Purple Poppadom arrives in Cardiff

Anand George is launching Purple Poppadom, an Indian cuisine restaurant

Anand George at the Abergavenny Food Festival in September (Photo from Guardian Cardiff)

Anand George, an award winning chef, is opening Purple Poppadom, a restaurant that will create nouvelle Indian cuisine.

Purple Poppadom will open in the first week of December in Cowbridge Road East, Canton bringing with it the style of London, says Anand.

We are looking to create a restaurant that has the same delicious food and ambience of the capital city, Anand explains.

Anand has run restaurants in Cardiff previously and believes the city needs something different and wants to create innovative dishes.

He says, “It’s all about the ingredients. Normally a lot of people try to use spices when you can’t; this restaurant is all about a refined, succulent flavour, using spices to compliment rather than overpower the taste buds.”

Food history:

Anand staged Wales’s first pop-up restaurant, Poppupadom, at The GlassHouse in Cardiff Bay and then brought it to the Abergavenny Food Festival in September this year.

Anand has previously run Cardiff restaurants such as Chai Street and the award winning Mint and Mustard in the Heath and has worked in some of Mumbai’s most prestigious five star hotels.

His Mint and Mustard restaurant won him the House of Common’s Tilda Tiffin Cup and he was also awarded the title of the UK’s Best South Asian Chef of the Year in 2008.

He took part in a recent charity event in aid of Ty Hafan’s children hospice in the Vale of Glamorgan. Anand’s cooking expertise was auctioned off for £15,000 to cook at the home of the bidder and his 10 other guests on 19 November 2011.

Did you know?

In addition to his renowned culinary talents, Anand is also a commerce graduate.

Purple Poppadom news:

Keep track of up-to-date news about Purple Poppadom’s launch by visiting Anand’s Twitter page.