About East India Company

In the early 1970s, newcomers to Canada, Kamal and Sudha Mehra, opened their first restaurant, Mehra’s Delicatessen, on McDermot Avenue across from Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre. The couple served a host of deli sandwiches. Kamal’s mother, Usha Mehra, immigrated to Canada a year later, and the family founded Winnipeg’s first North Indian restaurant, India Gardens, featuring all of Mrs. Mehra’s original recipes and Winnipeg’s first five-star buffet. Over the years, Kamal and Sudha Mehra enamoured thousands of diners with those dishes. In 1994, the Mehras decided to expand, and opened their York Avenue location in Winnipeg, naming it East India Company. Their dedication to South Asian cuisine and culture, through the legacy they created, was felt both locally and nationally. Today, Sudha Mehra and her children carry forward this legacy of cuisine through three five-star restaurants in Winnipeg and Ottawa and a nationaly sold line of authentic south asian simmer sauces.

Over the last fifty years, The East India Company have established themselves as providing exceptional south Asian dining experiences. be it at home or in one of their dining rooms. Their Garam Masala — a fine blend of spices roasted and ground to make the base to their most classic and flavourful curries — is a Mehra family recipe that dates back five generations and distinguishes their sauces from all others. Their chefs have been trained personally by Kamal and Sudha Mehra. It is their commitment to providing outstanding North Indian dishes.

We take pride in their strong, family-centered management team and are officialy a Woman certified Businesse.  Sudha Mehra oversees the operations of all locations, and is based in Winnipeg. She has passed on her decades of experience and knowledge to her children, who have carried on the family’s passion for hospitality and fine Indian cuisine.