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Three generations, one Gujarati kitchen.
Prashad began in 1992, when Kaushy and Mohan Patel opened a sweet shop and kitchen in Bradford. Kaushy cooked the food she grew up with — Gujarati, vegetarian, learned at home and handed down through the generations. Word travelled. What started as a counter became a destination.
In 2012 the family took on an old pub on Whitehall Road in Drighlington and made it their own: an intimate, vibrant dining room where a West Yorkshire boozer used to be. The address changed; the cooking didn't.
“We cook the food we eat at home. Nothing on the menu is here to impress — it's here because it's what the family makes.” The Patel family, Prashad
Recognised, but still a family table.
Prashad is one of only two restaurants in the whole of Yorkshire to hold a Michelin Bib Gourmand, alongside two AA Rosettes and a long-running place at the top of Tripadvisor in Drighlington. The family reached a national audience as finalists on Gordon Ramsay's The F Word, and again with Kaushy's cookbook, Prashad: Indian Vegetarian Cooking.
The accolades matter less than what stays the same: everything vegetarian, much of it vegan, cooked from scratch by people who'd serve it to their own.
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