With two decades of professional culinary experience, chef Surbhi Sahni (@chefsurbhi) brings home cooking traditions to modern Indian cuisine and confections. Before launching TAGMO (@tagmonyc / tagmonyc.com), Sahni served as the creative force behind Michelin-starred New York City restaurants, Devi and Tulsi, and Saar Bistro in Midtown. he also served as the creative director and events director at Hemant Mathur Catering.
Roshni is a highly innovated and passionate chef with over 15 years of industry experience. She has a unique fusion style of cooking, blending different cultures together. She has cooked in 5 star hotels, Country Clubs, restaurants, colleges and private homes is Asia, UK, Canada and the US. In 2009 Roshni was awarded Chopped Champion on the hit Food Network show Chopped. In 2011 Roshni was also invited to be the featured chef for Masala, Mendhi, Masti in Toronto Canada, North America’s largest South Asian festival. In 2012 Roshni was a contestant on the very popular FOX TV show Hell’s Kitchen with Michelin Star chef Gordon Ramsey.
Ritu Dalmia is an Indian celebrity chef and restaurateur. She is the chef and co-owner of the popular Italian restaurant Diva in Delhi, which she established in 2000, with co-founder Gita Bhalla under partnership firm “Riga Food”. Other restaurants of company include ‘Latitude 28’ and ‘Cafe Diva’. She hosted a TV cookery show, ‘Italian Khana’, for NDTV Good Times for three seasons, and published her first cookbook by the same name in 2009
Chef Manjunath Mural is the first Indian Executive chef to score a Michelin star for an Indian restaurant in Southeast Asia.
As Executive Chef of Song of India, a modern Indian restaurant that features regional flavours across India, he was recognised for his decades of hard work in 2016 when the restaurant was awarded one Michelin star in Singapore. In 2017, he once again led his team at The Song of India to garner a Michelin star – still the only Indian restaurant in Southeast Asia to have the honour.
Jehangir Mehta is the executive chef and owner of New York City restaurants Graffiti, Me and You and Graffiti Earth. He is also the author of the 2008 HarperCollins cookbook “Mantra: The Rules of Indulgence,” offers a cooking class at his restaurant for children 4-14 called “Candy Camp” designed to build interest in more diverse foods, hosts exclusive in-home dinner parties and runs an event planning company. In August 2009, Jehangir appeared on “Iron Chef America” on Food Network, and was the runner-up on the second season of “The Next Iron Chef” later in 2009.
Sujan Sarkar is the chef and creator of two nationally recognized modern Indian restaurant brands in the United States. He continues to explore, understand, and reimagine what the future of Indian cuisine can be by experimenting and stretching the boundaries of traditional Indian menus. His first U.S. restaurant concept, ROOH, opened in early 2017 in San Francisco and is a critically acclaimed restaurant. Sarkar opened his first Indian gastro bar called BAAR BAAR in New York. Since then, ROOH has opened in New Delhi, Chicago, Columbus and, most recently, Palo Alto. Sarkar has received multiple awards including Times of India Chef of the Year (2016) and Elite Magazine’s International Chef of the Year.
Sanjay Thumma popularly known as Vah-Chef, is an Indian celebrity chef, entrepreneur, restaurateur and television personality. He is the founder of the cooking website, vahrehvah.com. He is especially popular among the Indie-expatriate communities in mainland India. He became known for his online recipe channel on YouTube, which he started in 2007, with over 750 million views. He is one of the three judges in the first season of MasterChef India – Telugu.
Hari Nayak is more than a chef, today he is a restaurateur, author as well as a culinary consultant based in New York City. Hari Nayak started his epicurean journey from the Culinary Institute of America and today, he is one of the most sought after Indian chefs for his unique style. After working in India then traveling to the culinary institute, he went on to work in restaurants in the New York metro area. Though Chef Hari is one of the world’s most famous Indian chefs today, his skills extend far beyond the kitchen. A savvy restaurateur, Hari Nayak is responsible for the operation and success of several restaurants worldwide.
Aarti Sequeira is a cooking show host, cookbook author, journalist, television producer and food personality. Aarti is a mainstay on Food Network after winning season six of Food Network Star. In addition to hosting her own shows, Aarti Party and the travel show, Hidden Eats, she also serves as judge on hit shows like Guy’s Grocery Games, Cooks vs. Cons, and Christmas Cookie Challenge. A gifted writer, Aarti published her first cookbook, Aarti Paarti: An American Kitchen with an Indian Soul in 2014 (Grand Central).
Amninder Sandhu is no ordinary chef. “The girl with gold in her fingers” (that’s what legendary chef Marco Pierre White called her) continues to push boundaries of regional Indian food with her unquenchable curiosity and a profound interest in reviving lost recipes. After creating the first gas-free kitchen in the country at Mumbai’s Arth, Sandhu went on to conquer international platforms with The Final Table, a Netflix series, breached new frontiers with a comfort Indian delivery brand Ammu and even launched a terrace bar and kitchen in Pune named Nora. At her newest restaurant Bawri in Goa, Sandhu creates beautiful yet simplistic dishes squeezing every ounce of flavour from carefully selected ingredients.