Stop press! Global hospitality history is being rewritten. It is reverse colonialism…the most delicious kind too. It’s the first time that any historic heritage restaurant site located in the heart of a country’s capital has been taken over by a foreign cuisine restaurant. I refer to the Criterion (1873) in London where Masala Zone Piccadilly Circus has just opened, sending seismic shock waves through London’s restaurant-scape, especially among established British restaurateurs who would’ve yearned toa fine balance between the contemporary Indian idiom and a British setting. Therein lies its magic!
