Veeraswamy, Britain’s oldest Indian restaurant, celebrated its centenary on Monday at a dinner that opened with a Mulligatawny soup that featured on its first menu, served by waiting staff in newly tailored uniforms copied from the 1926 originals (pictured). The future of the Regent Street institution remains in doubt following landlord the Crown Estate’s decision […]
Britain’s oldest Indian restaurant, Veeraswamy, is facing closure on the eve of its centenary with its landlord, the Crown Estate, declining to renew the lease on its premises, just off Piccadilly Circus in Regent Street. The Crown Estate says it needs the first-floor restaurant’s street-level entrance so it can renovate the offices above in the […]
