A new restaurant due to open next month at a Victorian railway station will offer diners a taste of the British Raj in India.

The 1875 restaurant is the brainchild of Bradford entrepreneur Manjinder Singh Sarai, who launched Zsphera, an up-market coffee takeway, at Menston station in 2008.

He is now branching out with the 1875 Anglo-Indian restaurant, named after the year the station opened.

The new venue, which opens on Saturday, November 6, and will create six jobs, aims to serve what the owner describes as ‘gourmet dishes of the Empire’, based on the cuisine enjoyed by the Army officers of the British Raj.

Mr Sarai said he wanted to reflect the origins of the heritage of the award-winning Menston station which opened when Queen Victoria was Empress of India and the British Raj was at its peak.

The new restaurant will serve dishes prepared by top Indian chefs including Amit Kumar Mitra, who has worked as a personal chef to the King of Bhutan, and cooked for celebrities including Richard Gere, Steven Seagal, and Demi Moore.

Mr Sarai said: “After living in Mumbai for some time it has been my dream to bring the authentic taste of India to the UK.

“Our chefs are experienced in cuisine at the highest levels, and 1875 is going to put Yorkshire on the gastronomic map.”

The restaurant will open with a celebration of Diwaali , the Indian Festival of Lights, with the first-ever UK Indian Street Food Festival, followed by another UK first, an Anglo-Indian Christmas Feast from mid November.

Manjinder started his original coffee takeaway business in the former station buffet with support from Bradford Kickstart, the Council’s enterprise programme. Its popularity with commuters led him to develop the idea for a restaurant at the station, which is used by 400,000 commuters every year.

He said: “Our business model of providing a high-quality product coupled with excellent standards of customer service has proved a winner.”