Restaurant voted best in the South West
PUBLISHED: 15:00 13 May 2011 | UPDATED: 19:21 20 February 2013
Restaurant voted best in the South West
A YEOVIL restaurant has<br/><br/>been recognised as the best in<br/><br/>the region following a<br/><br/>national public voting campaign.
A YEOVIL restaurant has been recognised as the best in the region following a national public voting campaign. Signature Viceroy on Middle Street was south west regional winner in the Spice Times Restaurant Awards 2010, which encouraged customers to vote for their favourite south Asian eating place. Voting took place in November and the awards were presented at a gala ceremony in Romford last month, attended by Bangladeshi high commissioner to the UK, the Rt. Hon Rushanara Ali, and Shadow Education Minister Sharon Hodgson. A dozen restaraunts and takeaways received regional awards with the overall national prize going to an eatery in Gateshead. Signature Viceroy is one of six restaurants run by brothers Luthfur and Moe Rahmen. The two are no strangers to accolades as their restaurants have been shortlisted for the British Curry Awards, a separate competition, for six years in a row. Signature Viceroy opened in 2008, 14 years after Luthfur opened his first restaurant in Yeovil, next door. It has previously been recognised as newcomer of the year in the British Curry Awards, and has an AA Rosette and a recommendation from Les Routiers and Taste of the West. The signature restaurant focuses on offering a "fine dining" experience, with innovative cuisine and dishes prepared to customers individual orders. Mr Rahmen said: "The restaurant is Indian in origin but continental in style. "Yeovil is an unlikely place to have a restaurant like this, but we have a good clientelle. "If we can make it work here, we can make it anywhere." The brothers next project is to export the successful formula from Yeovil to Bath. They plan to open a new restaurant in a converted Gospel Hall on the Lower Bristol Road next month.