Owner, TV Chef Reza Mahammed

Career : Reza inherited the family restaurant, Star of India in London's Brompton Road 27 years ago when his father died suddenly. The restaurant oriniginally opened in 1956. It had never occurred to him to enter the restaurant business, but he turned The Star around. After a radical revamp, he introduced a modern menu, with lighter, fresher Indian cooking and brought in Chef Vineet Bhatia who later became a Michelin starred chef firstly at Zaika then at his own Rasoi Vineet Bhatia.. Over the years his passion for food has grown, and his cooking has received much praise. He found television fame when he filmed a TV series about his trip of a lifetime through California and Nevada in search of culinary wonders, United States of Reza. He has hosted various TV shows on UKTV Food and elsewhere including 'Delhi Belly' and C4's 'A Place in France'. The Observer Food Monthly described meeting Reza as "like being ambushed by a cross between Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and Freddie Mercury". Wrote Rice, Spice and All Things Nice, Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2007