G.W.Khamkar Spices has been the first choice of all traditional Maharashtrian foodies not just in Lalbaug but all over the world for decades. The G.W.Khamkar family is natives of Aargaon, Taluka Lanja of the Ratnagiri district, from where the family’s ancestors drove their cars to Mumbai. Tanu Bhikaji Khamkar an ancestral member of the Khamkar family came to Mumbai in 1918. He then started selling chillies, pickles and numerous sorts of spices in the Tardeo region of Mumbai. He single-handedly expanded his business of selling spices by first taking a house and then a shop in the same Tardeo region. Mr Taanu Khamkar, the eldest in the family, also invited his four younger siblings to Mumbai to take care of their growing business. These siblings included Bhau, Raghunath, Pundalik and the youngest of all Vaman Bhikaji Khamkar. Over the next five to six decades, the business of the Khamkar family also expanded to the prominent areas of Mumbai, such as Tardeo, Prabhadevi, Bhoiwada and Lalbaug, as five brothers came together.