A new pan-Asian restaurant, will launch on the ground floor of Debenhams’ flagship Oxford Street store this autumn. The dining concept and brand will be exclusive to Debenhams, with further sites planned to open within Debenhams stores across the UK. Debenhams have enlisted restaurateur Eddie Lim, owner of Thai institution; Mango Tree restaurant in Belgravia. […]
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Shelim Hussain Wins EY Entrepreneur Award
Shelim Hussain MBE – Photo: EY Shelim Hussain MBE, owner of the Euro Foods Group and Founder of Kukd.com won the EY London & South Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2015 recently at a ceremony at the Tate Modern. Shelim Hussain MBE is a Bangladeshi-born British entrepreneur. He has worked in restaurants since the age […]
Dim sum by Helen and Lisa Tse (Sweet Mandarin)
Helen and Lisa Tse are their family’s third generation of restaurateurs, opening Sweet Mandarin in Manchester in 2004. They have successfully survived two notorious TV ordeals having won Best Local Chinese on Gordon Ramsay’s F Word and securing investment from Dragons’ Den for their range of sauces. They have since been invited to Downing Street […]
Interview with Hokkei co-founder Larkin Cen
MasterChef star Larkin Cen has recently been trying to change how the British public perceive Chinese/Asian food by setting up Hokkei in Cardiff, with business partner and fellow MasterChef runner-up Dale Williams. You can find out more about their culinary journey as they are on TV at the moment, starring in the BBC series Larkin […]
Chefs Lisa and Helen Tse awarded MBE
Entrepreneurial twin-sisters Helen and Lisa Tse introduce their diverse range of traditional and adapted Chinese dishes in their fantastic first cookbook. Their restaurant, Sweet Mandarin won Gordon Ramsay’s Best Local Chinese restaurant on Channel 4’s The F Word. They have recently been awarded an MBE on the New Years Honours List 2014, giving them deserved recognition […]