In 2012, he cooked for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh as part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

[7] They were given multiple small sums, but won a car in a competition and sold it, enabling them to place a deposit on a new home.

However, the Home Office began to be interested in Todiwala's work, as he was a foreign business owner without any investors.

At around the same time, Michael Gottlieb, the owner of 'Smolensky's' restaurants in London, wished to invest in a new Indian restaurant on E1's Prescott Street and approached The Cobra Good Curry Guide's website[permanent dead link‍] editor Pat Chapman seeking a chef.

Café Spice Namasté opened in 1995, although the Home Office would continue to pursue Todiwala for deportation.

[3][7] He has since worked with the National Health Service to create ethnic menus for hospitals alongside Loyd Grossman, and with the London East Training and Enterprise Council to create an Asian and Oriental cooking school with an onsite restaurant so that students could be trained in a real working kitchen.

[11] In 2011, he launched a new restaurant named Mr Todiwala's Kitchen, which is located within the Hilton Hotel at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5.

[6] As part of the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Todiwala cooked for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Kirishna Avanti school in Harrow.

He cooked a version of Country Captain using rare breed mutton from North Ronaldsay in the Orkney Islands.

[23] He was also made an honorary professor of Thames Valley University and a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London.

[25] He has also appeared on "Britain's Natural World: Unnatural History of London" discussing his love of British birds.

In 2018 Todiwala appeared on BBC Ones's of Royal Recipes[26] to recreate the pudding that was served by him on Queens Diamond Jubilee function.