By Food Blogger Anita Champaneri
Happy New Year restaurant lovers. I am sure everyone has been eating and drinking to their hearts content over the festive season; but what’s new for 2015 I hear you ask.
The most imminent new opening is Praza by Pushkar in Edgbaston. The art deco building on Hagley Road which was formerly the Rose Murree restaurant, has been taken over by Rai Singh from Pushkar and he has been hard at work creating an art deco inspired aesthetic with monochrome colourways, glass and chrome, creating a very chic and luxurious feel.
This new and exciting venture is set to open in February with a menu created by Executive Chef Bishal Rasaily, who will continue Pushkar’s celebration of North Indian Cuisine. The new menu will feature innovative dishes using different meats such as pigeon, rabbit and lobster!
The new venture has come as a result of the overwhelming success that Pushkar has experienced since Delicious PR launched it 5 years ago in 2009 (yes we will pat ourselves on the back on this one!)
Since then, Pushkar has firmly established itself on the Birmingham culinary scene consistently receiving great reviews, and if Rai’s passion for hospitality is anything to go by, its’ future looks even more golden.
Spring will also welcome The Master and Margarita, the latest stylish restaurant to set up home in The Cube development.
The name of the restaurant comes from the famous Russian novel by M. Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, describing a fantastic world inhabited by a fast-talking cat, a diabolical magician, an outcast writer (The Master) and the spicy Margarita, a woman who falls madly in love with him.
Taking inspiration from the book, the 160 cover restaurant will be all about misleading and teasing, introducing guests to a whole new world of flavours and dishes.
The menu has been developed by Executive Chef Guneet Singh Bindra, the self-effacing chef responsible for turning Asha’s into one of Birmingham’s very best Indian restaurants. The Master’s menu will offer Indian dishes with the elements of the grill and seafood. The curries are prepared with homemade masalas, recipes of which have been passed on for generations in the family of the original founder of the Master and Margarita. Unusually for an Indian restaurant, top quality steaks bursting with flavour are also on the menu.
Another intriguing restaurant looking to open this summer is Pharra Wang on Broad Street. It’s a pan–Asian restaurant which I presume means it will include Indian, Thai and Cantonese food, but this will NOT be a buffet restaurant. The ambitious plans will include a wine library, 3 cocktails bars an indoor rain waterfall and a grand atrium to seat 400 diners, chauffeur service, valet parking and even a meditation room! Set over three floors, it promises to be a wonderful creation which sounds more like a spa/hotel/nightclub than a restaurant! I can’t wait until the doors open.
Publicist and food writer Anita Champaneri brings her blog Ms Delicious PR and all things food to The Asian Today.
Bringing you news and views from the food industry.
Read more at www. deliciouspr.co.uk
