A new Indian restaurant called Chilli Castle has opened in Hutton with show-stopping dish.
Take a tour around with owner VJ Efraim who has promised to bring a taste of India to his customers.
Take a tour around with owner VJ Efraim who has promised to bring a taste of India to his customers.
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00:00A new Indian restaurant has opened its doors in Hotton.
00:06Chilli Castle opened last week and has already created a stir with customers with one show-stopping
00:13dish.
00:14Let's take a look.
00:16Hotton Crescent and we're just moving around.
00:32A nice sitting area.
00:40And a little bar set up.
00:45It's a waiting area where people just wait because we don't have generally tables much.
00:59It will be booked completely every day.
01:02So people are just waiting.
01:03This is a waiting area completely, yeah.
01:07So people who come on, come on group like six or eight or ten in difference of we allocate
01:11the tables.
01:12And like if it is like 15 people, it's like this table, 10 people, this table.
01:17So we organize according to the parties.
01:20We do a lot of parties here, birthday events and wedding parties even sometimes.
01:25So we recently got a tour, so when they're going to Lake District, they just stop in
01:31here as a middle spot and they're tasting and they're going back.
01:35Last time we had a hundred people tour last Friday.
01:38So that is one of the, as an early start, it's a very good start for me.
01:43So we completely bought as an Indian ambience, I can say.
01:49So it's like India, India.
01:56Entirely, it's also, it's a cultural feeling, I can say.
02:00It's a cultural feeling.
02:04And the spices, the curries, which we generally make the curries here.
02:08So we can just do this.
02:13And then, like India, you get black.
02:26Yeah, very much.
02:27So it's really busy all the time.
02:30It's, we love this.
02:33And our, our Natsyam, so it's a traditional, we brought a traditional, complete Indian
02:45traditional feeling in.
02:46When whoever comes here, they feel like, wow, we came to India, a little India, I can say
02:51that.
02:52Yeah.
02:55That's it, nicely.
02:56Amazing.
02:58Can you just tell me on camera, like what you told me earlier about what inspired you
03:03to start your own restaurant?
03:06Yeah, I was in this hospitality industry from last 10 years where I work from, work in Australia
03:11and I can move back in 2021 to UK.
03:14And I was very passionate about hospitality service where I just want to, I want to service
03:20my people and give the best food, which they love.
03:23They love Indian curries.
03:26And we have a specific South Indian, North Indian, and a complete Asian master chefs
03:32in our restaurant.
03:33So we feel that this is the place where if someone wants to be eat really creams about
03:38the curries and the authentic feel.
03:40Yes, this is the restaurant where I can tell about you.
03:43And yeah, this is, this is the place where I work.
03:46When I came to UK, this is the place where I worked as a dishwasher in this restaurant,
03:50the first job.
03:51Now I'm the owner of the restaurant.
03:54Because I'm very passionate and keen about my goals.
03:56That is what I'm able to succeed in my life.
03:58So I just, I just want to make it a chain of restaurants in UK from England to Scotland,
04:04all over the UK.
04:05I just want to make it as a chain of restaurants and chilli castle.
04:07I want to create a brand and chilli castle.
04:10Thank you very much.
04:11Amazing.
04:12Thank you so much.