AD Singh, Managing Director, Olive Bar and Kitchen, Bandra

“Don’t ask me to change a light bulb please,” AD Singh warns us in jest, as we dig into a thin-crust pizza. We are seated inside Singh’s landmark restaurant, Olive Bar & Kitchen in Bandra — the place he set up 14 years ago, way before Olive became an iconic national brand. In his 23-year journey as a restaurateur, Singh has won more food awards than most of his peers — not a mean achievement for a man who has no background in business and who was packed off to the US in the ’80s to become an electrical engineer.