Channel 4 has dropped the trailer for World’s Biggest Curry Restaurant, a fly-on-the-wall look at life behind the scenes of the Royal Nawaab, the much-hyped all-you-can-eat buffet that opened last year in Stockport Pyramid, the imposing Greater Manchester glass structure formerly known as the Co-op Bank Pyramid, and reportedly, as the title implies, the world’s biggest curry restaurant.
Filmed over six months by North West production company Salamanda Media, World’s Biggest Curry Restaurant will offer rare access inside “one of the UK’s largest and most opulent restaurant and events venues.”
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It follows the high-pressure daily operations of the picturesque restaurant, which serves thousands of diners each week alongside a packed calendar of weddings, corporate events and community gatherings.
As per the synopsis: “Serving up to 10,000 diners a week, hosting as many as nine weddings and events every weekend, this is the largest Pakistani Indian restaurant on the planet, rewriting the rulebook on how South Asian food is cooked, served and scaled.”
The production captures the scale of the operation in real time, from kitchen teams racing against demand to front-of-house staff managing large volumes of customers.
It also follows the events team handling complex wedding expectations, alongside a social media team working to attract a younger audience.
The landmark Stockport Pyramid underwent a reported £15 million transformation to host its new tenants, completed in April 2025, and the three-tiered venue now includes a 400-person banquet hall on the ground floor, alongside private dining rooms and larger event spaces capable of hosting up to 800 guests.
Manchester’s Salamanda was given access to the largest Pakistani Indian restaurant in the world as they “rewrite the rulebook on how South Asian food is cooked, served and scaled,” and creative director Sally Evans told Prolific North last week: “We knew it was big, but I don’t think any of us fully appreciated quite how huge the operation was until we were inside filming. The sheer scale of it is genuinely astonishing.”
World’s Biggest Curry Restaurant airs at 8pm this Friday (May 22nd) on Channel 4 and on demand.
