Tributes have been flooding in for a “pioneer of the Indian restaurant trade”, who has died aged 96.
Nasir Ali moved from Bangladesh to Salisbury, Wiltshire, in the 1960s and opened the city’s first Indian eatery called The Asia Restaurant.
Described as a “quiet pillar of the community,” the father of three was also the first Bangladeshi to buy a house in the city, and went on to help establish The Muslim Association of Salisbury.
His son Liton said: “Dad was part of the curry boom. What I really noticed was how much he’d spend time talking to the customers, and how much he cared.”
