Pan-Asian restaurant chain Dim T will float on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) early next month to raise £1.75m to fund expansion.

Ask founders and Dim T backers Adam and Sam Kaye are to become directors of the company, which will be run by chief executive Jonny Plant.

Dim T, which will trade under the banner of Tasty once listed, currently has sites in London's Hampstead, Highgate and Charlotte Street.

It will open a fourth restaurant in Kent's Tunbridge Wells in July and plans to have at least six units operating by the end of the year.