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The Most Famous Indian Chefs

Indian cuisine is regarded as one of the best around the world. Their unique way of cooking and the blend of spices gives Indian cuisine its distinct character that the whole world have come to appreciate and love.

Thus, it does not come as a surprise that Indian chefs are making a name for themselves not just in India but globally. Below are the most famous Indian chefs;

1. Garima Arora

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Garima Arora is an Indian chef who became the first Indian woman to win a Michelin star in November 2018. She was named Asia’s Best Female Chef for the year by World’s 50 Best Restaurants in February 2019.

Arora studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris and graduated in 2010. She worked with Chef Gaggan Anand, Gordon Ramsay and René Redzepi of Noma in Copenhagen before opening her own restaurant, Gaa, in Bangkok in April 2017.

Her restaurant celebrates a modern tasting menu using traditional Indian techniques. In March 2019, the restaurant made its debut on the Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants list at No. 16, claiming the Highest New Entry Award.

2. Vikas Khanna

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Vikas Khanna is an Indian Micheline star chef, restaurateur, cookbook writer, filmmaker and humanitarian.

Khanna was inspired by his grandmother, who loved to cook, and her kitchen became a part of his foundational training. He graduated from Welcomgroup graduate school of hotel administration, a constituent of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, in 1991.

Vikas also studied at Culinary Institute of America and New York University. He received an honorary doctorate at GD Goenka University as a recognition for his outstanding work in culinary art philanthropy, altruism and humanitarianism and his global reach as a chef.

In 2019, he opened a restaurant called Kinara in Dubai. In 2020, he opened a restaurant called Ellora in Dubai.

3. Shipra Khanna

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Shipra Khanna is an Indian celebrity chef, restaurateur, author and television personality best known to have won the second season of the Indian television show MasterChef (2012) at the age of 29.

The kitchen was a safe haven for Khanna who married young and was in an abusive marriage. She further found herself more and more in the kitchen because her daughter was born physically handicapped and required a special diet.

The young mother started getting creative, inventing healthier versions of her daughter’s favorite fast foods, putting new twists on Indian classics and perfecting delicious Italian cuisine

On 11 September 2013, she opened her first Restaurant in Ahmedabad, Gujarat named “H.O.T – House of Taste”. On 14 January 2017, she opened another Restaurant in New Delhi, India named The Darzi Bar & Kitchen.

4. Atul Kochhar

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Atul Kochhar is an Indian-born, British-based chef, restaurateur, and television personality who in January 2001 at the age of 31, was awarded a Michelin star.

Kochhar began his cooking career at The Oberoi Group of hotels in India. He attained his diploma in Hotel Management from The Institute of Hotel Management, Chennai.

He opened his own restaurant, Benares, which won him a second Michelin star in 2007. Since then, he has opened several award-winning restaurants: Sindhu and Hawkyns in Buckinghamshire and Indian Essence in Kent.

5. Madhur Jaffrey

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Madhur Jaffrey CBE is an Indian-American actress, food and travel writer, and television personality known to have brought Indian cuisine to the western hemisphere with her debut cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973), which was inducted into the James Beard Foundation’s Cookbook Hall of Fame in 2006.

Jaffrey did not cook at all as a child and only started after she went to London at the age of 19 to study at RADA that she learned how to cook, using recipes of familiar dishes that were provided in correspondence from her mother.

In 2004, she was named an honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of her services to cultural relations between the United Kingdom, India and the United States, through her achievements in film, television and cookery.

6. Vineet Bhatia

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Vineet Bhatia is an Indian chef, restaurateur, author, and media personality known for being the first Indian chef to be awarded a Michelin star.

After failing the physical test to join the Air Force, Vineet turned to cooking, having been inspired by his mother’s passion for cooking.

Currently, he has eleven restaurants, including his signature restaurant “KAMA by Vineet” and appears as a judge on Netflix show The Final Table and judge-host on MasterChef India. He has written two cookbooks, Rasoi: New Indian Kitchen and My Sweet Kitchen.

7. Pooja Dhingra

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Pooja Dhingra is an Indian pastry chef and businesswoman known to have opened India’s first macaron store. Her bakery chain Le15 Pâtisserie specializes in macarons and a host of French desserts.

Dhingra learnt the art of baking from her aunt. She dropped out of law school and attend a hospitality and management course at the César Ritz school in Le Bouveret, Switzerland. She trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris.

Furthermore, she has published two books, a bestseller (in India) on baking and The Wholesome Kitchen.

8. Sanjeev Kapoor

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Sanjeev Kapoor is an Indian celebrity chef, entrepreneur and television personality known to be the first chef in the world to own a twenty-four seven food and lifestyle channels, Food Food which was launched in January 2011.

He began his career in the hospitality industry in 1984 after completing the Diploma in Hotel Management from the Institute of Hotel Management Catering & Nutrition, Pusa, New Delhi.

He is the recipient of the Padma Shri in 2017. The Padma Shri is the fourth-highest Indian national honor.

9. Maneet Chauhan

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Maneet Chauhan is an Indian American chef and television personality whose cooking style is described as “global fusion” with roots in Indian cuisine.

She began her culinary career at the Manipal University’s WelcomGroup Graduate School of Hotel Administration, Manipal, India. Maneet then attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York and graduated, sweeping all the awards of her class.

In August 2014 she opened her first restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee called “Chauhan Ale and Masala House”.

10. Ranveer Brar

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Ranveer Singh Brar is an Indian celebrity chef, Television & digital celebrity, Masterchef India judge, author, restaurateur, food film producer and benefactor.

Brar was inspired by the local Kebab vendorsat a young age, which led him to pursue his love for food. He did his schooling at the Institute of Hotel Management, Lucknow.

In 2001, at Fort Aguada Beach Resort in Goa, he opened “Morisco” a seafood restaurant, “il Camino” an Italian restaurant and “Fishtail” a small open air barbeque eatery. In Boston, he opened “Banq”, a fine Franco-Asian restaurant.

Banq won numerous awards, including the Best New Restaurant in the World by the magazine “Wallpaper”.