Popular Leith restaurant Sabzi denied extended opening hours calls on council to 'give a small business a break'

Owners of Sabzi, meaning hot dish, saw their emerging business boom in the last year after they turned a Punjabi weekend pop-up into a permanent restaurant dishing up home-cooked spicy grub.

The vibrant Ferry Road eatery run by the Singh family applied to extend its hours from 8pm to 11pm but the council’s planning committee denied the variation to its planning conditions.