We went to college, graduated, and did the whole corporate rat race thing for a few years in New York. So in high school, we wrote a business plan for the idea, (we actually won a small business competition!) and started dreaming about how cool it could be. Sooner or later, we started to realize it wasn't that all these friends didn't like Indian food - they just hadn't been introduced to it in an accessible and fun way before. So, we'd bring our friends to the restaurant, order for them, and to their surprise, without fail, they would fall for Indian cuisine. Over the years, we'd see these converts coming back for birthday celebrations, graduation dinners, and anniversaries. The food of our families had always been delicious, nutritious, and made with love. We'd hear stuff like "I don't like curry!" and "Isn't it all spicy?" on the reg, and it confused us because we knew curry just meant sauce and there's such diversity of flavor + heat profiles across India. Growing up with Bombay Bistro + Indique, we noticed that a lot of our friends either hadn't tried Indian food or had misperceptions about it. Old friends from their days back in India, they started working together at a local spot in DC, and in 1991, embarked on the shared adventure of opening their first restaurant together. A year before that, we entered the picture, and have been best friends ever since. Our fathers, hard-working immigrants, moved to this country back in 1985. You see, we were born into the restaurant industry. Our story starts back when we were just itty bitty little things.
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