Business Soars At Small-Town Curry House In UK After Ryan Reynolds Praises It For Serving The "Best Indian Food In Europe"

Ryan Reynolds has brought a lot of business to a curry house in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire after he says it serves "the best Indian food in Europe”.

Reynolds, 45, shared the flier for the family-owned eatery Light of India to his 44.8 million Instagram followers over the weekend after he ate there while in nearby Wrexham to see the National League football club he co-owns beat Maidstone United 5-0.

In the post, Reynolds gushed to his fans: “Best Indian food in Europe.”
 

Funny thing is, the owners had no idea who Reynolds was.

The son of owners Rahaman Batan, 51, and Raija Rahaman, 48, said when he and sister Rushmeen, 29, highlighted his post to their parents they confessed they were clueless he was famous and asked “Who is he?”

But since the post, the restaurant's phone has “rang off the hook”, with walk-ins and online orders spiking.
The owners’ son Shaa, 28, told Daily Mail about booking soaring since Reynolds' post: “The past two days have been really busy, it’s been mental, the phone hasn’t stopped ringing.

“My grandfather first owned the business in 1980 and it was passed down to my father in 2010, we've been around for 42 years, so the majority of people around here know us.

“But now so many more people know about us and we’ve had a lot of calls since the post.

“We’ve had more orders online and over the phone and we’ve had more people come and eat in.”

He added they don’t know if Reynolds ate in or got takeaway, but said they may now name a dish in honour of the Deadpool actor.

Shaa added: “We’re not going to rebrand the shop or anything based on his quote, but I’d love for him to come back and see what he ordered and have him in the restaurant in person.”

Reynolds is currently starring in Welcome to Wrexham, the Disney+ docu-series which follows his exploits as the co-owner of the Wrexham AFC.— BANG SHOWBIZ

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