Reviews
The team behind The Bombay in Orpington have brought an exciting concept to Swanley The location of The Bombay in Swanley, Kent is fairly unassuming; it’s just off the M25, on a high street with a couple of neighbouring restaurants and takeaways. But it stands out from the other frontages with its name in gold …
East Preston’s Reema Bengali Cuisine‘s glowing reputation is spreading far and wide As a former full-time taxi driver Abubakr Siddiq has all the requisite customer service skills to run a restaurant: a friendly and efficient approach, the ability to make customers feel at ease the moment they sit down, patience and a determination to go …
Jamun restaurant in Brighton is the latest offering from husband-and-wife team Nitin and Anushree Patil, having opened Spices and Spirits in Basingstoke in 2019 (which was named Best Restaurant of the Year at the Curry Life Awards 2024) and Spice House in Andover two years ago. Jamun, named after the Indian fruit renowned for its …
Samir Desai likes to keep himself busy. He was a former bus and taxi driver working long hours before he decided to change industry – and probably increase his hours, by opening The Broadway Bar & Grill in Leicester in 2018. He was inspired to open a restaurant by his lifelong passion for food. Seven …
You could never accuse top chef Peter Joseph of being bland. Having spent some 13 years performing wonders in the kitchen of Britain’s first-ever Michelin-rated Indian restaurant, Tamarind, Peter decided to branch out on his own six years ago – to see if he could achieve anything equally mindblowing off his own bat. The result …
Three Rooms in Bedford offers a fine dining experience that draws on India’s rich heritage Three Rooms is no ordinary Indian restaurant. Located in Bedford’s town centre, the restaurant aims to provide customers with a multi-sensory, fine dining experience, with dishes inspired by Mughlai cuisine, whose roots date back to the royal kitchens of India. …
Apart from the usual aromas that assault your senses when you enter a curry house, there’s a definite smell of success when you approach the Temple Fusion Restaurant in Woodford Essex. The buzz of happy customers, being served by contented staff, is almost tangible. Winners of several recent awards – both national and local – …
Innovative dishes and healthy ingredients are the order of the day at Olive Naturally Indian. Street food done healthily is the concept behind Olive Naturally Indian and it’s one that seems to be working well. First opened in 2014 in Hemel Hempstead, there are now two other branches (the biggest, in Flitwick and another one …
Chef Laxman Bhandari’s refined Nepalese cuisine continues to impress diners, 10 years on from opening.
Zolsha has been going strong for 15 years and is looking to make the next 15 and more count Azid Ahmed, or Ash as he prefers to be known, has taken an unusual path to opening his own curry house. No one in his family had former ties to the restaurant industry but over the …
Atikur Rahman is making an impassioned plea for more training for the curry house sector As chef at Brick Lane’s Graam Bangla restaurant, with many years of experience working as a consultant to curry houses and having been involved with the Bangladesh Caterers Association (BCA), Atikur Rahman is undoubtedly in an excellent position to comment …
Takeaways are big business, having grown across the UK in the last year. Curry Life catches up with two Indian takeaways to find out where the challenges lie and their tips for success Whichever survey you look at, It’s clear the takeaway restaurant industry boomed in 2021. Figures from Barclaycard released last December showed that …
