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--> | restaurants = | prevrests = | television = | awards = | website = }} Cyrus Rustom Todiwala OBE, DL, (born 16 October 1956), is chef proprietor of ''Café Spice Namasté'' and a celebrity television chef. He trained at the Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces chain in India, and rose to become executive chef for eleven restaurants within those hotels. He moved to the UK in 1991 with his family, and after some initial financial difficulties after taking over a restaurant, Michael Gottlieb invested allowing Todiwala to open ''Café Spice Namasté'' in 1995, for which he is best known. He has subsequently launched a range of condiments and sauces called ''Mr Todiwala's'', and a second restaurant called ''Mr Todiwala's Kitchen'', which is located at Heathrow Airport. He was awarded an MBE in 2000, and an OBE in 2009. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate and been made an honorary professor. In 2012, he cooked for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. He has appeared on multiple television and radio shows. ==Biography== Born and brought up in Mumbai, India, he lived with his family in a house split into two flats. His father worked for the Automobile Association as Chief of Road Service for Western India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.masterchefs.co.uk/component/content/article/3/48-cyrus-todiwala )〕 While his uncle's family and his grandparents lived in one of the flats, his family lived in the other. The family had a large collection of animals including a lizard, ten squirrels, four parrots, two cockerels, some dogs and a crow who wouldn't leave. Todiwala graduated from Sophia Shree B K Somani Polytechnic having studied Hotel Administration & Food Technology.〔 His first job was as a busboy. He trained as a chef with Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces in India, eventually becoming Executive Chef for all of the chain's hotels in India, some eleven restaurants with 160 staff. He moved to Australia in 1991, but afterwards at the suggestion of a friend he moved to the United Kingdom with his family,〔 〕 having been invited to run a restaurant in Alie Street in London called ''Namasté'', which Todiwala describes as having been "pretty lousy".〔 The owners of the restaurant went into financial difficulty despite critical acclaim for Todiwala's work. Being faced with unemployment whilst on a work visa, he took over the restaurant with the help of his wife, Pervin. They became homeless following the takeover as the family's home was included as part of the agreement with the previous owners, and Cyrus found that he immediately went into financial difficulty having taken on the debts incurred by the previous owners.〔 With banks refusing to give him loans, he turned to family members to help support his restaurant.〔 They were given multiple small sums, but won a car in a competition and sold it, enabling them to place a deposit on a new home. However, the Home Office began to be interested in Todiwala's work, as he was a foreign business owner without any investors. They would require monthly updates on the restaurant, and gave requirements which the business had to fulfil but eventually required them to find investors in order to stay in business. At around the same time, Michael Gottlieb, the owner of 'Smolensky's' restaurants in London, wished to invest in a new Indian restaurant on E1's Prescott Street and approached The Cobra Good Curry Guide's ( website ) editor Pat Chapman seeking a chef. Chapman, who had first met Todiwala in Goa in 1982, knew of his problems and talents, and suggested that Cyrus was in the right place at the right time. ''Café Spice Namasté'' opened in 1995, although the Home Office would continue to pursue Todiwala for deportation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.london.gov.uk/cyrus-todiwala )〕〔 He has since worked with the National Health Service to create ethnic menus for hospitals alongside Lloyd Grossman and the London East Training and Enterprise Council to create an Asian and Oriental cooking school with an onsite restaurant so that students can be trained in a real working kitchen.〔〔 〕 However, the school closed after a few years following a change in funding.〔 〕 While he was facing threats of deportation from the Home Office, he was also on the National Advisory Council for Education and Training Targets alongside former Home Secretary David Blunkett.〔 In 2006, he opened Café’t’, a coffee shop / restaurant hybrid.〔 He launched a range of cooking sauces under the brand name ''Mr Todiwala's'' in 2010, which added to an existing range of pickles and chutneys. In 2011, he launched a new restaurant named ''Mr Todiwala's Kitchen'', which is located within the Hilton Hotel at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cafespice.co.uk/mr-todiwalas-kitchen/ )〕 He has appeared regularly at Taste Festivals, including those in London and in Dubai.〔 As part of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Todiwala cooked for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Kirishna Avanti school in Harrow. He cooked a version of Country Captain using rare breed mutton from North Ronaldsay in the Orkney Islands. The dish has since been added to the menu at Café Spice Namasté.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://cafespice.co.uk/menus/ala-carte/ )〕 In December 2014, after having established four premiere restaurants in London, Cyrus returned to India to establish The River Restaurant, his first restaurant in India,exclusively at the Acron Waterfront Resort in Baga, on the banks of the Baga river in Goa.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://acronwaterfrontresort.com/cyrus-todiwala-river-restaurant-goa.php )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.thecaterer.com/articles/354691/cyrus-todiwala-opens-his-first-restaurant-in-india )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cyrus Todiwala」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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