Ashok bajaj wiki

Indian-American restaurateur in Washington, DC

Ashok Bajaj is a restaurateur based in Washington, D.C.. He is head of the Knightsbridge Restaurant Group.

Biography

Bajaj was born in New Delhi. He left India in his early twenties,^[1] working in Sydney and in London, where he managed the Bombay Brasserie before moving the United States^[2] in 1988.^[3] He opened the Bombay Club, his first restaurant in Washington, in 1989 in his 20s, in initially working with an Australian partner, Norris Blanks, though the two parted ways after a year and a half.^[1] His restaurant group has since expanded and now includes Rasika, for which chef Vikram Sunderam won a 2014 James Beard Award.^[4] Sunderam and Bajaj met in London working together at the Bombay Brasserie.^[2] With Sunderam and chef and cookbook author David Hagedorn, Bajaj is co-author of the cookbook, Rasika: Flavors of India,^[5] published by the E