Ryan Tham is a restaurant owner in Mumbai, India. He is the ex-husband of Indian actress Minissha Lamba.
Wiki/Biography
Ryan Tham was born on Sunday, April 18, 1982 (39 years old; as of 2021) and his birthplace is Mumbai. His star sign is Aries. He attended GD Somani Memorial School and Human Resources College in Mumbai and completed his schooling. After that, he moved to Griffith University in Australia to pursue a degree in Business and Restaurant Management (2004). Ryan grew up in a family of top restaurateurs and wanted to run his own restaurant since he was a teenager. After Ryan returned from Australia, his grandfather’s Mandarin restaurant, which had been run for 45 years, closed (2003) and his father Henry was opening a fine dining restaurant bar at the original location. The restaurant opened in 2005 and was called “Henry Tham”. Ryan suggested to his father to add a bar to the “Henry Tham” restaurant, an idea that was imported from Australia.
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 7″
Hair color: Black
Eye color: dark brown
family
Parents and siblings
Ryan Tham’s father Henry Tham is a restaurant owner. His mother’s name is Ashita Tham (Bengali). He has a younger brother Keenan Tham, who is also a restaurant owner. His brother Keenan’s wife Neha Tham is the owner of Pause Fashion, a women’s clothing store in Mumbai.
Ryan Tham with his father and brother
Ryan Tham and his brothers
Ryan Tham and family
His grandfather, Mon Yiu Tham, was a restaurateur who founded two of the oldest Chinese restaurants in Mumbai (Mandarin and Kamling). His maternal grandfather, Laxmichand Gupta, was a businessman. His maternal grandmother is named Reba Gupta.
wife
Ryan married Indian actress Minissha Lamba in a private wedding on July 6, 2015. The two divorced in 2020.
Ryan Tham’s wedding photos
Ryan Tham and his wife
other relatives
Famous Indian film actor Kabir Bedi is his uncle, the late Indian classical dancer Protima Bedi is his aunt, and actress and talk show host Pooja Bedi is Ryan’s cousin.
Kabir Bedia
Protima Bedi
Ryan Tham and Pooja Bedi
Race
Ryan Tham is half Chinese and half Bangladeshi. His father is Chinese and his mother is Bangladeshi.
Profession
Ryan started his career in 2004 while helping out at his father’s restaurant ‘Henry Tham’. In 2010, Ryan and his brother closed Henry Tham and opened the nightclub ‘Trilogy’ at Hotel Sea Princess in Juhu. The restaurant closed in 2017. In an interview, Ryan said about Trilogy:
“Most festivals have a pre-party and an after-party there. Nightclubs usually last two or three years. Our goal was to last three New Years; we did seven.”
Ryan and his brother Keenan started Pebble Street Hospitality with four friends from GD Somani Memorial School in 2014. The company’s first restaurant was The Good Wife, a modern European gastropub in Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla complex.
Photos of The Good Wife in Mumbai
Their next restaurant opening was “Koko” (which means “big brother” in Chinese), an Asian-themed gastropub in Kamala Mills (opened in 2016).
Koko by Ryan Tham
Pebble Street Hospitality also includes the Asian bistro ‘Foo’ in Lower Parel, Mumbai.
Ryan Tham’s Foo Restaurant in Mumbai
Favorite things
- Food: Lamb curry with rice and pickle
- Quote: “Friends are more important than money. Almost everything money can do, friends can do better!”
Facts/Trivia
- In his free time, Ryan Tham enjoys partying and traveling.
- He is the third generation of one of Mumbai’s oldest Chinese families. The Thames are one of the most prominent families in Mumbai’s Chinese food scene.
- Ryan’s grandfather was born into a barber family in Kolkata. He moved to Mumbai in the 1960s and settled there. In an interview, Ryan said about his grandfather:
I still remember those days. Grandpa would close the cash register and lock the money in the safe before he came home.”
- Ryan’s grandfather initially opened a salon in Mumbai with his wife but later decided to open a restaurant.
- Ryan and his brother Keenan launched ‘Nikkei’ – a fusion of Japanese and Peruvian cuisine – at Foo restaurant in Mumbai.
Nikkei, a fusion of Japanese and Peruvian cuisine
- Ryan follows a non-vegetarian diet.
- By 2021, the Tham brothers plan to open four more restaurants in Mumbai before expanding into other cities.
- Ryan has a black Porsche.
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