A popular Woodley restaurant has won the Best Restaurant category in a national restaurant awards event.

Located at Lodden Vale Shopping Centre, Jalpari of Woodley, offers customers a unique dining experience and mouth-watering authentic Indian cuisine using hand-sourced ingredients.

On a night celebrating the best Pan-Asian restaurants, takeaways and chefs, the Woodley-based restaurant was recognised as the best regional restaurant of the year for the South-Central region.

The Asian Restaurant and Takeaway Awards 2023 (ARTA) event took place on October 8 at Hilton Park Lane in London hosting some of the UK’s most skilled entrepreneurs and businesses.

The guest list on the night included MPs, dignitaries and celebrities as they collectively honoured the achievements.

ARTA Founder Mohammed Munim said at the awards this year, "I would like to congratulate all of the winners and finalists of ARTA 2023 - the Pan Asian restaurants, takeaways, and chefs who are the pride of the UK's hospitality industry.

"As the first and foremost award ceremony to honour the finest of the UK's Asian restaurant and takeaway industry, we salute your resilience and fortitude as you continue to serve diners and customers across the UK in particularly challenging circumstances. 

"The UK’s popular Asian restaurant industry, synonymous with taking operational and business challenges such as staff shortages and the Covid pandemic head on, now faces a new set of challenges - the current cost of living crisis. The cost of supplies, ingredients, and energy have risen significantly while customers are also facing tightened household budgets.

“In this tough situation, ARTA once again honours the UK’s best Asian restaurants and takeaways who continue to deliver the best in the restaurant and home dining in these tough circumstances. ARTA recognises this industry, which is the result and displays the successes of multiculturalism in the UK."