Dishoom is to open two new branches of its Permit Room all-day café-bars in the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge this year, following the sub-brand’s launch in Brighton last year. Cambridge opens first, on 20 June, with Oxford celebrating the new academic year in October. The brand is named after the alcohol permits issued […]
Dishoom is to open its latest branch next week – an all-day bar-café called Permit Room in Brighton, which officially launches on Wednesday 1 November, with a soft opening until then. It is the tenth branch of the chain which started out in London in 2010, but the first to be branded under a separate […]
An ambitious Indian restaurant inspired by the coastal areas of the subcontinent’s southern states opens in Leeds this week. Ma-Hé, in the Marrion Centre in the city’s central Arena Quarter, is a debut restaurant from founders Manoj Varma, a spirits consultant with property interests in India, and Leeds-based lingerie entrepreneur Mason Asgha of Delta Connex. […]
Kachori, a smart new Indian restaurant, opened this week at the Elephant Park development scheme in southeast London, with a kitchen run by highly rated Brinder Narula, a former head chef at Gymkhana and Benares. Named after the savoury or sweet-stuffed deep-fried batter balls sold as snacks in India, Kachori describes itself as a modern […]
Goila Butter Chicken, a Mumbai-based single-dish concept billed as a cult version of “India’s favourite dish”, has arrived in the UK with this week’s opening of an extended residency in the new 10-seater ‘incubator space’ at Carousel, the guest-chef restaurant that moved into new premises in Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia, in November. Indian TV chef Saransh […]
Kricket, the modern British-Indian small-plates pioneer, is closing its original venue – a former shipping container in Brixton – at the end of May. Founders Rik Campbell and Will Bowlby opened their 20-seater in the Pop Brixton community project in June 2015, and expanded into permanent Soho premises earlier this year. They are now looking for a new site […]
Chef-entrepreneur Atul Kocchar will open his first UK restaurant under the Not Real Indian (NRI) brand in Birmingham this September, serving cuisine developed by Indian cooks living abroad. Born in India and trained with the Oberoi group, Kocchar made him name at Tamarind in London and in 2003 opened his Mayfair flagship Benares. He launched NRI in Mumbai last year, and […]
The founders of Gunpowder, a home-style Indian in Spitalfields, are opening a Himalayan restaurant nearby on May 9. Madame D’s will combine Indian flavours with influences from the neighbouring cuisines of Nepal, Tibet and Chinese. The short menu of sharing dishes will include gold coin dumplings; pan-fried Tibetan duck momo; garlic coriander steamed chicken; and prawn […]
The family behind Jamavar, the new upmarket Indian in Mayfair, has taken the lease on Claude Bosi’s former restaurant Hibiscus in Maddox and plans to open an as-yet unnamed “casual Indian concept” there later this year. Dinesh Nair, co-chairman and managing director of India’s uber-luxurious Leela Palace group, has joined forces with his daughter Samyukta (pictured) for […]
