The Curry House in Shrewsbury is about to open again after a fire.

Shropshire Star

The Curry House in Mardol, Shrewsbury has been shut for a number of weeks after a kitchen fire, but thankfully it is about to serve the town again from Monday.

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00:00 So we're here at the Curry House Shrewsbury and you've been out of business for a while.

00:04 Just fill us in on what happened there chap.

00:06 Yeah, so it's been over a month now.

00:09 I'd say the chip fire went on fire and it contained in the kitchen the whole fire and there was more smoke damage.

00:18 And the whole kitchen needed retraining and the electrics and gas pipes everything.

00:24 So we've had a lot of work done and new appliances etc and elbow grease cleaning with all my staff.

00:31 And their family as well, friends as well.

00:34 So it's been really hard for us and it was Ramadan as well for us and it's been very difficult.

00:40 And thanks to all our friends, people who've been helping us, our contractors, our neighbours, everybody.

00:46 The local community have been very helpful as well.

00:49 Oh that's good, that's good.

00:51 I mean because there's a few people you employ here isn't there?

00:53 So there's a lot of people rely on this place being open isn't there?

00:57 How many staff have you got here roughly?

00:59 Eleven.

01:00 Yeah?

01:01 Yeah.

01:01 And so are you back open now or when's the official date?

01:05 The official date is Monday.

01:07 Monday, yeah. All systems go for Monday.

01:09 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Looking forward to it.

01:10 You're looking forward to it.

01:12 You could do with a break, couldn't you? After all this, you know, having to get this sorted.

01:16 If you get back open, don't even need the money.

01:18 Yeah.

01:18 It costs a lot of money.

01:19 Yeah, yeah.

01:20 So brand spanking new bits of kit, all nicely cleaned up as we can see and ready to be fired up.

01:27 So the word on the street is get yourself down, Mardle, Shrewsbury, Monday onwards.

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