DULOCH award-winning Bombay Brasserie restaurant is closing today (Saturday) after its rent doubled.

The Scottish Curry Awards winners plan to move menus, staff and decor to their Dunfermline sister restaurant the Royal Bengal.

Anis Miah, co-owner of Bombay Brasserie and the Royal Bengal, said, “We don’t want to put our prices up, so we cannot stay here with the rising cost of rent.

“We are very sad to be leaving Duloch, it is a fantastic community here, but we are looking at this not as a goodbye but a welcome to the Royal Bengal.

“The Bombay Brasserie was a real social hub in this area, we had people crying in the restaurant after hearing the news of our closure, so it is very sad.” Brothers Anis and Saj want to continue Bombay Brasserie’s community charity work and social hub feel as they move back to the Royal Bengal at 57 Pittencrieff Street.

Anis continued, “We now own it again and have big plans for the space. We want to renovate and build a function room upstairs in the restaurant and name it after our late cousin, Abed, who started the Bombay Brasserie but sadly died in 2012.

“We had a really tough time after losing Abed and worked really hard to make what he started a success – which we did.

“There is mixed emotions with the move because we are excited to be back in the Royal Bengal but we can’t thank the community of Duloch who supported us enough and we can only hope they will make the trip into Dunfermline to visit us.

“The move feels right, we all went off to university and studied all different degrees but we are all back where it started for us in Dunfermline and we look forward to being at the Royal Bengal.” The Bombay Brasserie will close today with plans for special offers and free treats before they pack up and move to the Royal Bengal.