Grace Regan

Grace grew up cooking and eating Indian food, mainly thanks to her Great Aunt Dolly. When she was finally old-enough to visit India herself, she fell in love with the country, the people and the food. She has returned every year since, visiting the homes of generous hosts and learning as much as she can about Indian cooking from the true masters of the subject - home cooks. Grace owes everything she knows to these exceptionally talented people who have taken time to teach her their craft.

After a brief spell as a tech entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, Grace realised the ‘tech dream’ wasn’t for her and decided focus on her true passion - Indian food .

She came back to London, and turned her front door into a takeaway called

SpiceBox. Word quickly spread and she was asked to sell her famous curries at some of London’s top street food markets.

Grace spent the next few years slinging SpiceBoxes to hungry Londoners and festival-goers around the UK. But her dream was to open her very own curry house - drawing inspiration from both the British-Indian curry houses she grew up eating in, as well as the Indian home-cooking she had been so lucky to eat during her visits to Auntie Dolly’s and India.

Through a twist of fate and good luck, she met Alpesh, who had far more experience running restaurants than she did. With Alpesh now on-board, Grace decided to pack away the gazebo and welly boots and set up shop for real – the rest is spicy history.