Spice is right! Famed brand back in Leeds

The business is being rebranded from Chandelier back to Mumtaz.

A boss of a leading Yorkshire food group believes its move back into Leeds marks another step in the growth of the city's waterfront into a vibrant place to do business.

Mumtaz, the £25m-a-year turnover Bradford-based restaurant and ready meals company, has reopened at Leeds Dock after setting up there in 2009 only to transfer to third-party management three years later.

Its Leeds director, Rab Nawaz, said the economic downturn hit the restaurant and the waterfront hard the first time around, but now the area’s fortunes had been transformed. An upturn in the business trade is already evident, and the waterfront feels much busier, with companies moving in and apartments occupied.