Articles

Diet ‘not to blame’ for South Asian health issues

For British South Asians, food is central to family gatherings, celebration, tradition and a connection to cultural identity. Yet ‘curry’ ...
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Cookery classes by top UK chef

By Martin Banks Dev Biswal, the chef-patron of the award-winning The Cook’s Tale restaurant, is giving the public direct experience ...
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VAT’s not the problem

The Hospitality Industry Doesn’t Have a VAT Problem. It Has a Profitability Problem By Dev Biswal Every few years, the hospitality ...
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Restaurant Review – Café Chourangi’s Calcutta Street Food Fest

Café Chourangi’s newly launched Calcutta Street Food Fest is an ambitious attempt to capture the flavours and nostalgia of one ...
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Tresind

Trèsind Mayfair is one of the most exciting openings in London’s Indian fine dining scene. It arrives with the confidence ...
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Veeraswamy

History on a Plate A visit to one of London’s most famous restaurants, facing expulsion from its ancestral home. Recent ...
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RAAZ Modern Indian – Putney

Relaxed Indian fine dining from Michelin-trained Imran Mansour comes to SW19 Having grown up in south west London, I spent ...
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JM Socials adds 11th venue

JM Socials, which has 10 restaurants in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, is to open a new venue that mixes “Indian gastronomy ...
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Odisha

Billed as “India’s Best Kept” secret. Odisha on India’s north-west coast has attracted relatively few visitors compared to those on ...
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The History of Curry

Despite editing this guide, I must confess to a slight discomfort with a single term which attempts to reduce the ...
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