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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

 19th September 2016                                                                     Tarana Restaurant in Kent, which opened earlier this year, has been nominated for one of Produced in Kent’s

19th September 2016     The curry industry in the UK is worth £4bn, according to World Curry Festival founder Zulfi Karim. He says that £1bn could be attributed to the north of England with its hub – Bradford – worth £500m to the city’s economy.   “The ethnic food sector in the north of

17th September 2016           Adam Webb, the former Giggling Squid marketing manager, has announced the opening of ThaiWorks takeaway restaurant in Bournemouth. It will occupy the Seamoor Road site vacated by Tasty Moment Chinese takeaway in the Westbourne area of the seaside town, close to the affluent Sandbanks Peninsula.   ThaiWorks

17th September 2016   The Asian Catering Federation (ACF) which represents 20,000 ethnic restaurants in the UK, has urged its London members to embrace the opportunity all night tubes.   London Mayor Sadiq Khan introduced the through-the-night Underground service on 16th August.   With reports of over 50,000 Londoners a night taking advantage of the

16th September 2016   Wholesaler Booker Group has reported group sales, including Budgens and Londis, up by 15.2% in the 12 weeks to 9 September 2016, with non-tobacco sales up 15.5%. Like-for-like non-tobacco sales, excluding Budgens and Londis, grew by 0.9%.   In a statement, the company said: “ Our balance sheet remains strong with

15th September 2016   Michelin-starred chef Atul Kochhar has introduced a street food-style menu at his Benares Anglo-Indian fusion restaurant in Mayfair.   Each of the five new dishes on the menu has been created by a different  chef from Benares’s kitchen and is inspired by the street food speciality of their home town.  Each