Maneesh K. 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. Maneesh Goyal is an Indian businessman who is settled in Dallas, Texas, and was inspired to venture into the food service industry by his father, who used to run a successful Indian restaurant in the United States called India House, which was the first place to serve Indian cuisine in Texas.