Would you like to refine your cooking skills and rustle up a fantastical feast, with professional guidance and expertise?
Around Ealing has teamed up with Brilliant Gastro in Southall to offer one lucky reader the chance to win the ‘Tikka Fantasy’ cooking experience with celebrity chef and author Dipna Anand.
Dipna opened her latest restaurant in Southall’s Green Quarter, Parkside Yards, in the spring. She and her family have been cooking for visitors and residents for more than 5 decades and were proud owners of the original Brilliant restaurant, in Southall. Diners even included King Charles, who was Prince of Wales at the time.
But the favourite Punjabi classics live on in Dipna’s new culinary venture, alongside inventive Indian gastro dishes.
She said: “This gastropub is my personal take on the flavours I love—a fusion of my Punjabi roots and modern influences. We’re bringing something completely fresh to Southall’s dining scene.”
Diners might like to try the chicken biryani arancini, fiery dynamite wings or the banging chicken tikka burger. For grill lovers, there’s the show-stopping ‘smoking’ robata chop and charred spiced cauliflower steak. Want the full Dipna experience? Try Dipna’s special meat feast thali or the vegetarian thali, a spread of her most-loved dishes.
If you’ve still got room, you can satisfy your sweet tooth with the cardamom-infused sticky toffee pudding, a decadent gulab jamun bomb, or a zesty spiced mandarin cheesecake.
Or, you might like to have a go at making some of this yourself…
Cooking with Dipna
That’s because Dipna has also relocated her renowned cookery school to this new site. Whether you’re an aspiring chef or just love experimenting in the kitchen, you can learn directly from the expert. Visit the restaurant’s website for more information on the courses available.
The prize
You could be in with a chance to win a 3-hour ‘Tikka Fantasy’ cooking experience with Dipna on Saturday 8 November.
The winner will be part of a small group being guided through how to perfect their favourite dishes as well as how to balance spices, key techniques and methods of the cuisine and the insights of Indian cooking.
You will get to take home and enjoy all the dishes you cook.
How to enter
Enter our competition by correctly answering a simple question.
Question: for how many decades has Dipna and her family been shaping Southall’s food scene?
Email your entry to aroundealing@ealing.gov.uk by 11.59pm on Sunday 19 October 2025. Please add ‘TIKKA FANTASY’ in the subject line of your entry email to make sure your entry is in with a chance and include your postal address.
Terms and conditions
After the deadline has passed, the winner will be digitally selected at random, before being contacted. Only the winner will be notified. If the winner does not respond within 2 weeks, or a similar term deemed reasonable/appropriate to the competition prize, a new winner might be drawn at random instead and awarded the prize.
Your contact details will be used for the purpose of administering the competition and contacting the winner to notify them of the prize. And, if you are the winner, we may also need to pass them on to the organisation/company/individual that is due to provide you with the prize in order for you to claim it.
The entry deadline and the random selection of the winner is final and binding in all respects on all entrants. No correspondence will be entered into.
Entries that do not comply in full with these entry terms and conditions may be disqualified. If the winning entry is disqualified for any reason, the council reserves the right to award the prize to another entrant.
There is no cash alternative to the prize. The council does not accept any liability on behalf of any third party supplying the prize. Some terms and conditions of the third party supplier may also apply to the prize.
Entrants will be deemed to have accepted these terms and conditions by entering this competition.
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