"You could see the positivity in their relationship, the love," Chef Vikram Vij of Vij's restaurant in Vancouver tells PEOPLE of the Duke and Duchess of SussexJanine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern monarchies and the world's most famous families. Like Queen Elizabeth, she loves horses and a great tiara moment.Jenny Haward is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023.
"They came and spoke to the kitchen staff, they were very respectful to let me choose the meal as the chef," he explains. "I said I was going to put something together for them. I asked them if there were any allergies or any things that she didn't feel like having, and Meghan said, 'I love spicy food.' "
Along with the delicious appetizers, Chef Vij also prepared a host of main dishes for the group, including,"a lamb popsicle, which is like a rack of lamb and with marinated mustard and sweet white wine in a fenugreek cream curry," which, he explains, he had had previously cooked for The group also tried other dishes, including potato cream curry and little black chickpea cakes, which were served with rice and naan. "They even actually asked for more bread or naan bread," the chef tells PEOPLE.
The chef explains that an "amazing" moment also occurred at the end of the night, when, as the group was leaving, Meghan noticed the kitchen staff were watching and asked if she could go and thank them. "I gave them our Vij's cookbook at the end, signed to them, and I gave Harry a little bottle of the Vij's gin 'cause he liked the gin and tonic a lot," he says.
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