EDINBURGH’S Harajuku Kitchen has been named the UK’s Best Japanese Restaurant at The Asian Curry Awards 2016.
The restaurant was chosen by a team of judges, led by Pat Chapman, editor of the Cobra Good Curry Guide, who toured the country to determine the winners.
The winners were announced on October 23 at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel during a ceremony attended by over 1,000 guests, including the county’s leading restaurateurs, plus ambassadors and embassy officials, food writers, politicians, VIPs and celebrities.
The Asian Curry Awards recognise the best in the industry, encouraging ever higher standards with the aim to inspire the next generation of chefs and restaurateurs.
Kaori Simpson, chef patron of Harajuku Kitchen, said: “I am totally delighted to win Best Japanese Restaurant at The Asian Curry Awards 2016. It has been a big year for us; first retaining our AA Rosette and then winning this, is the icing on the cake. For Harajuku Kitchen to be recognised in a UK-wide competition as the best Japanese restaurant in the country is such an honour and couldn’t be achieved without the great team I have here in Edinburgh.”
Jane Ellison, MP, Financial Secretary to the Treasury addressed the audience, whose sector contributes around £4.5 billion to the British economy and creates more than 100,000 jobs, promised the Government was listening to calls to tackle the acute shortage of skilled curry chefs.
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