Dinner on the Government AND your credit card provider: How to get 75% off your food bill from Monday making a £20 meal for two cost just a FIVEREight in ten shoppers vow to spend locally after lockdown, research showsGovernment urged to axe rip-off retirement home fees in small print as crackdown is delayedIs this the best credit card deal ever? 'So it is important for me to tell my story because even if I failed I could tell people what the landscape looked like if you try at this age and with kids. 'Even now, when Nisha reviews her menus, she heads to social media to ask which dishes are doing well and why people aren't taking to others. 'We need to be representing all the people with phenomenal ideas that often come from cultures that live with particular challenges.
'It is important that people can eat healthy and feel good but not have to pay an arm and a leg to do so.'
Add an item . Join our newsletter and never miss any of our great content and for exclusive access to competitions and offers.Becoming a lawyer is hard work, not only is it a competitive field for women, you have to fund the expensive course, find a firm that will supervise you while you complete your training, you also have to have strong academic ability and a studious mind. 'During the research stage, when I would knock on restaurant doors and ask to speak to the owner, I always hoped to see a 40-year-old woman, but I never did.' Experts warn deals for borrowers with small deposits are likely to remain limited for some timeHouse prices jumped £4,500 in July as lockdown buyers hit the market but Nationwide warns of a 'false dawn'First-time buyers face rising mortgage rates as lenders hike rates on high loan-to-value loansI have to turn on the hot tap a long time before my combi boiler kicks in: I'm on a water meter so am worried about wasting money - can I fix it? 'The mum-of-two also uses her success for good where she can, with each restaurant supporting a local charity. 'Even though I had a real depth of passion and knowledge for the market.
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'These dishes convey the truth that real Indian food is extremely healthy, often vegan and always packed with fresh flavour. 'We opened our home and fed people. We were unable to submit your evaluation. Be the first to evaluate this category.
Nisha Katona, 48, is a barrister-turned-restaurateur, having ditched the court dress for a chef's apron when she couldn't contain her 'beastly' obsession to share her authentic Indian cooking any longer.She decided to start Mowgli Street Food as she believed 'the stuff you get in Indian takeaways and "traditional" curry houses is not real Indian food. Violence & Gore.
'After the success in my local area, I wondered if the Liverpool High Street would want to discover the truth too. Nisha travelled around the UK discovering the secrets of incredible home cooked curries. Nisha, who places high value on home cooked food, saying it is:Nisha’s hard work has certainly paid off. 'Nisha was a barrister for 20 years before deciding to open Mowgli Street FoodUnfortunately, Nisha's dream didn't work out exactly as she wanted.
Her restaurants have won several awards and received high praise while she has also been honoured - most recently quite literally in the 2019 New Years Honours list for her 'services to the food industry'.But Nisha continues to stay humble, and says: 'Every penny of Mowgli goes back into Mowgli. As a director of the Mowgli Trust, she donates over £500,000 to different charities every year.But Nisha also wants budding entrepreneurs to hear her story and notice she is not the 'typical business woman' and that they don't have to be either in order to be successful.
She has also just negotiated her 19th lease, with sites expected to open in the coming years in Scotland, Bath and York, just to name a few.She says she is unlikely to open a restaurant in London in the near future - which is down to high rent rates - which she says can eat into profits and is why so many chains have collapsed. If you click on them we may earn a small commission. For example, customers recently told her they weren't likely to order the 'Calcutta cabbage tangle' because 'Brits won't eat anything with cabbage in the name'.She recalls: 'We changed the name to 'Calcutta tangled greens' and now it's one of our favourites.
'When the first site opened on Bold Street in Liverpool in 2014, the queues were 'round the block'. 'Entrepreneurs look and speak differently now and that is why these stories need to be told to give a better picture of the landscape.
Like her parents before her, she knew cooking was one way of bringing people together.Nisha started spending weekends teaching her homemade family recipes to people in the local area in her home. 'I was 40 and had two dependent teenage children and a husband that travelled a lot. I started a Facebook page before I built the restaurant, and would ask people if they would eat what I was planning to make and what they would pay. It takes over your life. I do not always presume everything is going to work. That helps us fund This Is Money, and keep it free to use. DISCLAIMER: We endeavour to always credit the original source of every image we use. She is the founder of Mowgli Street Food restaurants which specialises in authentic, healthy Indian home cooking. Being able to cook masses of food is pretty much the best ice breaker,' she says.She then went on to become a barrister, but was once again singled out and ostracized for being part of not one, but two minority groups. All Rights Reserved. 'The banks wouldn't lend to me because they thought I was having a mid-life crisis.
“Being an Indian female with grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts and a brother who were all doctors, I wanted to follow suit.