Indian Chef, Vikas Khanna has another feather on his hat. He has received the Michelin 2024 Bib Gourmand Award for Bungalow, which is the name of his restaurant in New York. It was his sister who had helped Vikas to create the famous restaurant. However, do you know that before Vikas' sister, Radhika passed away, she had made the chef take a promise?
Chef Vikas Khanna has always credited his late sister, Radhika for the success of his restaurant, Bungalow, to his sister, Radhika. During an interview with CNN, he remembered that his sister took him to a luxurious restaurant in 2003. She had the hope that the chef would come and meet her brother. However, they were shooed away and told that the chef only met those who ordered, "tasting menus". Post leaving the place, Vikas cheered his sister, but he had failed. When she was on her deathbed, she made him take a promise from her to never have qualities like that chef. Talking about the same Vikas said:
“We had great food in that restaurant, but we were made to feel less. 'Un-restaurant' yourself. She taught me… not my degrees and my Michelin stars, or what I was wearing on my head… She taught me a whole new perspective on a restaurant."
Vikas also shared that his sister, Radhika, wanted him to greet everyone warmly like a cook and never like a chef. She also made him ponder that restaurant was never about a food business and realized that he can alleviate people out of their pain.
Going ahead in the same interview, Vikas revealed that his sister, Radhika , would always celebrate his milestones and would fondly call him "Mera Sher". He also shared that most of the artefacts in his restaurant were approved and commissioned by Radhika when she was on her deathbed. It was in 2022 when Vikas lost his sister, who had been fighting Lupus for many years. She was an author, entrepreneur and also a fashion designer.
Vikas, in the interview, also revealed that he was unsure if Bungalow would be a successful restaurant or a big one. Vikas fondly calls his restaurant as "baby" and said that Bungalow is like his daughter. He said:
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"I have a very clear definition of the gender of this restaurant. This restaurant was born as a female, it will live as a female."
Vikas had come on Ranveer Allahbadia's show and revealed his last emotional moment with his sister. He shared that he knew Radhika was unwell, and he was in the ICU next to her. The nurse had told him not to leave as the visiting hours did not imply for him. He had shouted at her as he knew that his sister was on her deathbed. Vikas said:
“The nurse told me that visiting hours do not apply to you. It was my biggest fear. When they say visiting hours do not apply to you it means the patients has few hours or minutes. .. That was my worst fear, I can't get over it."
What do you think of Vikas Khanna's sister, Radhika's promise that she made him take?
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