Veteran restaurateur Rajesh Suri, formerly of Tamarind, the smart Mayfair Indian, is to open a new venture, Grand Trunk Road in South Woodford, northeast London, on Monday November 7. The menu will reflect cooking in the towns found along the Grand Trunk Road, the ancient route across northern India running from Kabul in Afghanistan southeast to Calcutta in […]

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After a very short-lived experiment with British cooking, the Tamarind Collection is going back to what it knows best… and reopening Zaika on the site of the failed One Kensington, which was only launched in March. The press release says the restaurant has been reincarnated ‘by popular demand’, but it may also have something to do with […]

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