How a Food, Drink and Lifestyle Expert Spends His Sundays
“Your eyes work differently when you become a parent, and you start seeing things in your city that you never saw,” Maneesh Goyal, the Manhattan businessman and restaurateur, said of fatherhood.
Last year, he and his husband adopted a baby boy, now 20 months old. Mr. Goyal is one of the owners of Temple Bar in NoLIta, as well as Sona, an Indian restaurant in the Flatiron district, and Sona Home, an online home goods store.
For many years he said he had a lot of identities, most of which seemed to circumvent parenthood and his Indian American roots.
Growing up in Dallas, he was a Texan first. But in 1999, he moved to New York and became “an events guy, a marketing guy, an entrepreneur and a gay New Yorker,” he said. “Now I’m all about teaching what I took for granted from my cultural heritage.” Mr.
