Mowgli eyes Leicester expansion

Nisha Katona set up Mowgli in 2014

Fast-expanding Mowgli, the Indian street food group backed by investment company Foresight Group, could be eyeing a Leicester opening.

The restaurant chain, run by Nisha Katona, has just opened in Hockley, Nottingham – and now she has revealed, via the firm’s Instagram account, that it could expand into Leicester.

Posting on the social media platform, Katona said: “I’m toying with taking Mowgli to Leicester which is a city I love for its Indian retail thrills and melamine crockery. I love melamine. I love Leicester but where shall we go? I don’t want to be in the shopping centre. I don’t want a temple to capitalism. I want quirky bohemian Diagon Alley. I spent a few nights and days in St Martins square. It feels very Mowgli and I loved its feel instantly.”

Katona is a food writer featured in a number of publications including the Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times and The Independent. Her YouTube cooking channel has an international following. In 2015 she published her first book Pimp My Rice followed by the The Spice Tree in 2017. The Mowgli Cook Book was published in April 2018

Mowgli has two restaurants in Liverpool, as well as venues in Manchester, Birmingham and Oxford and now Nottingham.

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