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Written by Tandoori
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Sunday, 12 April 2009 10:19 |
 London’s popular Restaurant Week concept, will this year be on the road with events taking place in Birmingham and Manchester, along with the capital.
Based on the successful New York restaurant week, organiser, lastminute.com is giving visitors to the event an opportunity to experience fine dining but at a fraction of the cost.
Lastminute.com is expecting over 40 restaurants to take part at each of the northern events, with over 150 expected to become involved in the London shows.
The event offers two course lunches for £15 and three course dinners for £25. Customers will be given the opportunity to book their tables at the participating restaurants, from 2 March, at lastminute.com.
Mark Bower, Lifestyle Sales Director for lastminute.com said, “We are thrilled to organise Restaurant Week in Manchester and Birmingham as well as London this year. Restaurant Week is a great opportunity to sample fine dining at a fraction of the cost and these days, when everyone is counting their pennies, great value treats are more than necessary if you want to keep on having a busy social life.” |
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Written by Tandoori
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Friday, 27 February 2009 00:00 |
 Faiz Choudhury, the “Keith Floyd” of Asian food in the Midlands, and one of Birmingham’s eldest and most established restaurateurs recently hosted the Purple Rooms 20th anniversary celebration, raising over £2000 for local charity, The Christmas Tree Fund.
The Purple Rooms has, over the past two decades, received many accolades, including Good Food Award, seven Egon Ronay recommendations and The Birmingham Mail Restaurant of the Year 2005 - 2006.
Until recently, Choudhury was food columnist for Solihul News. He has also published a fund raising charity recipe book, Hot Stuff, Art of Bangladeshi Cooking, and been active in the community both locally and internationally as Chairman of the Bangladesh Business Forum, the President of Bangladesh Association, Cultural Society and Bangladesh Business Enterprise Council.
Choudhury has raised over a million pounds for the Multi Purpose Centre in Aston and received recognition for his charity work when the Queen awarded him an MBE, in 1988, for services to the community.
Midlands News
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Written by Tandoori
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Monday, 23 February 2009 00:00 |
 The owner of a fast food outlet in Wolverhampton prepared Kebabs as a dead colleague lay opposite him, a court has heard.
Police were called to the Pappu Sweet Centre in August to investigate the death of an employee and discovered the man’s body on a sofa near the kitchen. The business was immediately shut down.
A police statement read out in court said, “Upon his arrival the officer observed a dead male lying on a sofa at the rear of the main kitchen. Sat opposite was Mr. Jaswinder Singh who was preparing food, making kebabs.”
The court heard that on an earlier visit to the shop, environmental health inspectors found a dead rat underneath a cooking pot, staff smoking and spitting on the floor and fridges whose temperature were over 20c.
Singh, who had admitted 12 food hygiene charges, has since been banned from managing any food business and Judge Martin Brown ordered him to pay £3,861 in fines and costs.
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