Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna has partnered with chef-powered meal delivery platform CookUnity to launch a new collection of chef-curated meals, expanding access to his brand of Indian home cooking for customers across the United States. Khanna is one of three renowned chefs unveiled in CookUnity's latest lineup, joining James Beard Award-winning Italian-American chef Rocco DiSpirito and celebrated Israeli-American chef Michael Solomonov.
“CookUnity was built to give the world's best chefs the ability to scale their craft and cooking without ever giving up what makes it extraordinary,” said Mateo Marietti, CEO and co-founder of CookUnity, announcing the new menus. The platform, founded in 2015, now works with more than 130 chefs — including James Beard Award winners and Michelin-starred talent — and serves more than 250,000 customers each week, having closed 2025 with over $750 million in annual recurring revenue.
Khanna's menu draws directly from his acclaimed New York restaurant, Bungalow, and from his upbringing in Amritsar, India, translating dishes shaped by decades of elevating Indian cuisine on the global stage into a format designed for weekly home delivery. The initial lineup includes roasted butter chicken, paneer makhani, aloo gobi and Kerala-style fish moilee — a spread that spans North Indian richness and South Indian coastal flavour, and that emphasises premium ingredients and layered spice work rather than a simplified, mass-market approximation of Indian food.
“We share in our commitment to ingredient sourcing and how every detail of the process matters,” Khanna said of the partnership. “That's a huge reason why I felt like this was the right time to partner — and be able to bring the experience of our cooking and feel at home, whether they're near or far.” Each dish on his CookUnity menu was personally selected by Khanna, with the stated goal of offering diners the nostalgic warmth and hospitality associated with Bungalow, while preserving the best-in-class ingredients and layered-spice technique that has defined his career — one that includes a Michelin star, cookbook authorship, television hosting credits, and, most recently, a place on TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2026 list.
For CookUnity, the collaboration continues a strategy of pairing acclaimed chefs with infrastructure most independent restaurateurs cannot build alone — sourcing, preparation, packaging and nationwide delivery — allowing chefs to reach far beyond the geographic and reservation-based limits of a single restaurant. CookUnity has separately expanded its footprint this year through a partnership with the New York Yankees as the team's official meal-delivery partner and by marking one year of operations in Canada, underscoring the platform's broader growth trajectory even as it adds culinary star power to its roster.
The partnership carries particular significance for the visibility of Indian cuisine within America's fast-growing chef-led delivery sector, a space historically dominated by Italian, American and, increasingly, broader Mediterranean and Middle Eastern offerings. Khanna's inclusion alongside DiSpirito and Solomonov places Indian home cooking on equal footing with two of the most recognised culinary traditions in American chef-driven dining, at a moment when demand for authentic, chef-crafted Indian food continues to expand well beyond the country's traditional Indian-restaurant strongholds in cities such as New York, Chicago and the Bay Area.
For the Indian diaspora in the US, the collaboration also reflects a broader pattern: Indian-American chefs increasingly leveraging national platforms — delivery services, streaming platforms, cookbook deals — to bring regionally specific Indian cooking, rather than a homogenised version of it, directly into American households. Khanna's CookUnity meals, spanning Punjabi classics from his Amritsar upbringing to Kerala-style seafood, are now available to CookUnity customers nationwide, offering diners a chef-curated route into Indian cuisine without the need for a reservation, a flight to New York, or a trip to Bungalow itself.
Khanna's career trajectory has long been defined by a deliberate effort to position Indian cuisine within the same rarefied culinary conversation traditionally reserved for French, Italian and Japanese cooking in the US fine-dining establishment. Since opening Junoon in New York — the restaurant that earned him a Michelin star and helped redefine American perceptions of what modern Indian fine dining could look like — through to Bungalow and a prolific run of cookbooks and television work, Khanna has repeatedly sought mainstream American platforms capable of reaching audiences well beyond the country's existing base of Indian-restaurant regulars. His recent inclusion on TIME's 2026 list of the 100 Most Influential People reflects the extent to which that strategy has succeeded in elevating his personal profile alongside his cuisine's.
The CookUnity partnership extends that strategy into a distribution channel fundamentally different from anything in Khanna's earlier career: rather than diners travelling to a specific restaurant address, CookUnity's model brings his food directly into home kitchens nationwide through a subscription-style weekly delivery structure, at a price point and format designed for regular, everyday consumption rather than special-occasion dining. For a cuisine that has often struggled with a US perception gap between “takeout curry” and the layered, ingredient-intensive cooking Khanna and his peers actually practice, chef-curated meal-delivery platforms offer a potentially powerful middle path — preserving culinary authenticity and technique while meeting American consumers where much of their actual weekly eating now happens: at home, ordered in advance, and prepared by someone other than themselves.
CookUnity's own growth trajectory reinforces the scale of that opportunity. Having closed 2025 with more than $750 million in annual recurring revenue and expanded into partnerships spanning professional sports — including its recent designation as the New York Yankees' official meal-delivery partner — and international markets including Canada, the platform has established itself as one of the most significant distribution channels available to chefs seeking to scale a personal culinary brand without opening additional physical restaurant locations. Khanna's decision to join that roster alongside DiSpirito and Solomonov places Indian cuisine, and by extension a meaningful segment of Indian-American culinary entrepreneurship, directly inside one of the fastest-growing channels in American food retail.
For CookUnity's largely coastal, urban customer base, the addition of an Indian menu built around a chef of Khanna's stature also expands the range of “occasion” dining the platform can credibly offer on a weekly basis — positioning Bungalow-inspired butter chicken and fish moilee alongside DiSpirito's Italian-American comfort food and Solomonov's modern Israeli cooking as equally valid choices for a weeknight meal, rather than treating Indian food as a separate, lower-tier category within the platform's broader culinary offering. That framing, subtle as it may seem, matters for how mainstream American diners continue to recalibrate their expectations of what a chef-quality Indian meal looks like, tastes like and costs — expectations Khanna has spent much of his career working to reshape, one restaurant, cookbook and now delivery platform at a time.
