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At 20, Vikram Vij left India for Austria, where he received his chef certificate from the Salzburg Hotel Management School. In 1989, Vikram moved to Canada to work at the Banff Springs Hotel in Alberta and the rest is culinary history. Now a certified sommelier and visionary restauranteur with three award-winning restaurants in the Vancouver area—Vij’s and My Shanti —Vikram has earned praise for his cuisine and numerous distinctions ranging from multiple culinary excellence awards to roles as a Canada 150 ambassador, a judge on Top Chef Canada and Chopped Canada, and the first Indo-Canadian Dragon on CBC’s Dragons’ Den.