Southall’s Brilliant Restaurant, which is owned and run by Gulu Anand, his son Shanker and his daughter Dipna, has just won an ITV award for the best family-run restaurant.
Speaking to local media Dipna describes her father as feeling "incredibly proud" of how well the restaurant has done.
She also described how her late uncle Kewal Anand, who started the restaurant with Gulu, would be "pleased to see" how far they have come.
Now a huge part of running the restaurant as well as a success in her own right with two published books, Dipna said she's always been inspired by her father.
Speaking to reporters Dipna said: "My father took an extra keen interest in the cooking side of things, so my grandfather passed a lot of his recipes on to him.
“There was a political issue in Kenya at the time so my family migrated to London and my dad and his brother opened the first Brilliant restaurant here in Southall in 1975."
"We tried to make ourselves useful, I remember stacking bottles, doing the table cloths, setting the tables, and talking to customers.
“I was only nine or ten but I used to see the way my dad was interacting with customers, running around in front and back of house. He's the same today, like a machine that never stops.
"I've always aspired to be like dad. When I look at him sometimes I'm put to shame because my brother and I will be sitting down, tired, but he'll still be going."
She continued to talk about how people often ask them about the secret to Brilliant's success and admits her answer is the same as her father's - that it’s a family business.
Asked why the Anand brothers chose Southall, Dipna said she believes it was because of the small Indian community that was forming there, near to Heathrow. The community that is now huge in Southall.
Dipna's grandfather started the first Brilliant Restaurant, Nightclub and Hotel in Kenya, Nairobi in the 1950s and it was "very much a family affair".
Her mother and father got married a few years later and, because her mother used to help out in the restaurant, Dipna and her brother used to spend a lot of time there as children.
Speaking about her own success Dipna said that she did her vocational qualification in Hospitality and Catering at the University of West London and believes that was where her cooking dreams really began.
She said: "While I was doing the Masters I was asked if I could start teaching Indian cooking at the university. So then I did the necessary training and before I knew it I was teaching Indian cuisine at the university where I was studying for my Masters.
"That's where I knew that my love of cooking was getting stronger, and I've not stopped since then. I still do guest lectures at the university and then I obviously opened my cookery school at the restaurant.
“A lot of what I learned in hospitality and catering was from the university. That's where my dream started and where it first became a reality.”
