Leading British chefs appeal to save  London’s iconic Indian restaurant Veeraswamy

LONDON, Nov 13: Some of Britain’s leading chefs across cuisines on Thursday came out fighting in favour of one of London’s oldest Indian restaurants, Veeraswamy, which is battling the threat of losing its iconic central location on Regent Street in a lease extension stand-off. In an open letter in ‘The Times’, well-known chefs and restaurateurs such as Cyrus Todiwala, Raymond Blanc and Michel Roux appealed to the Crown Estate, landlord of Victory House, which houses the Michelin-star restaurant for nearly 100 years since April 1926, to “act responsibly”. Last summer, Veeraswamy owners MW Eat were informed that its lease would not be renewed because the Crown Estate wants to extend the ground floor reception area for the offices on the building’s upper floors. The chefs write that co