A Bradford Indian restaurant has korma up with a rice little earner.

The Nawaab in Manor Row is spicing up cuisine in a holiday hot spot where its curries are flavour of the month.

For the restaurant, which once provided food for the late Diana, Princess of Wales, has opened an 80-seater branch on the seafront in Palma - Majorca's capital city.

And tourists and Majorcans alike are popadoming down to the far-flung outlet because they think nowhere else will vindaloo, according to co-owner Mahboob Hussain Junior.

The restaurant opened after Mr Hussain returned from a holiday in Majorca. He said: "I thought I could do better than the other restaurants because our food is more authentic and we have top quality chefs."

So, with the agreement of his business partners, including cousin Mahboob Hussain Senior, he opened the award-winning restaurant group's fourth outlet, and its first outside Britain.

"We have had such a good response that people coming to Majorca from Barcelona and Madrid are asking us whether we will open a restaurant in those places," he said.

"We tell people we are an Indian restaurant group from Britain's curry capital of Bradford. So we are promoting Bradford."

The Nawaab, which hit the headlines in 1996 when former Pakistan cricketer Imran Khan ordered a giant takeaway for a charity banquet in London attended by Princess Diana, has taken over the former Rajmas Tandoori Restaurant which looks out across the Mediterranean.

And the group, which already has eateries in Bradford, Manchester and Huddersfield, has shipped seven staff out to Palma and produced a menu in Spanish and English to attract tourists and natives.

Mr Hussain Junior added: "Cooking has always been my hobby, so we put my hobby into the business."

The company now employs a total of 60 full and part-time staff - all trained in Bradford. It also busses staff from its restaurant in Bradford to the biggest one in Manchester when it gets busy.

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