No-one who was going about their business in London that day will ever forget it. More than 50 people were murdered in a series of ruthlessly coordinated terrorist attacks, targeting rush-hour commuters on the public transport network. And Litu Mohiuddin should have been on one of those trains. The fact that he wasn’t is one of many ‘sliding doors’ moments which have defined his astonishing journey, from the fields of rural Bangladesh to the bustling heart of the UK, where he is now channelling the essence of the British Raj into a fresh and innovative dining experience.  “Ah yes, 7/7. That all happened only a few weeks after I had first arrived in the UK,” he recalls. “I was working for a travel agency at the time, and my job was delivering tickets and official documents to customers around London. On that particular day, I decided I’d sneak a couple of extra hours off that morning and make a slightly later start, as I wasn’t feeling particularly well. Otherwise, I’d have been on one of the very trains that was bombed.” More of that in a moment. First, let’s rewind and start from the beginning. Litu was born in a small village in Khulna, one of the largest cities in Bangladesh. The oldest of two brothers, he was raised in a tight-knit community where his working class family would earn their money farming the land and living their lives without many of the modern-day utilities that we take for granted. His father was a farmer, and his mother became a counsellor, as well as being involved in micro-credit fundraising. “I grew up with a very organic lifestyle,” he says. “We would never really buy anything apart from salt to cook and kerosene to light up the lamp; everything used to come from the field, and often our produce would be used as a form of currency, for bartering.”