Vikas Khanna (born 1971 or 1972) is an Indian celebrity chef, restaurateur, cookbook writer, and filmmaker based in New York City.

[citation needed] Khanna worked at Salaam Bombay and The Café at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York before he joined Junoon, an upscale Indian restaurant in Flatiron district of Manhattan.

[9] From 2011, Khanna hosted seven seasons of MasterChef India (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8) a series based on the original British version.

[10] He appeared as a Consultant chef to help a failing Indian restaurant named Purnima on the Gordon Ramsay TV series Kitchen Nightmares.

Khanna appeared as a judge and an Indian-cuisine specialist on the two-part season finale of Hell's Kitchen.