indian princess. In its early years, Veeraswamy served Anglo-Indian cuisine,

1st October 2016   Bengali pop-up restaurant Calcutta Street has opened its first permanent site, in Fitzrovia, London. Shrimoyee Chakraborty has launched the venue in Tottenham Street. The ground floor is a no-reservations restaurant with a central bar.  Downstairs is a bookable dining room, which seats 20 people around communal tables. The menu includes Doi

30th September 2016     Thai Leisure Group brand Thaikhun has signed a deal to open a restaurants at WestQuay Watermark – Hammerson’s £85m 17,000 square metre dining and leisure development in Southampton.   Thaikhun will also be making its first move into the city with a 290 square metre restaurant on the upper promenade.

    28th September 2016     A new Turkish and Mediterranean restaurant concept, Ottoman Grill, has opened in Exeter city centre  .The 60-cover restaurant loccupies the former site of Dinky’s Play Café, which closed in June.  The venue in Guinea Street is the brainchild of the Demir family.  Huseyin Demir, a chef with 30

27th September 2016 Rohit Ghai, the former executive chef of JKS Restaurants, is to head up a new fine dining Indian restaurant in Mayfair in the space once occupied by short-lived Le Chabanais.   Jamavar London will open in Mount Street in mid-November. It will be the sixth Jamavar restaurant and the first outside India.

26th September 2016     A new Korean barbecue restaurant concept, Gooi Nara, is open in Reading. The new venue on Whitley Street at a site formerly occupied by Miah’s Saffron restaurant – between Peri Peri Chicken and Just Pizza.   Dishes will include soy-glazed steaks and marinated ribs.   The restaurant is currently is

25th September 2016   Poor Hygiene Proceedures at One in Seven Takeaways  One in 13 restaurants –  and one in seven takeaways in the UK have failed food hygiene inspections because they are dirty or have poor procedures and record keeping.  Food hygiene reports for more than 460,000 businesses found almost 30,000, 6.4%, had failed

20th September 2016   Yosma, a Turkish meyhane and mangl concept serving Istanbul styled street food, has opened in Marylebone. The 150-cover venue is led by restaurateurs Levent Buyukugur and Sanjay Nandi, founders of The Good Food Society, which operates Ristorante Frescobaldi London in Mayfair with Italy’s oldest wine dynasty, the Frescobaldis.   The menu