MasterChef Vikas Khanna's restaurant Junoon bags top award

Chef Vikas Khanna's Michelin-starred New York-based restaurant Junoon bagged a top honour for six years in a row.

Vikas Khanna

The official tweet on the Junoon's Twitter handle reads, "An honor to receive a @winespectator award for the 6th consecutive year and our 2nd year being...". There's a link to their official Instagram account, where Junoon's Wine Director sommelier Michael Dolinski, is pictured holding the award in the post.

The restaurant's team were awarded the prestigious Wine Spectator Award for the sixth consecutive year and according to the Instagram post below, '2nd year being awarded 2 glasses!'

Here's the full transcript of the Instagram post: "An honor to receive a @wine_spectator award for the 6th consecutive year and our 2nd year being awarded 2 glasses! Congrats to our team and Wine Director Michael Dolinski for his passion in highlighting the beautiful relationship between wine and Indian cuisine! Cheers to our fellow recipients!"

Last week, Aarthi Sampath (pictured above), chef de cuisine at Junoon, emerged the winner of the reality-based cooking television game show series, Chopped, where each week, four chefs take the pressure test for $10,000. (Read more)

Vikas Khanna, is an award winning Michelin starred Indian chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer, filmmaker, humanitarian and the judge of the TV show MasterChef India Season 2, 3, 4 and Masterchef Junior. Based in New York City, he was named in the list of People magazine's Sexiest Men Alive in 2011 and was also referred to as "The Hottest Chef of America."

About Junoon
Vikas Khanna started Junoon on Dec 2nd, 2009, in Flatiron district of Manhattan, New York. The restaurant has been awarded a Michelin star by the Michelin Guide for 6 consecutive years since 2010.

According to the restaurant's offcial website, Junoon, named after the Hindi term for passion, "is a contemporary restaurant offering dining experiences to satisfy all aspects of fine cuisine: wine selection, service, ambience and atmosphere."

The website further states that, "the culinary team at Junoon presents a menu of traditional and contemporary Indian cuisine that showcases the centuries of India's culinary history while exploring the future of this classic cuisine."