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- Cafe Spice Namasté finds a new home in the Docklands
Last year we reported on the story of Cafe Spice Namasté which 'celebrated' its 25th anniversary by having to move from its home on Prescot Street in Spitalfields.
Well, the good news is that Cyrus and Pervin Todiwala have now found a new home for their restaurant. They've stuck
... - Gunpowder and their Kashmiri lamb chops head for Soho
Following their two restaurants (Spitalfields and Tower Bridge) and a strong lockdown/delivery game with Empire Biryani and more, Gunpowder are getting ready to open their next Indian restaurant - this time in Soho. They're coming to Greek Street (where the Pizza Express used to
... - Mowgli are bringing their Indian street food to London
They've already opened across the country, after starting in Liverpool, and now Mowgli is getting ready to open in London.
Billed as "Indian street food", Mowgli has taken over what used to be the Cote brasserie on Charlotte Street. It's run by former barrister Nisha Katona.
There's a huge selection of dishes on offer, including:
- Gunpowder Chicken - Mowgli’s
- Ritu Seasons of India sees ex-Benares chef take on St John's Wood
Former Benares head chef Navin Prasad is in charge of the food at this new St John's Wood restaurant showcasing the seasonal cooking of India.
- Bibi is the new Indian restaurant from the team behind Gymkhana, Hoppers and more
The team behind some of London's greatest Indian restaurants is behind Bibi, which puts its main development chef in charge of the kitchen.
- Test Driving Veeraswamy at Home - Michelin-starred Indian to your door
London's oldest surviving Indian restaurant, the Michelin-starred Veeraswamy, adapts very well to a delivery model as we discover from their At Home menu.
- London restaurant recipes - Kricket's Egg Bhurji With Berkswell & Shallots
If you're after a book that looks so good you want to lick the pages, then Kricket - an Indian-inspired cookbook is the one for you
- Meal Kit Test Drive round-up - MEATliquor, Empire Biryani, Burger & Lobster
One of the very few good things to come out of the lockdowns have been some excellent DIY kits from some of London's best restaurants. We tried out some of the latest...
- Empire Biryani is Gunpowder's new delivery service
On a grey day in February in Lockdown what better news could we bring you than the arrival of a new home delivery biryani service? Better still, it comes from the founders Harneet Baweja and Devina Seth, who gave us Indian restaurant Gunpowder.
This new delivery restaurant centres around Dum Biryani with a range of other dishes from Northern India. Made fresh every day, the signature biryani
... - Indian restaurant Heritage Dulwich gets ready to open for dine-in
Coming from an ex-Tamarind chef, Heritage aims to cook "nostalgic family-taught dishes and unusual foods from lesser-known Indian regions and communities".
- Rebublic comes to Chiswick, headed up by an ex-Kricket head chef
Republic is a brand new restaurant that fell under our radar until now - but was recently highlighted in a BBC news story.
The restaurant comes from two Kricket alumni, chef Kuldeep Mattegunta and Mustaq Tappewale. The two have spent a decade in the restaurant industry
... - Michelin-starred Veeraswamy is the latest London restaurant to switch to delivery
As we highlighted in the first part of the 2020 Hot Dinners Awards, restaurants pivoting to delivery has been a big thing in the past year. Now, with the advent of Tier 3 we have yet another new entry to the scene.
Welcome, then to Veeraswamy - the UK's oldest surviving Indian
... - Test Driving Darjeeling Express - Asma Khan moves onward and upward to Covent Garden
Asma Khan's restaurant finally gets to open the doors of its much larger new space - we went along to try one of their tasting menus.
- The original Covent Garden Dishoom is about to get a lot bigger
26/11/20 - updated with new soft launch details
As it reaches its 10th anniversary, Dishoom is going back to the beginning, with a big change to its original Covent Garden restaurant. The smallest of the group, it's about to get a lot bigger as they've taken over the space left behind by the
... - Café Spice Namaste launches fund as it prepares to leave its Whitechapel home of 25 years
It's a sad way to mark an anniversary. But, as Cyrus and Pervin Todiwala prepared to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Café Spice Namaste, they also had to contend with the fact that they were losing the restaurant's East London home.
Café Spice Namaste has been in its current address on Whitechapel's Prescot Street since 1995 which, when you consider the churn of the London restaurant scene, is nothing
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