Gillian Duncan Born and raised in the UK, Mabruk Khan would often crave a traditional British roast dinner: Beef or chicken with vegetables and gravy. But restaurants serving Sunday lunches did not cater for him as a Muslim because they were never halal. For many years, the idea remained little more than a life goal.
“I could see a roast looked great and smelt great but I couldn’t have it,” Mr Khan told The National. “So, it left a lot of us craving somewhere.” Mr Khan decided to open his own restaurant – The Great Chase – offering an alternative to the usual Lebanese or Turkish food, curries and kebabs.
As far as he is aware, it is the first fully halal restaurant focused on serving a traditional British roast in central London. “I identify as British,” said Mr Khan, 37, who has a Bangladeshi heritage and was born and raised in the UK capital. “But I had nowhere I could go to eat traditional British food, like a roast or a beef wellington – or anything of that sort.
I wanted to make that accessible to everyone.” Khan’s business partner Simon Pearson, 36, was sold on to the idea immediately. “The roast is a fundamentally traditional and quintessentially British experience,” Mr Pearson told The National.
“That kind of food and cuisine is the food that British people come together over. “To have such an enormous section of our society unable to eat that kind of dish was almost insulting.” London’s culinary diversity Halal restaurants have b.
