A well-known modern Indian restaurant in Birmingham that closed down during the pandemic is to be resurrected – for the second time in five years. Deolali in Moseley will be brought back to life this time following a £1.15 million cash injection from a local property developer. The restaurant originally opened in 2005 in a converted […]
Highly rated Nottingham Indian restaurant Masala Junction is to reopen on Monday, 31 October, less than three weeks after closing down – apparently for good. The surprise reprieve came about when the owner of another prominent Indian restaurant in the city, Amita Sawhney of MemSaab, came forward with a rescue offer. Naj Aziz, who founded the […]
Indian restaurant Mathura in the Old Westminster Fire Station reopens today (11 October) under a new name as Yaatra – less than a year after its launch. The venue in Greycoat Place served its final meals as Mathura on Saturday night. Mathura was billed as high-profile chef Atul Kochhar’s most ambitious venture yet when it […]
Asma Khan has relaunched her Darjeeling Express as a pop-up in a Kensington pub while she looks for a new permanent site, having closed last month after less than two years in Covent Garden. The restaurant opened this week in its temporary siding at the Pembroke, almost next door to the Troubadour in the Old […]
An Indian food truck in a small Cheshire town is to spawn three permanent restaurants after appearing on the Hairy Bikers’ TV Christmas Special. Sunitha Southern, owner of the Indian Goat in Bollington, near Macclesfield, is planning to open branches in Bollington, Manchester and Northeast England – and she’s set her sights on bagging a Michelin […]
A pair of Brighton-based chefs with origins on different continents will this month launch a small restaurant that explores the Columbian exchange of spices and flavours between the ‘Old World’ of Europe and Asia and the ‘New World’ of the Americas. Kanthi Kiran Thamma (left in photo) from Hyderabad in south India and Diego Ricaurte […]
Chef-owner Dev Biswal is to re-launch his Anglo-India Canterbury restaurant The Ambrette under a new identity as The Cook’s Tale, inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and focusing on locally sourced produce. Dev closed his original Ambrette, opposite Margate’s Turner Contemporary art gallery, earlier this year, saying he wanted to improve his work-life balance after […]
Former Barnsbury pub The Cuckoo reopens today as The Tamil Prince, showcasing the food of Tamil Nadu on the southern tip of India. The transformation has been led by Tamil Nadu-born chef Prince Durairaj and former Bao operations manager Glen Leeson, who first worked together at Roti King. They are also the team behind Tamila, […]
Qavali, a glamorous Indo-Persian restaurant, opened this month in Birmingham’s Brindley Place, inspired by the ecstatic Sufi singing tradition (also known as qawwali) whose adherents stretch from Turkey across Iran and Afghanistan into India and Pakistan. With a menu that takes “the best dishes from each cuisine” in this region, the 250-seat venue features a […]
Rohit Ghai, the most prominent of the Indian chefs to have established themselves in London in the past decade, marks his return to Mayfair this autumn with the launch of a new restaurant, Manthan, on the Maddox Street site vacated by Dhruv Mittal’s well-received Lucknow 49 when it closed down in August last year. It […]
