Botiwalla, in Charlotte, North Carolina, is chef Meherwan Irani's homage to his lifelong love of kababs and Irani Cafes. In his hometown of Ahmednagar, India, his grandfather owned an Irani Cafe, the original tea and kabab houses run by Zoroastrians that emigrated from Persia to India in the late 19th and early 20th century. With a strange and wonderful mash-up of Victorian decor and Indian sensibilities, they catered to the English colonialists' love of high tea & afternoon snacks while creating a unique style of Indo-Persian (Parsi) cuisine.