{"id":606093,"date":"2025-12-01T22:14:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/606093\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T22:14:41","slug":"award-winning-birmingham-restaurant-inspire-pupils-with-cooking-session-at-city-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/606093\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-winning Birmingham restaurant inspire pupils with cooking session at city school"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famous Birmingham restaurant Asha’s returned to Selly Park Girls’ School<\/p>\n

20:05, 01 Dec 2025Updated 21:00, 01 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"TheThe pupils learnt from some ‘top chefs’<\/p>\n

Award-winning Birmingham restaurant Asha’s returned to Selly Park Girls’ School for a second year to deliver a hands-on cookery session to year 11 pupils.<\/p>\n

The event – which took place on Thursday, November 27 – was organised in partnership with Impact Food Group after last year’s success, with the aim to introduce young people to the world of hospitality.<\/p>\n

Director at Asha’s Nouman Farooqui said the team was eager to return, he said: “We wanted to do something to give back to the community, as a restaurant we can share our knowledge of food and running a successful hospitality business. It’s important to introduce the students to hospitality in case they want to pick that up as a career in the future.<\/p>\n

“Hospitality is a great way to kick-start a career, customer service is part of almost every business. If you’re dealing with clients or guests, a smile goes a long way – and we’re all about that”<\/p>\n

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Asha’s chefs kicked off the session with demonstrations of two dishes, Prawn 65 and Aloo tikki with chickpeas, before students recreated the dishes themselves.<\/p>\n

Nouman added: “The feedback was great, I’ve been told some students even took the recipes home and cooked the dishes for their families.<\/p>\n

“We will be doing these classes more often, we will try to make more time for this because it feels very rewarding and it feels like we\u2019re doing something very productive. Giving back to the community is very important to us, it\u2019s our way to say thank you to people who have supported us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AA cookery demonstration was held at Selly Park Girls School<\/p>\n

Miss Stott, Head of Technology, said the pupils have been looking forward to this day. She added: “We\u2019re really grateful to have Asha\u2019s back here again for our year 11 pupils, it\u2019s a great experience and we\u2019re really hopeful that they can use what they learn today in their coursework.”<\/p>\n

Ben Massey Senior Operational Manager at Impact Food Group, praised the ongoing partnership and said: “I just wanted to say a massive thank you to team Asha\u2019s for coming at Sally Park, second year running this event and it\u2019s such a fantastic added value opportunity for the students here.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s great for the students to have some first hand opportunity to work with the restaurant, seeing hospitality and show them the career routes that are available to them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famous Birmingham restaurant Asha’s returned to Selly Park Girls’ School 20:05, 01 Dec 2025Updated 21:00, 01 Dec 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":606094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,10314,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-606093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-birmingham-restaurants","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115646619920027613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/606094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}