Owner, Chef Mohammed Aslam MBE

Born in Pakistan 3rd February 1953. He is married with 5 children and now lives in Bradford Career : Came to UK in 1970 and became a bus driver then started work for Aagrah Group of restaurants and his older brother Mohammed Sabir MBE in 1977. Has Basic Food Hygiene Certificate and has appeared many times on TV and in Cookery Demonstrations. He is married with 5 children and now lives in Bradford. Has won numerous awards including International Indian Chef of the Year. Now Managing Director of an ever growing group of restaurants the latest of which opened in December 2007 in Sheffield "Best in Britain" (BIBA) Group of the Year 1998, 2002, 2003. Named "Best Restaurant Group" in British Curry Awards 2007. Named in BIBA Top30 every year since 1997. In 2007 ran a series of cookery demonstrations in association with Yorkshire Post Newspapers and Tiger Beer UK Ltd. Organises annual Charity fundraiser and in 2007 the total raised through sponsorship, ticket sales and the proceedings from the evening was £51,000. The main beneficiary for the evening was Leeds Mencap and other benefactors were Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital and Bolling Special School. . With 11 restaurants Aagrah is now developing Midpoint Suite in the Gallagher Leisure Park, Pudsey to be a state of the art conference, exhibition and banqueting centre opening in February 2009 at the cost of £3m. Awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours in 2009/10 for services to catering and community.