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🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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The restaurant trade is fickle and can be a "here today, gone tomorrow" business. But a very small number of restaurants seem to have been with us for ever. Dan Saladino explores the secrets of the world's oldest restaurants.
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0:49.4 | It's not often that a dispute between a restaurant and its landlord makes headlines around the world. |
0:52.7 | In fact, perhaps it's never happened until now. |
0:59.0 | Vira Swami, UK's oldest Indian restaurant, is at risk of closing just months before its centenary. |
1:03.0 | Established in 1926, Nirpica Delhi Circus, |
1:07.0 | the Michelin-starred E-tree faces eviction due to leave... |
1:10.0 | ...because of a dispute with its landlord who happens to be the king. |
1:14.6 | Michelin star... |
1:15.6 | Let me tell you that this restaurant isn't just an ordinary place to eat. |
1:19.6 | It opened way back in 1926 and has been serving delicious Indian food |
1:25.6 | for almost 100 years right in the heart of London. |
1:30.3 | From Chaplin dining here with Gandhi and catering to the late Queen as well as hosting Hollywood |
1:38.3 | legends like Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando, Beraswamy is a London gastronomic institution with a Michelin Star to boot. |
1:49.0 | More on the Viraswami story later because I think the possible closure of a gastronomic institution approaching its cent, begs a wider and I think more interesting |
2:02.5 | set of questions, such as when does a restaurant become an institution? |
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