"Posh Spice" celebrates the incredible contribution of Asian cooking to British culture — eight thousand restaurants, seventy thousand workers, over 3 billion pounds simmering into the British economy. Asians are behind three Michelin-starred restaurants; one of which is Atul Kochhar’s Benares from where Anita Rani presents this week’s mouth-watering Asian Network Report.
For many years Asian food has been dismissed by snotty food critics as something cheap and more than likely nasty — to be wolfed down with a late night larger or five. Fortunately for Anita in "Posh Spice" there isn’t a dodgy balti house in sight; instead this programme sets out to prove what Charles Campion, the food critic of the London Evening Standard, has been banging on about for years, that Britain hosts the best and most sophisticated Asian restaurants in the world; something for which we should rightly be proud.
The Asian Network Report also hooks up with one of Britain’s greatest restaurateurs, the outspoken Michelin-starred chef Sat Bains, who owns and runs Restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham. Sat’s ambition is to run the most gastronomically outstanding restaurant on earth; and if the food he cooks up in this programme is anything to go by ... he might just get there.
Presented by: Anita Rani
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shah, birmingham
most balti restaurants like the ones on Ladypool road in birmingham are owned by Pakistanis. The best ones in Southall like TKC, MUMTAZ in Bradford, all the ones on Wilmslow road Manchester are Pakistani. Most fast food joints are Pakistani owned. Its true Bengalis own the out of town posh restaurants that cater for the english. Where are the sikh and hindu restaurants? less than 5% are owned by them.
abdul, london
I hope they give Bengalis the respect they deserve in the documentary. Most Indian restaurants are owned and run by Bengalis and the best loved Indian dishes were created by Bengalis.