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Island in mourning following sudden unexplained death of popular restaurant owner

Cafe Kisimul
Cafe Kisimul

Islanders are mourning the sudden death of a popular restaurant owner.

Rohail Bari ran the Indian restaurant Cafe Kisimul in Castlebay for years after moving to Barra with wife Pauline in 2002.

Mr Bari, 53, was discovered dead at his home on Barra on Monday.

Police are treating the death as unexplained until a postmortem examination can take place in Inverness, but there do not appear to be any suspicious circumstances.

The father-of-three had a local radio show and taught guitar to island children.

Mr Bari’s restaurant is renowned in the islands and beyond for its cuisine which blended Asian spices with local produce such as scallops, monkfish, beef and lamb.

Indeed the neighbouring islands of Tiree and Coll would regularly place takeaway orders to be delivered by CalMac ferry.

Staff would put the orders on the ferry at Barra, before they would travel three hours to Tiree and another hour to Coll. Mr Bari used to joke that his were the longest travelled takeaways in the world.

In 2010 Cafe Kisimul reached the final of the Tiffin Cup, a national competition where MPs nominate their favourite South Asian restaurants.

The restaurant was nominated by Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil, who described the curry as “the best in Scotland”.

The Kisimul is named after the MacNeil clan castle which sits in the bay just yards from the restaurant.

Mr Bari, from Glasgow, leaves three children, Fahira, 24, Harris, 21 and Adam, 17.

A police spokeswoman said: “At around 3.30pm on Monday June 15, police received a report of the sudden death of a 53 year-old man on the isle of Barra.

“Police are treating the death as unexplained pending the results of a post mortem examination. There does not appear to be any suspicious circumstances.”