about us – the people behind tiffin

 

Abul Kalam "Tiiffin Proprietor"

Virtually born in an Indian restaurant, father being an Indian cafe proprietor in the 60s in the commercial Road (The Nisshan). I grew up in an Indian restaurant at a very early age, watching various chefs learning different styles of cooking from the Indian subcontinent. I became a chef/manager by trade. (KalamRestaurant, Wood Street, Walthamstow). Left the trade for a decade and went into running social clubs and then came back to what I was good at in 90s. In 1992 I then decided to open up Tiffin Restaurant, then became very successful. Tiffin has won many curry chef of the year awards and prepared three national finalists, which were Faruk Miah, Dinar Ahmed and Aaman Uddin. Tiffin has appeared in most best national food guides, working in with the motto "Freshness is goodness", achieving high standards. Also operated a dial a Tiffin service for the local and city workforce.

 

 

Dinar Ahmed & "Curry Chef of the year"

Dinar Ahmed originated from Bangladesh and grew
up in the main town of Sylhet. Dinar was brought to this country with his wife and in seek of employment, he then decided to get involved into the restaurant trade which he thought was the ideal job for him and he enjoyed it. Like all other employees Dinar had to work hard and started off from scratch and had to prove that he was doing the job properly, when the rotation period had come near by, others like Dinar had to learn all the necessary facts and techniques that the next job description had in stake. Year after year Dinar moved from one position to another and then finally reached what he had been working for, which was the position of the chef. Dinar has won curry chef of the year 1995/6 and also has always reached the final, which is to prove he is amongst a top few chefs in the country. Unlike other employees our chef has been working for us ever since the opening of Tiffin restaurant and he is a valuable token to us all and we hope he will stay employed at Tiffin for many other years to come. (We all call him Mr Hashim, as he regards himself as Mr Tiffin)

Fakhor Uddin (Musa) & "Exotic Chef"

Musa is our exotic chef and also originates from
Bangladesh from a village in Sylhet called Baghirghat, Gulabjonj. He came to the United Kingdom in 1998. After he had come from Bangladesh he was employed at the
Tiffin restaurant as a part time worker. Musa had to gain his position from bottom level in Bangladesh where he worked as a "Babursee" (which in Bengali means chef) Musa worked in many Islamic institutions and catering for the hungry Islamic scholars, which gave him skills to cook various exotic village dishes. He was then endorsed to a higher position and also designed an exotic menu for the Tiffin. While at Tiffin restaurant Musa had gained many new techniques and had also reached the main position, which was being an exotic chef. Our motto now having a chef like Musa, we can proudly say that "you ain't had a curry, until you've tried a Tiffin". Musa has thrived on freshness is goodness.
 

All our employees are valuable to us and Tiffin Restaurant had
reached its status by working as a team.

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