Curry may be the most popular food in Britain today that helped reshape the British culinary, but the first registered curry was started without fanfare. A soldier turned surgeon turned chef Mr Sake Dean Mohammed, a man from the then greater Bengal was the first to start a restaurant serving curry on March 15, 1810 on Portman square, London.

His venture in curry had been initially unsuccessful, but his legacy was not forgotten by his countrymen who followed his footsteps in trying their luck in the business of curry. However, at the aftermath of world war second a good number of Bengalese started living in UK permanently and curry houses saw the early growth in their hands. In the early 1950s there were more than 300 curry houses set up by Bengalese across UK and they felt the need of a platform to share their experiences and face the oddities collectively.

So BCA came into being on 3rd July, 1960 in London, when twenty men gathered at Friends International Centre, 32 Travistock` Place, London WC2 at the invitation of Mr Shirajul Islam alias Israil Miah to start an association that now represents 12,000 restaurants and takeaways in the UK curry industry and maintains the greatest activities, programs and benefits than any other organizations run by non-resident Bangladeshis anywhere in the world. At present, the industry employs more than 100,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi origin, with an estimated yearly turnover of £3.5 billion. Over the years BCA has established itself as the 'Pride of Bangladeshi Community'.