Aug 7, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min · 21 segments
**Samir "Sammy" Haider joins The Judge Reviews Podcast to tell the remarkable story behind Annaya's Indian Restaurant.** From growing up in a family built on hospitality to helping lead one of…
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I thought, you know what, Allah's got a plan for me and it'll work out eventually.

I always say this to my friends, right? I don't think, us as like my generation, my friends and us, we could never do what our parents did, never mind what our grandparents did when they went through.

I think so, but there is obviously a few other places called deniers and I think there's a peri-peri chicken place.

A funny story about that, like there's been a couple of times where people have ordered food from them or us and
they've turned up at the wrong place, they've turned up.
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I thought, you know what, Allah's got a plan for me and it'll work out eventually.

I always say this to my friends, right? I don't think, us as like my generation, my friends and us, we could never do what our parents did, never mind what our grandparents did when they went through.

I think so, but there is obviously a few other places called deniers and I think there's a peri-peri chicken place.

A funny story about that, like there's been a couple of times where people have ordered food from them or us and
they've turned up at the wrong place, they've turned up.