Asha Bhosle has passed away at the age of 92 in Mumbai and has left behind a legacy that spans generations. She was a playback singer who gave multiple hit musical numbers in films and even released numerous
solo albums and singles. The singer has recorded over 13,000 songs in her eight-decade career.
And while everyone knows her for her music and amazing saree collection, did you know that the Yeh Vaada Raha and Tere Pyar Ka Tohfa singer owns a chain of restaurants across the Middle East and in the UK?
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Called Asha’s, the restaurant has locations in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and
Birmingham. The award-winning restaurant serves up North-West Indian cuisine with an elegant ambience.
She opened her first restaurant in WAFI, Dubai, in 2002 to bring her second great passion to life – sharing Indian food crafted with authenticity and care with the world. Over the past two decades, she has expanded the business and now has a chain of restaurants in the UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi), the Gulf region (Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar) and the UK (Birmingham, Manchester). According to Economic Times, late singer Asha Bhosle’s net worth in 2026 is estimated to be around Rs 100 crore, placing her among the top 10 richest female singers in India.
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Asha’s is rooted in Indian traditional cooking yet elevated for the modern fine dining guest. The menu is built on a list of signature recipes of the singer that she has been cooking in her own kitchen and has been passed down in the family.
Some of the most popular offering on the menu are chicken tikka, butter chicken, chicken keema, Muscat gosht, kebabs, biryanis, along with signature items such as chilli garlic chicken/paneer.
In a previous interview, the singer, like several Indian mums, confessed that she doesn’t necessarily always follow a recipe when she is in the kitchen. Instead, she said that she ‘cooks with feelings’, basing the ingredients and the amounts to add to a dish on what feels and tastes right in the moment. So when creating the menu for her restaurants, she had to note down the amount of ingredients that went into each of her dishes so that she could offer her signature recipes in Asha’s.
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The restaurant has been visited by many celebrities, including actor Amitabh Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Tom Cruise, Ed Sheeran, Pink, and more. They have all raved about the food and the legend herself.
For Asha Bhosle, she had created a menu in the restaurant that will appeal to her fans and celebrities, while also giving them an insight into her foodie side, and she said, “I had a magical childhood, moving from town to town with my father’s travelling theatre company. ‘The Company’ would always sit down to a meal together. I used to love roaming around the kitchen among the cauldrons of steaming food, but more than anything, I enjoyed seeing the joy on the diners’ faces as they savoured the tasty delights. This is where my love of cooking began.”
The singer has an entire page of the menu that focuses on lassis and has even added interesting tid-bits for a selection of dishes. Among the appetisers is Bhatti ka Chaap and she said, “Movie mogul brothers BR & Yash Chopra threw culinary parties & I had the pleasure of attending some of these. This tandoori offering is from their kitchen with my additions.”
