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- Gymkhana restaurant closed by a massive fire
One of London's top Indian restaurants, Gymkhana in Mayfair, was the centre of attention yesterday for all the wrong reasons when a huge fire broke out mid afternoon. It took firefighters more than two hours to get the blaze under control, which appears to have been caused by a ventilation fire in the restaurant's kitchen.
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- Ooty Station is a casual Indian cafe in Marylebone
Fine dining Indian restaurant Ooty opened on Baker Street back in February and now its sister site Ooty Station is opening up right next door. Compared to the more formal main restaurant, Ooty Station is a casual cafe and bar serving Indian-inspired bar snacks, mains, and cocktails.
Ooty’s Head Chef Manmeet Singh-Bali (who won a Michelin star at Vineet Bhatia) is also behind Station’s menu
... - Million Pound Menu winners Baba G's are coming to Camden with their first restaurant
After winning an episode of the BBC's Million Pound Menu, street food legends Baba Gs are finally settling down with their own restaurant in Camden. They'll have their famed burgers and some brand new dishes too. - Dishoom supersize their breakfast with a Double Bacon Naan
Be still our beating hearts. One of London's most beloved breakfast dishes - the Dishoom Bacon Naan is getting an upgrade. From next week, the cult group are bringing in a range of new morning delights, key of which is the Double Bacon Naan. Featuring double the usual amount of smoked streaky bacon stuffed into freshly baked naan, with cream cheese, chilli tomato jam and fresh herbs - it'll set you back £9. A small price to pay for its legendary hangover-quashing
... - Farzi Cafe
Experimental Indian restaurant comes to London
- Lucknow 49 on Maddox Street will be the new restaurant from the Dum Biryani team
Inspired by the Lucknow region's Awadhi cooking, chef and restaurateur Dhruv Mittal is opening a restaurant with all manner of biryanis, kebabs and lunchtime quick bites. - Kricket team up with Patty and Bun for charity - and it looks delicious
We're always partial to a good collab, and one that not only sounds delicious but also raises money for charity really is a case of having your cake and eating it. Or should that be your burger?
Patty & Bun and Kricket are the two companies joining forces - and they've got a month-long collab coming up in April at their White City Television Centre spots.
In a Ready...Steady...Cook scenario - both have been given the same set of
... - Asma Khan talks about her episode on Netflix's Chef's Table
25/2/19 - updated with Asma's charity details
We've known for quite a while that London's very own Asma Khan was going to be the star of the upcoming Netflix TV series but were sworn to secrecy until Netflix deemed it time to go live with the info. And, honestly, we just couldn't be more pleased. Asma's rise to star restaurateur and chef status hasn't been an easy one, as she tells us below, but it's most
... - Atul Kochhar is opening Kanishka in Mayfair
Atul Kochhar's first new restaurant after Benares is this Mayfair spot focusing on lesser-known Indian dishes - Test Driving Kutir - Rohit Ghai serves up inventive Indian cuisine in a Chelsea townhouse
Rohit Ghai has had hits with his food at Gymkhana and Jamavar - we head over to Chelsea to see how his first solo restaurant Kutir shapes up. - Kutir's Rohit Ghai opens KoolCha restaurant at Boxpark Wembley
- Ooty Indian restaurant is taking over the Galvin Bistrot site - with an ex VBL chef in charge
Taking the space that once held Galvin Bistrot De Luxe is Ooty Indian restaurant. It comes in three parts - a fine dining restaurant led by the ex head chef of Vineet Bhatia London, an underground cocktail bar and an all-day casual dining restaurant. - Baba Gs are winners in the BBC's My Million Pound Menu
In the second week of My Million Pound Menu, where Fred Sirieix and others are handing out wads of cash to promising restaurant start-ups, London stalwart Baba G's has come out top. At the end of the programme, both Jamie Barber and Atul Kochhar were bidding for them, but Kochhar came up top with his £300k
... - Secret Samosa Club are bringing cheeseburger samosas to Borough
Chef Rick Matharu and winner of Food Network's Recipe to Riches first brought his homestyle Punjabi-Canadian cuisine to Canadians back in 2015. His fusion twist on classics like masala chaat fries and butter chicken mac 'n' cheese won them legions of fans - including the PM Justin Trudeau.
Last summer he started popping up around London and next up is a two week pop-up at the Great Guns Social in Borough for two weeks. Rick - and longtime friend and collaborator Joti
... - Street food face Spicebox finds a permanent home in Walthamstow for its plant-based curries
British curry house favourites are re-imagined in plant-based form by street food favourite SpiceBox.
