Akbar's Balti Restaurant

Akbar's Restaurant was the dream of an 18-year-old boy, Shabir Hussain, who decided within six months of working in his 1st job that he wanted to open his own restaurant. He knew then, as early as 1988, that he was going to name it Akbar's. Heres why. Firstly, Akbar was the name of his father to whom he dedicates the restaurant. Secondly, Akbar is a name widely known by everybody from the Far East across Asia over the Middle East up to the Mediterranean, and now the North East, across Yorkshire and up to the Midlands. As a name which exemplifies Greatness or The Great.