Mo Khan owner of the Bilash, Wolverhampton, explains the success of his restaurant.

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00:00Hello I'm James Wormerowicz and I'm sat inside one of the best restaurants in

00:04Wolverhampton. Don't just take my word for it, it's actually been given

00:07acknowledgement by the AA. It's got its second rosette. This is the Bilash, it's a

00:11very high standard Indian restaurant which for three decades and more has

00:17been serving the people of Wolverhampton and beyond. I'm sat here with the

00:21manager and owner Mo Khan who you've obviously had some very good news

00:26recently. We have, yeah. Morning to you everyone viewing. Thank you James for

00:31coming along, appreciate it. Yeah we've been acknowledged as having our second

00:36rosette on the AA guide which has been a fantastic achievement. Being in the guide

00:40since I think early part of 2012, 2013, receiving our second rosette for 2024, 25

00:49has been a great achievement and we can only thank everyone who's dined with us

00:53over the last 45 years being here. I'm grateful for my father setting the

01:00business up to put a foundation on for us and to be able to serve and cook for

01:08everyone who comes in here. And what's been the process for getting the second

01:12rosette? The process is very very strict. We're audited several times a year by

01:21the judges who work independently for the AA and other guides. They come, they dine

01:30after they've paid the bill because nothing's free or complimentary. They show us who they

01:37are, identify themselves. They have a quick tour of the kitchen, of how our

01:41hygiene standards are, how the overall restaurant is, how if the service has been good they'll

01:47tell us there and there. If the food has been good we return in the guide. But the

01:52end be only we are only informed if we've received the rosette when the actual

01:56plaque comes through the post. And these aren't awards that you can go for these

02:00are people who actually have to come to you and do that for you. Yeah absolutely so

02:02these are awards that you pay and go and host. It's a very very exclusive as you

02:09probably well know. The AA guide is an international guide for international

02:14restaurants. The reason hence these are quite exclusive so they're not something

02:19that you need to pay to go on. And so you've won this, you've been given this

02:24award again, you've had other awards in the past like the Michelin guide and

02:27other some of the some of the other big guides. I suppose in a way you look at

02:31what's happened in the past and you're very thankful for that but you've also got

02:34plans for the future as well. We have you know the future plans are to do what we

02:39do. We always engage in creating new dishes. Menus are always produced seasonally.

02:45We try and change our menu at least twice a year minimum. So when judges do come

02:51they see a different menu. And the menu consists of what we do. Our menu is very

02:56short and simple. When I say simple it's very sophisticated on what we what we

03:00cook and what we serve. And ultimately is that the the whole sort of modus operandi

03:06of the Beelash to give you a high quality dining experience? A hundred percent. We

03:10want people to come here to experience what fine Bangladeshi Indian cuisine is

03:14and to walk away with here thinking you know what we've had a taste of

03:18Bangladesh on the plate. And I know you said it at the beginning and you sort of

03:22thanks everyone but it's because of the support of the people over the years that

03:26this place is still as successful as it is. A hundred percent. It's been very

03:29challenging but thankfully we have tremendous support from the local

03:34community, the local businesses who keep us going. The reason hence why we're here

03:39for such a long time and may continue.

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