Kebabish Curry House

Located in George Street in the heart of Oban, a short walk from the railway and bus station, Kebabish Curry House is one of the most recent healthyliving award winners. This award-winning takeaway is the only Pakistani/Indian takeaway to hold the healthyliving award, and one of only two takeaway businesses currently holding the award.

The owner, Mr Shaukat Chaudhry, and co-owner, Mr Hashmat Ali, were first made aware of the healthyliving award following the achievement of another prestigious award for food hygiene, the Eat Safe Award.

Not content with holding an Eat Safe Award and the Best Takeaway Award, Scottish Curry Awards for 2012 and 2013, they thought the healthyliving award would be a good opportunity to make a difference in their community.

Mr Chaudhry explained that the ethos and criteria for the award was in keeping with many of the catering practices they already undertook, so it was not especially difficult for him to make the changes required to meet the award guidelines.

‘My Brother, Hashmat Ali, co-owner and in charge of preparation and cooking, always makes sure he cooks and serves the best quality, healthy and hygienic food he can to all our customers.’

The takeaway serves mouth-watering menu ranges, including classical dishes from India and Pakistan, with meats often being slow cooked or clay baked using locally sourced ingredients.

Of course, some small changes did need to be made to ensure customers were offered a healthier dish, including changing his cheese to a lower fat mozzarella, using only low-fat yoghurt and changing naan bread to a healthier chapatti.

Keen to ensure that his customers understood what this meant to them, Mr Chaudhry has been proactive in communicating these healthier catering practices and ingredients to his customers using bright and eye-catching posters in the windows.

Mr Chaudhry hopes that achieving the healthyliving award will be good for business and his customers. He explained:

‘I have advertised in the local press and on our Facebook page explaining what we have been doing and what changes we have made to ensure our food is healthier. There is great interest in this from our customers. People are interested to know the products we are using and are keen to buy healthier food.

‘Providing healthy food with high standards of food hygiene is important. I am optimistic that this will benefit the business and the community.’

If you live near the Oban area, why not visit this multi-award-winning business?
www.kebabishcurryhouse.com

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