Restaurants are hot stuff

THREE Edinburgh restaurants have been named among the best in the British Curry Awards.

Britannia Spice and Mya in Commercial Street and Lancers Brasserie in Hamilton Place were among 56 restaurants nationwide to make it through to the finals of the awards.

They were each runners-up in the category for Best Curry Restaurant in Scotland. Almost 3500 restaurants, more than one-third of the UK total, received at least one public nomination in the awards.

A host of celebrities and guests were in the 1100-strong audience at London's Grosvenor House Hotel to watch the awards being presented. They included TV and radio presenters Chris Tarrant, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Lizzie Cundy, Nick Ferrari, Rageh Omaar and Hardeep Singh Kohli.