Anna Soubry MP informs us: Haveli Restaurant in Chilwell have been voted runners up in Parliament’s prestigious Tiffin Cup. They were nominated by Broxtowe MP Anna Soubry in the competition for the best South East Asian restaurant in the UK and received runner up prizes from the Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow.
Judges of the competition led by TV chef Ainsley Harriott voted Haveli the best in the East Midlands and runners up in the UK competition.
In a “cook off” final at the House of Commons Haveli chefs competed with twelve other regional finalists in the competition organised by Leicester MP, Keith Vaz.
“I nominated Haveli because I have eaten there many times since they opened less than a year ago and the food is delicious. I am delighted they have done so well in this tough competition” said Anna “Haveli competed with some of the best Indian and South Eastern restaurants in the UK and beat most of them. For first timers this is a fantastic achievement.”
Haveli Restaurant is at 10 Attenborough Lane, Chilwell 0115 922 7778
I will add the following:
The Tiffin Cup is an annual British competition run by the Tiffin Club to find the best South Asian restaurant in the United Kingdom. Nominees are selected by their constituency and then put forward by their local MPs. One restaurant from every region is then shortlisted and invited to participate in the Grand Final cook-off event held in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, as judged by MPs and guest celebrities, with the proceeds going to a selected charity.
Tiffin is lunch, or any light meal. It originated in British India, and is today found primarily in Indian English. The word originated when Indian custom superseded the British practice of an afternoon tea, leading to a new word for the afternoon meal. It is derived from the obsolete English slang tiffing, for “taking a little drink or sip”. When used for “lunch”, it is not necessarily a light meal.
In South India and in Nepal, the term is generally used for between-meals snacks: dosas, idlis, etc. In other parts of India, such as Mumbai, the word mostly refers to a packed lunch of some sort, in particular to light lunches prepared for working Indian men by their wives after they have left for work, or for schoolchildren by their parents. In Bombay, it is often forwarded to them by dabbawalas, sometimes known as tiffin wallahs, who use a complex system to get thousands of tiffin-boxes to their destinations.
Tiffin often consists of rice, dal, curry, vegetables, chapatis or “spicy meats”.
In addition, the lunch boxes are themselves called tiffin carriers, tiffin-boxes or sometimes tiffins.
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