30th October 2023 Restaurant goers are tipping almost 40% less than a year ago as the cost-of-living crisis tightens its stranglehold on the economy. SumUp, contactless payment device maker, has reported the average value of tips given to cafés, restaurants, hairdressers and other small businesses that use its payment system has plunged from £4.65 in […]
25th October 2023 Indian street food concept My Delhi is planning nationwide expansion after opening the first site outside the North East. Owners Shah and Elahi Amin, Gaurav Dayal and Garry and Neha Goyal have launched the venue in a former Zizzi site in Leicester, which closed in 2020. It is the third branch for
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With adjacent Coupette French cocktail bar 3rd October 2023 Biryani Kebab Chai (BKC) in London, which won ‘Newcome of the Year’ at the Asian Catering Federation’s Asian Restaurant Awards in Manchester last month, has opened a second site, marking the start of a “major expansion plan”. The original site at Marble Arch focuses on Awadhi
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28th September 2023 Restaurateur Samyukta Nair is to take two of her concepts to Dubai. Launching this winter, Nair, who runs the LSL Capital hospitality group with her father Dinesh, will introduce its Michelin-starred pan-Indian restaurant Jamavar and its Chinese dining destination MiMi Mei Fair to Dubai’s dining scene. “Dubai is renowned as a worldwide
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26th September 2023 Indian restaurant group Dishoom MD Brian Trollop , has said they are “starting to feel the joy” in hospitality again, but that Christmas train strikes could “nail the sector”. “It’s been difficult trying to get on the front foot again, but it feels like the ground is starting to firm up under
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25th September 2023 Beer Republic in the Holiday Inn Bangkok is celebrating the Oktoberfest Bavarian festival for 29th September to 28th October. The menu will feature German classics including pork knuckle, Wiener Schnitzel and pretzels. www.HolidayInn.com/Bangkok
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13th September 2023 Spice Plus shortlisted for Just Eat Takeaway of the Year Spice Plus in Talbot Green, Pontyclun, South Wales, has been shortlisted for this year’s Asian Curry Awards, being held at the Grosvenor House on London’s Park Lane on 18th November. www.asiancurryawards.com. “We’re indebted to the dozens of our customers who took the time to go
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12th September 2023 Asian Curry Awards shortlist announced Public votes to determine Top 100 Curry Restaurants The biggest event in the Asian culinary calendar, the Asian Curry Awards – dubbed the “Curry Oscars” has revealed this year’s shortlist. The list of over 200 venues across the country will now be whittled down to the top hundred by
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20th August 2023 Sanjeev Sanghera, founder of Berlin fast casual kebab concept Döner Shack, says he has almost completed its repositioning that is “and it is “already “yielding great results”. The announcement comes six weeks after the Döner Shack completed the acquisition of three restaurants and several territories from its franchisees as it switched to
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19th August 2023 Putt Putt Noodle, the crazy golf concept from We Do Play, which also operates the Flip Out brand, is to opening a flagship site in central London. The business, which currently operates three Putt Putt Noodle sites has applied to open a site om Oxford Street, with the site set to undergo
