Leicester’s Red Hot World Buffet It’s Curry
The city of Leicester has seen its
biggest restaurant open during
the summer with the latest
launch branch of the Red Hot
World Buffet.
With several sites to its name,
including Manchester, Leeds
and Nottingham, Red Hot
World Buffet’s new operation
has come courtesy of a £2
million renovation and amounts
to Leicester’s single biggest
restaurant investment.
Located on the corner of
the High Street and Highcross
shopping centre, the site,
which is set over two floors and
seats up to 420 covers, covers
£16,000 sq foot, with a bar and
live entertainment facilities. The
restaurant’s successful dining
formula is the same as its sister
establishments with an ‘all you
can eat’ concept, with cuisines
ranging from Indian, Italian and
British through to Mexican,
Chinese and Japanese.
James Horler, CEO of the Red
Hot World Buffet group, said
of the opening, “The venue
has everything under one roof
including a fantastic choice of
food to suit every taste from
pizza and pasta to sushi and a
world grill serving meats and
fish. ot forgetting the range
of quality desserts including 14
varieties of cake, four types of
fruits, two Indian desserts and
a chocolate fountain with all the
trimmings.
“We hope to offer something
for everyone. It’ll be a great
destination for families to enjoy
a meal out together plus with
the variety and quality of food
on offer, it’s an ideal place
for groups of friends, work
colleagues or students to have a
night out. learly for fire fighters,
all they need is the hot stuff!”
Mridula Baljekar Gets World Gourmand Recognition
Famed Indian cookery book
author and chef Mridula Baljekar
has once again made a name
for herself on the international
culinary circuit by scooping the
‘Best Indian Cookbook in the
World’.
Awarded by the Gourmand
World Cookbook Awards,
considered to be the Oscars
of the cookbook world, this
is Baljekar’s second ‘Best
in the World’ by Gourmand.
The awards ceremony in
Beijing, China,
had participants
from around the
world totalling
187 countries.
i finalists were
chosen from each
category and
Baljekar won for
UK-India for her latest book,
The Complete Indian Regional
Cookbook.
Published by Lorenz
Books, the cookery book is
a compilation of recipes
exploring well-known as
well as unknown territories
of India.
“I was just numbed by
the award announcement,”
said a jubilant Baljekar. “It
was such a surprise. I was
shocked and completely
overjoyed, all at the same
time. I’m next working on a
book, which is really uniquely
different, but I won’t say just yet
as to what it is!”
The Mint Room to Launch in Bristol
Bath’s famed and awardwinning modern Indian
restaurant The Mint Room
is launching a second site
in the south-west, in Bristol,
Somerset.
Located in the city’s upmarket
Clifton area, the premises,
formerly a short-lived Indian,
are multi-level and will be larger
than its original counterpart,
with a large bar area by the
entrance. Though the name of
the new restaurant will remain
the same as the Bath site, the
menu concept will change, with
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plans for a bar menu and a
tasting menu running alongside
the a la carte.
“This is an exciting next step
in our expansion plans for
the Mint Room,” said Luthfur
Rahman, owner and managing
director of the group. “We have
achieved a tremendous level of
success with the restaurant in
a very short of space of time in
Bath, winning just about every
award possible on a local level
as well as nationally at the
British Curry Awards and being
Michelin listed. I could not have
asked for more.”
“In Bristol, we are going to do
even better,” he added.
for National
Heroes
A national survey
commissioned by
UniformDating.com, the UK’s
top dating site for uniformed
professionals, has shown
that curry is never quite far
from the stomach of national
heroes in places such as
wards, police stations,
hos itals, fire stations and
on patrol.
Curry has been voted as
their favourite dish, whilst
coming up next as their
favourite were fish and
chips, and soups.
Topping the polls overall
, with curry, fire
fighters were articularly
keen on the spicy treat
with 29% choosing it as
their favourite dish. The
British classics, however, of
gammon and chips and a
full English breakfast were
less popular with not a single
vote.
Both doctors and nurses
came out as being the
healthiest of the bunch in
their meal choices, with them
being the only professions to
include a salad in their top
three dishes.
Although the various
professions had a similar
taste in food, they all
displayed a very