Leamington Indian restaurant Bombay is Editor's Choice at The Curry Life Awards

The Awards, staged by British food magazine Curry Life were announced at a glittering event at the London Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square in Mayfair on Sunday October 13.

VIP guests at the event included Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting and host for the evening Camilla Tominey from ITV morning television.

Bombay manager and owner Iftehar Ahmed, said: "This is the big one.

"Honestly, we are still lost for words.

"When the editor and his team attended the restaurant we was very nervous.

"We wanted everything to be perfect and literally blow them away.

“Obviously we did that.

"We’d like to dedicate this award to all our customers past and present – this one’s for you."

Bombay restaurant has been in the Ahmed family for the last 40 years.

It is currently owned and managed by Iftehar and his daughter Nissa, who, in-turn, took over from Nissa’s grandfather and uncles, Ahmed, Kamal and Anwar - who opened the restaurant way back in 1979.

Nissa said: “It has been hard work working towards this huge accolade.

"For the past 12 months we have been implementing constant improvements throughout the business, right from the kitchen to marketing, and we can now safely say that it’s paid off.”

The Curry Life Awards are the biggest and most important ceremony on the UK’s Indian restaurant business calendar.

For more information about the awards visit https://currylifeawards.com/