Chutney Mary, Veeraswamy, Amaya and several Masala Zone restaurants in London, England, are well known restaurants serving real Indian food owned by Masala World.

Masala World seeks to create restaurants with real Indian cuisine from the many regions of India in an appealing ambience with friendly hospitable service.

Masala World has won the Restaurateur of the Year Award in the high-profile Tatler Restaurant Awards. The restaurant group serves over 800,000 customers a year. It uniquely spans both fine dining and casual dining restaurants serving real Indian cuisines.

The Promoter Directors of Masala World are Mr Ranjit Mathrani (a former senior investment banker), Ms Namita Panjabi and Ms Camellia Panjabi - a leading world authority on Indian food.

Fine Dining

Chutney Mary, located in Chelsea, London was created in 1990. It won the Award of the Best Indian Restaurant in the UK shortly afterwards. Chutney Mary has won numerous other awards and accolades.

Veeraswamy, UK's oldest Indian restaurant, was acquired in 1997 and transformed twice since its purchase. National Geographic, the highly respected travel magazine, has named Veeraswamy as the No. 8 Best Destination & Special Restaurant in the World in its list of the 10 Best Destination & Special Restaurants in the World. No other UK restaurant is in the top 10.

Amaya, their latest top-end restaurant was launched in October 2004. It won two prestigious restaurant awards in the UK in the same year - The Tio Pepe ITV 2005 Awards for the Best Restaurant of the Year as well as the Best New Restaurant of the Year.

Amaya has also been awarded a Star in the Michelin Red Restaurant Guide since 2006.

Casual Dining

The casual dining restaurants are under the Masala Zone banner and were launched in 2001. They combine real Indian food at honest prices with casual style. Each Masala Zone restaurant has its own unique ambience, combined with the same Indian food and friendly service.

There are currently five Masala Zone restaurants all in London – Covent Garden, Soho, Earls Court, Camden Town and Islington - all creating genuine Indian tastes.

New Masala Zone restaurants will be opening in London - in Fulham and Bayswater in late summer 2008. More Masala Zone restaurant in London will follow steadily, all providing authentic Indian flavours.

Key culinary features

These restaurants have the following key features:

• Their dishes are from the homes of regional gourmet families, Maharajas' palaces, and humble wayside stalls where the best Indian food in India is found.
• The specialities are from many diverse regional cuisines of India – a continent with 16 different languages and cultures.
• All our restaurants employ Indian regional specialist chefs, recruited directly from different regions of India, creating their own specialities.
• These dishes are prepared authentically, as in Indian homes, and no short cuts are taken.
• Presentation and ambience are also important.
  

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Masala World, 1 Great Cumberland Place, London W1H 7AL
tel: +44 (0)20 7724 2525, fax: +44 (0)20 7724 5511
email: info@realindianfood.com