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Awards

The awards and recognition the Group, the restaurants and its Directors have received over the years include:

GROUP

Restaurateur of the Year Award - Tatler Restaurant Awards (the first occasion this has been awarded to a Group serving non-European food).

• Holder of Investors in People Award since 2002
• Restaurant Group of the Year – BIBA (Best in Britain Awards) Awards

CHUTNEY MARY

• Best Indian restaurant in the UK - Good Curry Guide. Twice received the Award.
• One of London's Top 20 Restaurants - Evening Standard Eros Award from Fay Maschler -the leading restaurant critic. Twice received the award.
• Best Indian Restaurant in London - ITV Tio Pepe Award
• Best Indian Restaurant in Britain – BIBA (Best in Britain Awards)
• Best Modern Indian Restaurant - Square Meal Guide (For two successive years)
• One of the most Romantic restaurants - London Zagat Guide
• One of the Best Looking Dining rooms in London. – Tatler Guide

VEERASWAMY

• Best Indian Restaurant Award - Time Out, the leading London lifestyle magazine.
• The Square Meal Guide has rated it as amongst the 20 best restaurants in London.
• One of the 10 Best Destination & Special Restaurants in the World - National Geographic, in the 'National Geographic's 10 of the Best of Everything'. (No other UK restaurant features in the top 10).
• Invited by Buckingham Palace to provide the food for a Diwali Reception of the Queen – one of the first occasions on which an outside caterer has provided food in the Palace

AMAYA

Restaurant of the Year Award & New Restaurant of the Year Award - Tio Pepe ITV London Restaurant Awards (First occasion on which either of these awards has been awarded to a non-European restaurant).

• Michelin Star since 2006
• Top Newcomer Award - Zagat London Guide
• Top Newcomer Award – Square Meal Guide
• One of London's Top restaurants for Food - Zagat Guide
• One of Top Private rooms in London – Zagat Guide

MASALA ZONE

• One of the Top 6 Best Value Restaurants in London - Charles Campion's Restaurant Guide
• The Top London Restaurant Brand - BBC Olive Magazine
• One of the Top 5 Cheap eats in London - Time Out Guide
• The Best Value Indian Restaurant in London - Square Meal Guide
• One of the Best Buys in London - Zagat London Guide

DIRECTORS

• Ranjit Mathrani:
• High Sheriff of Greater London.
• Community Award - Asian Voice Political and Public Life Awards

• Namita Panjabi:
• Restaurant Personality of the Year Award - the Real Curry Guide
• Ranked as amongst the top 10 most highly thought of Indians in Britain - Channel 4 Television Poll
• Female Entrepreneur of the Year - Asian Voice Political and Public Life Awards

• Camellia Panjabi:
• Restaurateur of the Year Award - International Food & Beverage Panel Hall of Fame.
  (The first occasion a non-European restaurateur has been awarded this honour)