Vivek Singh is an Anglo-Indian celebrity chef, restaurateur, and media personality known for his Indian cuisine. He is the CEO and Executive Chef of four London- based modern restaurants and one Oxford-based modern restaurant. Singh is a regular face on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen, and has been featured on television shows including Madhur Jaffrey’s Curry Nation, At Home with Rachel Allen, NDTV Good Times – Will Travel for Food and My Kitchen Rules UK.
Suvir Saran is a chef, cookbook author, educator as well as a farmer who specializes in bringing Indian cooking to the American kitchen. Suvir is the author of three celebrated cookbooks: Indian Home Cooking, American Masala, and Masala Farm, and the chef-creator of THC, The House of Celeste, a modern Indian restaurant in Gurgaon. His Slice of Life column appears every two weeks in the Sunday Eye magazine of The Indian Express, where he shares musings in poetic prose that inspire provocative thinking and raise questions on life and living. Suvir’s approachable style helped demystify Indian cuisine and earned him the first Michelin star awarded to an Indian restaurant in America.
A philanthropist, an educator and mentor to young Chefs, this dynamic Chef-entrepreneur is the founder member of prominent Indian Chef’s associations – IFCA, WICA (West India), SICA (South India) – and is also a member of and mentor in the Indian Culinary Federation (ICF). Promoting sustainable food and slow food brings him on the global Slow Food alliance – Craft Chef’s Guild. Featured prominently in all contemporary electronic and print media – Fat ya Fit Chef (CNN-IBN), a culinary judge on MasterChef India, among others – Chef Saby has wowed audiences with his new age cookery show – The Urban Cook (Zee Khanna Khazana, which is now Living Foodz). Chef Saby is the only recipient of the most coveted National Tourism Award, for “Best Chef of India”, awarded by the President of India.
Harpal Singh Sokhi is an Indian chef, restaurateur, author, and entrepreneur. In 2013, he started his chain “The Punjabi Tadka”. He has also hosted the show Turban Tadka. Mr. Harpal has written food columns and a book titled ‘Royal Hyderabadi Cooking’ (authored with Sanjeev Kapoor). In 2012, he won the title of the Most Admired Celebrity Chef of the Year. In 2016, he was awarded the Best Chef of the Year by the Indian Restaurant Awards. In 2017, he was honored as the Most Popular Food Show Host by Food Food Channel.
Pankaj Bhadouria is the winner of MasterChef India. Season 1 (2010). She was a school teacher who quit a 16-year-old job to participate in the first season of MasterChef India. She has hosted the TV shows Chef Pankaj Ka Zayka, Kifayati Kitchen, 3 Course with Pankaj, Rasoi se- Pankaj Bhadouria ke Saath, Sales Ka Baazigar. She was the first MasterChef Winner worldwide to have an official MasterChef Cookbook in her name and has written two more cookery books Barbie- I am a Chef, and Chicken from my Kitchen.
Innovator of the Cal-Indian culinary genre and the most decorated Indian chef cooking in the United States today, Chef Sri has helmed the kitchen at Taj Campton Place in San Francisco since 2008 where he has continually earned two Michelin stars and 3.5 stars from the San Francisco Chronicle. A culinary master, his highly personal blend of East and West sensibilities allows him to present the flavors of the east with a western flair that is both unique and faithful to his Indian roots.
Alfred Prasad is credited with elevating the reputation of British Indian food with his delicate treatment of fresh, seasonal produce. Becoming the youngest Indian chef to receive a Michelin star at the age of twenty-nine, he retained this accolade at Tamarind for twelve years. He is now a consultant chef, showcasing the variety, as well as the quality, of Indian food.
Chef Anahita Dhondy got her start at age 10 by helping her mother, herself a chef and caterer, in the family kitchen. In 2013, she opened her first restaurant, SodaBottleOpenerWala, a casual and trendy café dedicated to bringing Parsi cuisine to new audiences. Dhondy is internationally recognized for her advocacy work regarding Parsi culinary heritage. She was featured in Forbes’s 30 Under 30 Asia 2019 list, and in 2018, she represented SodaBottleOpenerWala at the EAT Forum and was honoured as a Condé Nast Traveler’s Innovator of the Year. In 2017, she was awarded “Indian of the Year” in the hospitality sector.
Pooja Dhingra is an Indian pastry chef and businessman. She opened India’s first Macaron store and is the owner of bakery chain Le15 Patisserie that specializes in macarons and a host of French desserts. She has been featured in national dailies and is a regular in fashion and lifestyle glossies not just for her abilities in the kitchen, but also as a dynamic businesswoman and inspiration to women – she was selected by Forbes India for their ‘30 Under 30’ achievers list for 2014 and the Forbes 30 under 30 Asia list. She has published two books, a best seller (in India) on baking. and The Wholesome Kitchen.
Bani Nanda is a pastry chef, she’s the owner and founder of Miam, a Delhi-based Patisserie. Her love affair with pâtisserie goes back to when she first experienced a taste of her mother’s delectable home made cakes. Armed with a degree in Physics, this rush eventually led her to Le Cordon Bleu, Paris. A tryst at Dalloyau, one of Paris’ oldest pâtisserie dating back over 400 years, brought out her passion in French pastry and desserts.