Unfortunately for Katona, the only critic to visit to date, Marina O’Loughlin, was unimpressed by food she perceived as underseasoned, though this was in 2015. No doubt the group will instead take arms against a sea of competitors, which its menu of chaats, dals, and regional curries has held strong against in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, Cardiff, Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield, and Leicester. We will slink open and I’m sure suffer the slings and arrows of accusations of audacity and hubris. It is beyond my wildest dreams that we have this opportunity to open, heads down and humbly, in a sweet little building that feels like it was always Mowgli. It’s a street that I have dined upon and been fond of all my life. In Fitzrovia, Mowgli, the Indian “street food” brand from Nisha Katona that has grown to a 12-strong group with six more in the pipeline, will open on Charlotte Street, replacing Côte Brasserie. And, in all this, three new openings in quick time display another trend: success stories from outside the capital are looking (mostly) south and thinking: “why don’t we get in on this?” contemporaries in decline mini-chains and corporate indie-backed groups are using their strength to capitalise on a rare upper hand in the property market successful central independents and glitzy money pits alike are looking to the residential neighbourhoods food halls are having a go at a comeback. Huge international chains are muscling in on sites left vacant by U.K. In the sound of settling, it’s possible to discern some signal from the noise in what that change means for restaurant openings in a city where, 17 months ago, the cadence was one of the most relentless in the world. The “ Mowgli Cook Book“ was published in April 2018 and is currently available to purchase on our online Shop.As COVID-19 vaccination rates rise and cases settle into a gradual decline, the restaurant world loses at least some of its pandemic volatility - if not the at-times paralysing uncertainty that the last 17 months have wrought upon restaurants, pubs, cafes, and bars. In 2015 she published her first book “ Pimp My Rice” followed by the “ The Spice Tree“ in 2017. She regularly appears on television and radio as a restaurant, food and business expert including becoming a regular panellist for Radio 4’s Kitchen Cabinet. Her daily tweeted recipes have over 30k followers. Her YouTube cooking channel has an international following. Nisha is a food writer featured in a number of publications including the Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Independent. Nisha, a dedicated curry evangelist, has fond hopes for Mowgli’s growth and she still insists on hand picking curry virgins for her kitchens, hand training each new Mowgli chef. In 2018 Mowgli was awarded a placement in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100 list, and this year Nisha was recognised with an MBE in the 2019 New Year Honours list for services to the Food Industry.
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She gave up her 20 year career as a full time Barrister to build Mowgli Liverpool and opened Manchester Mowgli less than a year later. These dishes convey the truth that real Indian food is extremely healthy, often vegan and always packed with fresh flavour. The simple dishes of a Mowgli menu are a million miles away from the curry stereotype. In 2014, founder Nisha Katona had a nagging obsession to build an eatery serving the kind of food Indians eat at home and on their streets.