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The Hindoostane Coffee House, opened at 34 George Street, London in 1810, was an Indian restaurant, and the first of its kind in the British Isles. It was founded by Sake Dean Mahomed, a former captain in the British East India Company's Bengal Army. [a] It closed in 1812, when Mahomed became bankrupt. [2] [3]
Anglo-Indian cuisine was documented in detail by the English colonel Arthur Robert Kenney-Herbert, writing as "Wyvern" in 1885 to advise the British Raj's memsahibs what to instruct their Indian cooks to make. [1] [2] Many of its usages are described in the "wonderful" [1] 1886 Anglo-Indian dictionary, Hobson-Jobson. [1]
[6] [7] Chicken tikka masala is now served in restaurants around the globe, and a UK survey claimed it is the country's most popular restaurant dish. [8] One in seven curries sold in the UK is a chicken tikka. The popularity of the dish led the British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook to proclaim it as Britain's true national dish,.
The first modern "upscale" Indian restaurant in Britain is thought to have been The Shafi in 1915, [12] followed by Veeraswamy in London's Regent Street, founded in 1926; [13] the latter is still standing and is the oldest surviving Indian restaurant in Britain. [14] [15] Bengalis in the UK settled in big cities with industrial employment.
The first exclusively Indian restaurant was the Hindoostanee Coffee House which opened in 1810. [74] Curry gained popularity in the UK in the 1940s and 1950s. [74] There are around 9,000 Indian restaurants located across the UK, which equates to approximately one per 7,000 people. [citation needed]
Veeraswamy in Regent Street was not the first Indian restaurant in Britain, as the Hindoostane Coffee House in Marylebone had been opened by Sake Dean Mahomed in 1810, closing in 1812. [8] Nor was it the only one in 1926, but it was probably the first high-end one, and one of the first to cater to a largely European (though initially admittedly ...
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The Tamarind restaurant is an Indian restaurant in Mayfair, London, opened in 1995. The restaurant was founded by businessmen Vipin Khanna and his youngest son, Aditya Khanna. [2] [3] It won a Michelin star in 2001, the first Indian restaurant to do so. [4] [5] The Michelin star was won under then chef, Atul Kochhar. [6]