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Thanks to all who took an interest in attending the tasting session for our seafood specials. Your response was overwhelming. Now that we know you're so interested, we'll be posting up advance notice and our next tasting session will be for our 24th Baburthday tasting menu.This will be a very exciting tasting session and will most likely involve tasting dishes as well as matching selected dishes

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Would you like to decide what our upcoming seafood specials will be? Are you free to join us on Wednesday, 6 May at 2pm?We're doing this for a few reasons. A number of our guests have asked about tastings recently and we thought it would be good to have their input into the menus we hope will please you. It's good for our chefs and front of house team to hear directly what you think about our

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DO YOU HAVE RAFFLE TICKET 0586? IF YOU DO PLEASE CALL US ON 0208 291 2400 - YOU'VE WON A MAGNUM OF RIOJA.Burns Night Himalayan FlingWe had an amazing and extraordinary evening on Burns Night and such a spirited gathering in the restaurant. So many people gave so generously of their time and of themselves to make this the best night we’ve ever had. The evening was a benefit for the Gurkha Welfare

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Hi - Yet again it's been far too long since I've posted an entry.We've had a good summer at Babur. We took the restaurant on the road. We didn't go far, but we had a good trip. Our first outing was to Blythe Hill Fields in June for what was the Brockley village fete and it was a terrific day out. We met a lot of people we hadn't seen in a long time and the weather couldn't have been better. And

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Hi there. I’m glad to say that our Punjabi festival is up and running and so far response has been pretty good. The dishes are turning out well and most of our customers are ordering from the festival menu. Most people looking in from outside will never realise what it takes to get a festival organised, but I guess that’s the same for most things. Just as one example, we wanted to hang

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5 May - 16 June Hi there. We’ve been busy the past couple of months. Our celebration of Babur’s 525th birthday was successful – our chefs gained a lot of confidence through cooking a cuisine they didn’t think they were familiar with. But as they were trying recipes for the festival, they realised there were interesting similarities (and some differences) with the Indian cuisines they’re more

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18 February - 18 MarchIt’s now just over two years since we re-opened Babur and it’s been a good year. What’s been especially gratifying is the enthusiastic response everyone has shown for the new look of the restaurant. We’re all very happy with the way the restaurant has turned out but it has taken some getting used to. We didn’t manage to do as many events last year as we would have liked to.

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Hi there. For anyone who’s not aware, we started celebrating Babur’s 22nd birthday on 9 July – a bit early but then it’s so unusual for a restaurant to be in business for that long we thought we'd make the most of it. The specials for July and August are all being presented as a tasting menu – a first for Babur - and the nenu was tried and retried and tried again. We did more tasting than we

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Hello there. Glad you could stop by.Sometimes you have to take a long view of things and just wait and work patiently. That’s how it’s been for our two wine champions, Arjun and Rupom. Way back in March when we were trying out wines to go with our Rajasthani festival menu, Peter McCombie MW (our wine consultant) said that for some people, the idea of a sommelier is a bit intimidating and that he

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There’s something I’ve been thinking about for some time and wanted to share with you. We’ve been getting such good response on our food and so many kind words for our chefs and we’re really pleased about that and thanks to all our customers for saying so.But, as I say, that made me think about customers coming into our kitchen for cooking lessons. I know that at Café Spice Namaste Cyrus Todiwala

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Well, we had a good surprise this week. On Wednesday, our copy of Pat Chapman’s Cobra Good Curry Guide 2007 arrived and there on the front cover was a photo of Babur - our restaurant. It was a picture of the sandstone wall in the rear dining room. Besides that, there were photos of our dishes throughout the inside as well.Our review is on pages 140-141 with a photo of our head chef, Jiwan, so he’

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As we’ve been working on our new specials for the month, the latest copy of Upper Crust magazine arrived from India. I like to keep up with new developments in Indian cooking and it helps with ideas for the menu. It seems that new recipes coming from India are using local ingredients in new ways. I was glad to see this because this is the way our menu is developing.We introduced our new specials

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Hi there. Hope you had a good week. Sorry this is a day or two late going up. I’m still trying to get the discipline of sitting down to write for the same day each week, but I’ll get there.No trouble figuring out to write about this week. We had an exciting Tuesday evening at the launch event for this year’s Tiffin Club Cup at Moti Mahal in Covent Garden, organised by Keith Vaz MP. The Tiffin

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I know I promised to have a new posting up each week and I’m a few days late. Sorry. But it’s getting better and I’ll keep trying.When I was about to sit down and write this, I asked the guys in the restaurant what I should write about this time and everyone had plenty to say.This year for the first time we got into the Square Meal guide and we felt very honoured by being included. It felt like

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Hi – it’s Emdad again. If anyone has been checking this site I really want to apologise for my lack of postings lately. I started this blog just as our festival of Rajasthani food started and I intended to keep posting throughout the festival to let you know how it was going. It went really well – so well that I never really got the chance to sit down and write about it. Maybe it was over

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With the family (and me) needing a break and a need to keep up with the new chefs, we hit the road in search of fun, food and learning ... If i've done this right, you should see our pictures below. I've uploaded them to flickr so if there's any you like, click them and you should be able to see a bigger version. Hope you like - we did.So I'm going to start with *why* we all ended up travelling

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Hi. So this is my first attempt at blogging. I guess it's probably best manners to start with an introduction then go on from there. Can't wait to tell the kids I’m doing this. They'll be sp embarrassed. They were the same when I discovered ringtones ... I'm Emdad. I live in and work in London where I have two restaurants ... Babur, in Honor Oak Park and Planet Spice in South Croydon.I've decided

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