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Friday, September 30, 2005

Brittania Spice celebrates at the British Curry Awards

Edinburgh-based restaurant Brittania Spice scooped the Best Restaurant in Scotland trophy at the first British Curry Awards earlier this week. Britain's Top Ten curry restaurants were announced in front of more than 1,000 restaurateurs, celebrity patrons, ambassadors and VIP guests who attended the presentation dinner, the largest event ever held for the Asian restaurant industry.

The ceremony, hosted by Krishnan Guru-Murthy at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, included a special award which went to Atul Kochhar of London's Benares Restaurant for making the most outstanding contribution to the curry industry by a chef.

'We have come a very long way in a relatively short period of time,' Enam Ali, Publisher and Editor of Spice Business (pictured, above left), told the audience. 'Just 30 years ago there were fewer than 500 curry restaurants in the UK and yet oday there are more than 9,000 employing around 70,000 people and turning over a phenomenal £3.2 billion a year. That is a stunning achievement.'

More than 2,800 restaurants were nominated for the awards by 13,000 individuals, making the British Curry Awards the most representative as well as the largest awards in the industry.

The ten award-winners were chosen from a final shortlist of 30 restaurants from all regions, which had been whittled down from a Top 100 selected by a panel of judges from all the nominated restaurants.


The winners were:

British Curry Award Best Restaurant in Central London and the City: Bombay Brasserie, Kensington SW7

British Curry Award Most Innovative Restaurant in London: Tamarind, Mayfair, W1

British Curry Award Best Restaurant in Greater London & Suburbs: Curry Mahal, Harrow

British Curry Award Best Restaurant in the South of England: Malik's, Cookham, Berkshire

British Curry Award Most Innovative Restaurant in the South: Aziz, Oxford

British Curry Award Best Restaurant in the Midlands: Rajnagar International, Solihull

British Curry Award Best Restaurant in the North: Aagrah, Shipley, West Yorkshire

British Curry Award Most Innovative Restaurant in the North: Vujon, Newcastle

British Curry Award Best Restaurant in Wales: Juboraj Rhiwbina, Cardiff

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