Babur among winners at Asian Restaurant Awards 2023

Asian Restaurant Awards 2023 Winners

The prestigious Asian Restaurant Awards were held recently at the Hilton Manchester Piccadilly. At a glittering gala dinner hosted by BBC News anchor Samantha Simonds, winners at this year’s Asian Restaurant Awards received some of the hospitality sector’s most prestigious accolades – uniquely open to the entire range of Asian cuisines. Here’s a look at some of the winners.

The awards were presented by Sir Graham Brady, MP, Chairman of the 1922 Committee.

Addressing an audience of more than 500 of the country’s leading Asian restaurant owners, chefs and local dignitaries, awards organiser, Yawar Khan – Chairman of the Asian Catering Federation (ACF) – praised the industry’s “fresh culinary ideas” and their “willingness to embrace the more discerning needs of the public.”

Babur in Brockley was named Best Asian Restaurant for London Suburbs. Babur has been a culinary gem in south east London for almost 40 years.

Meanwhile, among the regional awards was Best Vietnamese, which was awarded to Mekong in Derry.

Later this year the ACF will also host the seventh Asian Restaurant Awards (Scotland) in Edinburgh at the Sheraton Grand on 18th September and the 13th Asian Curry Awards at the Grosvenor House in London, on 23rd November 2023.

These are the UK’s only restaurant awards open to all Asian cuisines, including: Bangladeshi, Burmese, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Middle Eastern, Pakistani, Singaporean, Sri Lankan, Thai, Turkish and Vietnamese.