{"id":4409,"date":"2010-01-08T13:12:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/f-antastic-lasan-is-britains-best-local-restaurant\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T12:11:50","slug":"f-antastic-lasan-is-britains-best-local-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/f-antastic-lasan-is-britains-best-local-restaurant\/","title":{"rendered":"F-antastic! Lasan is Britain\u2019s Best Local Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Birmingham restaurant comes out on top on Gordon Ramsay\u2019s F Word<\/h3>\n
\"\"ONE of Birmingham\u2019s most critically acclaimed curry houses has received the golden nod from Gordon Ramsay after winning his F Word contest.<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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Indian eatery, Lasan, beat off competition from 10,000 restaurants to the crowned Britain\u2019s Best Local Restaurant in Gordon Ramsay’s F Word contest which aired on Channel 4 on Thursday night. <\/div>\n

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And the restaurant, based in the city\u2019s Jewellery Quarter, is now aiming to become the first Michelin-star Indian restaurant in Birmingham.<\/div>\n

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Head chef Aktar Islam said he was delighted with the award.<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a massive achievement. It\u2019s hard to describe the emotions I was going through when Ramsay said we had won,\u201d he told the Birmingham Post.<\/div>\n

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\u201cWinning the title is a massive step in raising the profile of Indian cuisine beyond takeaways and Tikka Massalas. <\/div>\n

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“My menus are designed to challenge perceptions, whilst still retaining authentic and original recipes, and the restaurant aims to be the height of sophistication and fine dining. I always wanted to prove Indian food could kick it with the best of them and I hope this win shows that.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Aktar and co-chef Aysan Shaikh went up against Cambridgeshire\u2019s The Pheasant gastro pub in the eagerly anticipated final.<\/div>\n

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Both teams were given the task of preparing three courses using meats reared throughout the series by TV personality Janet Street-Porter. <\/div>\n

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And it was Aktar\u2019s mouth-watering menu of ginger chicken starter, specially marinated rump steak and Gaja Ka Halwa desert which wowed the show\u2019s critical diners. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n

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Birmingham restaurant comes out on top on Gordon Ramsay\u2019s F Word ONE of Birmingham\u2019s most critically acclaimed curry houses has received the golden nod from Gordon Ramsay after winning his F Word contest. Indian eatery, Lasan, beat off competition from 10,000 restaurants to the crowned Britain\u2019s Best Local Restaurant in Gordon Ramsay’s F Word […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}