Curry Life Award Brochure:Layout 1 01/10/2013 09:40 Page 3 CURRY LIFE CHEF AWARDS Sunday 6 October 2013, Lancaster London Hotel Supported by Curry Life Awards 2013 The team: Acknowledgements: Syed Nahas Pasha We are grateful to the following Syed Belal Ahmed for their support Shamsul Islam Partha Mittra Peter Renfrew Zoe Renfrew Daniel Pasha Samuel Ahmed Iffath Pasha Taslima Akhter Habibur Rahman Awards Special published by Curry Life magazine Suite 308, Third Floor, Waterlily Business Centre, 69-89 Mile End Road, London E1 4TT Tel: 020 7265 9092 E-mail: info@currylife.com Samson Sohail, Nobab Uddin, Amirul Chowdhury, Allam Ullah, Molay Chandan Shaha, Mohammed Jubair, Muhibur Rahman Muhib, Amin Ali, Parvez Ahmed, Jamal Uddin Ahmed, Cobra Team, Weekly Janomot, and Channel S. We are also thankful to all the Photographers: Kois Miah Imran Ali Farhan Rashid other Bengali TV Channels and newspapers for their coverage of various Curry Life events.
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THE PREFACE The United Kingdom may have a soft spot for old favourites like bangers and mash and fish and chips but we all know the British appetite for curry remains unrivalled. Once again, the Curry Life Awards and Gala Dinner celebrates the success of Great British Curry s and Restaurateurs who worked hard to make this food popular and also stimulating economic growth. Some ten years ago when Curry Life Magazine was first launched, we mainly had one focus, which is to bring the chefs of our Curry Industry into the limelight. The chefs are the backbone of our industry; actually they are the ones who made the food popular. It is their innovation that has given us our favourite national dish Chicken Tikka Masala. We discovered their talents were very often overlooked or sometime not given the opportunity to exploit their fullest potential. I am happy to say with Curry Life s continued support and campaign this situation has now changed. Over the years, Curry Life has discovered and promoted hundreds of extremely talented chefs, through our various events such as food festivals, Curry Life s Club and Curry Life Awards. We are also pleased to see chefs are now getting recognition from various Curry Industry organisations. However, Curry Life proudly remained the trendsetter. This year awards ceremony recognising the best 42 curry chefs in the UK, International Curry of the Year and the Jaguar Award of Excellence for recognising an individual who has worked tirelessly to promote the industry. We Brits have a long-standing love affair with curry dating back to 1809 when the first Indian restaurant opened in London. Curry has now become one of the most traded currencies in the culinary arena of Great Britain. The Curry Life Magazine is keen to help the British curry industry expand by organising event like this one, the Curry Life Awards and our unique brand of British Curry Festival in various countries. In February this year in partnership with the UK trade and Investment (UKTI) we have organised Taste of Britain Curry Festival and Ethnic Food and Drinks Exhibition in Ljubljana, Slovenia, involving Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Slovakia. Along with us, many famous UK Curry Industry brands from rice spice to beer made their presence visible. As a result of this, I am pleased to say our export has grown to that region. Michelin stars are considered to the pinnacle of achievement in the culinary world but there are relatively few Indian restaurants currently holding the honour. Last April, Curry Life Magazine organised an exclusive workshop where two highly acclaimed Michelin Starred chefs Atul Kochhar and Dominic Chapman who shared their hints, tips and techniques and innovative ideas. In addition, Mo Gherras, who has experience of managing many Michelin Starred restaurants, has given tips on how to manage front house of restaurant better and offered advice on how to achieve highest service standards. Last month Taste of Britain Curry Festival was held in Calcutta, India, which received positive responses from local diners and food critiques. Six chefs from different part of the UK, including Michelin chef Dominic Chapman were involved in this British food promotion. The festival attracted massive support and we are particularly grateful for the support from the Prime Minister, David Cameron and the Leader of the Opposition, Ed Miliband MP for our tireless work to promote British curry. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone at Curry Life Magazine and Taste of Britain Curry Festival team for putting up huge number of hours in a day to make all our effort successful. We are also grateful for the support from Madhu s our events caterer in the UK, Hyatt Regency Hotel Kolkata, Hotel Park Ljubljana, Air India, Indra Travel, British Embassy in Ljubljana and the British Deputy High Commission in Kolkata. For all our ventures, no matter what we do to support our Curry Industry, we always have one man and his team solidly behind us, that is Lord Karan Bilimoria, Founder and Chairman of Cobra Beer. Samson Sohail from his team ensured our good work receives continued resources and support. We are deeply grateful for the support we received from our sponsors: Jaguar, Cobra Beer, Pepsi, Chivas, Goldstar s and PASCO. It s their contribution that allows us to do the things we do. One of the things we are most aware of is making our partnerships work for both sides. We congratulate all the chefs and restaurateurs for their achievements. Thank you. Syed Belal Ahmed Editor Curry Life Magazine AwArds special 3
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Winners Habibur Rahman Monaf Dilbar's Restaurant 197 Atherton Road Hindley Wigan WN2 3PR Kayum Ali Spice Fusion Restaurant 78 Long Lane Halesowen West Miidland B62 9DJ Mohammed Haque Jay Roochi Real Indian Cuisine 9 Hartfield Road Forest Row East Sussex RH18 5DN Hobibur Rahman Eastern Cuisine 127 Burwell Drive Witney Oxfordshire OX28 5LP Abdul Malik Jamuna Takeaway 249 High Road South Woodford London E18 2PB Sharif Ahmed Radhuni Restaurant 88-90 Ocean Road South Shields Tyne & Wear NE33 2JD AwArds special 5
Winners Shazu Miah Chutney Joe 117 High Street Brentwood Essex CM14 4RX Kamrul Hasan Rashel Royal Tandoori Restaurant 88-90 Rockingham Road Corby Northants NN17 1AE Abul Hussain Mahaan Authentic Bangladeshi & Indian Cuisine 177-181 Montague Street Worthing West Sussex BN11 3DA Koyes Ahmed Spice Hut 10 Crammavill Street Grays Essex RM16 2BD Abdul Subhan Thania Spice 27a Alvechurch Road West Heath Birmingham B31 3JW Mahboob Rahman Dine Bangla Restaurant 9-10 Wednesday Market Beverley East Yorkshire HU17 0DG AwArds special 7
CHEFS WANTED FOR INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIM Curry Life Magazine is seeking talented chefs to take part in Travel to world-class destinations in Asia, the Middle East or Europe Showcase your culinary skills and The Taste of Networking and photos with VIP guests Britain Curry Festival 2014 Promote your at home and abroad Opportunity to develop and enhance skills Build a profile to be proud of you and your restaurant restaurant signature dishes on a global platform Gather huge worldwide and local publicity For further details ring 020 7265 9092 07956 439 458 or 07956 588 777 Email your details to: info@currylife.com
Winners Mohammed Abdul Mojid Chandini Restaurant Chandini, High Wych Sawbridgeworth Hertfordshire CM21 0HY Partha Mittra Snooty Mehmaan A420, Faringdon Oxfordshire SN7 8PW Syed Faruk Miah Veraj Restaurant Shipton Lane Shiptonthorpe York YO43 3PL Jamal Uddin Westwood East Bangladeshi Cuisine Westwood House Eleanor House, Eleanor Street Oldham OL1 2NN Ferdouse Ahmed Bengal Brasserie 10 The Bullring Church Walk Thrapston NN14 4NP Abdul Ahad Chowdhury Red Rose Tandoori Islington 597 Holloway Road London N19 4DJ AwArds special 9
Winners Abdul Kadir Spice Rouge 99 High Street, Stevenage Hertfordshire SG1 3HR Kamrul Islam Blue Chutney 31-33 The Broadway Wickford Essex SS11 7AD Bosharat Miah Clove Indian Cuisine Ashbourne Road (A523) Bottom House, Leek Staffordshire ST13 7QN Soyful Alom Signature Viceroy 98 Middle Street Yeovil Somerset BA20 1NE Shumon Miah Lamp Restaurant and Bar 18 Upper High Street Wednesbury Birmingham WS10 7HQ Shuhel Miah Red Chilli 2 148-150 Kirkgate Wakefield WF1 1TU West Yorkshire AwArds special 11
Winners Salim Ahmed Siddique Raj Bari Restaurant 49 High Street Yarm, Stockton on Tees TS15 9BH Mohammed Masum Miah Little India Restaurant 1207 Evesham Road Astwood Bank Redditch B96 6AB Sayful Alom Curry Mahal 87 Station Road Sidcup Kent DA15 7DN Abdul Aziz Tikka Tikka Restaurant 61-65 Castle Road Scarborough North Yorkshire YO11 1BH Farid Ahmed Kabir The Third Place Indian Restaurant 129-130 Frankwell ShrewsburySY3 8JX Kaysar Ahmed Zeera Restaurant 21 Barnet Road Potters Bar Hertfordshire EN6 2QX AwArds special 13
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Winners Mokhus Miah Maharani Indian and Bangladeshi Restaurant 46 Norwich Road Ipswich Suffolk IP1 3PF Muzibur Hussain Khan Shabar Restaurant 2-4 Arden Oak Road Sheldon Birmingham B26 3LX Naz Haque Cafe Naaz Indian Restaurant 14 Sandygate Wath-Upon-Dearne Rotherham S63 7LW Md Rafiqur Raza Sopna Tandoori Restaurant Felin Wen, Rhosbodrual Caernarfon Gwynedd LL55 2BB Tahir Miah Spice Republic 499 Lordship Lane East Dulwich London SE22 8JY Touris Miah Indian Night London Road Widford Chelmsford CM2 8TE AwArds special 15
Winners International of the Year Award Vikram Ganpule s foray into the culinary arts began with his 3 year Diploma in Hotel Management from IHM Pusa in New Delhi. But his real passion for gourmet evolved when he spent two years working as Kitchen Executive in a training programme organized by Welcomgroup Management Institute, Gurgaon. Vikram Ganpule Hyatt Regency Kolkata JA-1, Sector III Salt Lake City Kolkata, WB 700098 India As each dedicated must earn his merit through experience, Ganpule too has delved into creating the fine dining experience with his four and a half year stint at ITC. He honed his skills further in his one and a half years in Saudi Arabia, followed by his time serving as pre-opening resource with Leela Bangalore. Ganpule has been with Hyatt for over ten years, having served as Executive Sous at Hyatt Regency Mumbai and several other properties before taking up the position of Executive at Hyatt Regency Kolkata. Jaguar Lifetime Achievement Award Mohammed Mashuk Miah Patuary Qarma Tandoori Cross Mill Cross Street, Leek Staffordshire ST13 6BL For the past 46 years, Mohammed Mashuk Miah Patuary has not only created success for himself, but he has driven the success of the Staffordshire Indian/Bangladeshi cuisine to new levels not only in food but also in service his undying passion for the industry, his desire to succeed, his commitment to causes and the love he has are all key attributes that makes Mr Miah Patuary an ideal person to represent the ideology of the industry and epitomises what the South Asian cuisine industry stands for. Having opened his very first restaurant in 1971, this restaurateur has built up such a reputation across Staffordshire and Shropshire that he is simply known as the infamous curry man, Mr Miah.
Winners Fahmida Chowdhury Taj Cuisine Takeaway High Street Lower Stoke Kent ME3 9RA Malik Ahmed Maliks Cookham High Street Cookham Berkshire SL6 9SF Ashrafun Nessa Begum Cutlers Spice 1 Leighton Road Sheffield S14 1SP South Yorkshire Abdus Shahid Valley Connection 42 Churchgate Street Bury St Edmunds Suffolk IP33 1RG Anwar Uddin Tandoori Nights 62 High Street Hoddesdon Herts EN11 8ET Syed Shuib Ahmed Pink Garlic 4 Chipping Row South Woodham Ferrers Chelmsford Essex CM3 5XU AwArds special 17
Flying the flag The team with acting British Deputy High Commissioner Stephen Brice for British curry in India s were introduced to the media 18 AwArds special
Curry Life headed to India in August 2013 to showcase the talents of some of the UK s best chefs at the Taste of Britain Curry Festival. And what more fitting place to celebrate our tenth anniversary than in Kolkata, former capital of the British Raj and home to the renowned Bengali cuisine? The festival, which had the support of the Prime Minister David Cameron, ran from 23-31st August at the Five-Star Hyatt Regency Hotel, Salt Lake City and was sizzling hot news in Kolkata. Media and television crews including BBC World News, The Telegraph and Times arrived in droves to report on the festival. s were feted and interviewed and the world famous British curries including Chicken Tikka Masala and Balti dishes from Birmingham went down a storm (literally on one particularly blustery day!). But, monsoon weather aside, there was still more than enough sunshine to go round. This year the festival caused an even bigger stir thanks to Michelin star chef Dominic Chapman of the Royal Oak Paley Street who accompanied the team to champion the cause of British food. Diners were treated to traditional favourites such as Roast Lamb, Apple Crumble, and gourmet Fish and Chips served in Dominic s inimitable style. And it seemed that the foodies of Kolkata could not get enough of the team s fusion dishes with a quintessentially British twist. The four chefs from the UK: Allam Shah Ullah of Cutler s Spice in Sheffield; Tofuzzul Miah from Bayleaf, Barnet; Salim Siddique of Raj Bari in Yarm and Jamal Uddin Ahmed from Rochester s Shozna restaurant, saw the festival as the chance of a lifetime. Not only did they get to learn from chefs of Dominic s calibre, they also were under the expert guidance of Partha Mittra, the consultant chef of Curry Life, whose culinary credentials include a stint as personal cook to a former Indian Prime Minister. And in British Deputy High Commissioner Sanjay Wadvani speaking at the press conference British chefs showcasing their dishes. Dominic Chapman AwArds special 19
From left Allam Ullah, Tofozzul Miah, Partha Mittra, Salim Siddique, Jamal Uddin addition to that, they were working alongside the Hyatt s world class team of chefs headed by the esteemed culinary giant Vikram Ganpule. Over the ten days of the festival the team showcased over 70 signature dishes on a global stage. They met some amazing people, VIP guests, gained new friends and contacts and quickly become the stars of the show. They were also able to up their game, learning new techniques and skills, growing in confidence, finally returning with lots of creative ideas to implement in their restaurants back home with the benefit of local publicity and media exposure. The Taste of Britain festival was founded to promote the talents of our home grown curry chefs but it has also become something of a cultural exchange. Our curry ambassadors have now travelled to countries such as Bangladesh, Sweden, Spain, Slovenia and the Middle East showcasing the British version of curry. As the Rt Hon Frank Dobson MP commented during the launch of the festival at the Red Fort in London s Soho One of the greatest ties between communities is food I congratulate Curry Life on helping to build bridges between two great nations the United Kingdom and India with food. We were flying the British flag in India, said Dominic Chapman. It was my first time in India and a fantastic opportunity to visit an amazing country. To be able to do this through food was the chance of a lifetime. Curry Life is now recruiting chefs for our next Taste of Britain Curry Festival. If you would like to become part of our team with the opportunity to travel, work with the best in the business, and showcase your skills on a world stage please ring: 020 7265 9092, 07956 439458 or 07956 588777. 20 AwArds special
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