Highlights
- Veeraswamy is celebrating 100 years since opening on Regent Street in March 1926.
- The restaurant's owners marched to Buckingham Palace with a 20,000-strong petition asking King Charles III to intervene.
- A court hearing over the restaurant's lease is expected towards the end of June.
Co-owners Ranjit Mathrani and sisters Namita and Camellia Panjabi said: "If Veeraswamy can survive the Blitz, surely it can succeed in overturning an ill-considered redevelopment."
The three owners behind MW Eat, which runs the restaurant, recently walked to Buckingham Palace with staff carrying a petition of over 20,000 signatures asking King Charles III to step in and help.
A court hearing is expected at the end of June but the owners say going to court was their last option. Mathrani said the landlord had been "completely uncaring" and turned down every solution put forward.
The restaurant's lease ran out at the end of June last year leading to the legal fight under MW Eat's protected tenancy rights.
A number of centenary events are taking place this month but staff remain worried about their jobs and the very real chance that one of London's most cherished restaurants could be lost forever.
