How do you keep up to date with the constantly evolving world's culinary scene? Latest trends and developments in the world culinary scene change rapidly and one need to read vigorously, be active on social media and constantly stay connected with your guests and friends working around the world. One of your worst food critics or comment you received and how did you deal with it? I don’t think till today I have got any critics or comment that I can term it as worst. What would you like to do more for a chef support system in helping each other in achieving success? Cross promotion, etc. Four hands promotions with other restaurants leads to success and learning for both the chefs and restaurants who participate. Any daily rituals you do and how it helps you to stay active, motivated? I don’t believe in rituals just like to stay positive to get better results every time. How do you judge a young chef and how you test him for the long term? Skills can be enhanced; knowledge can be gained with experience but attitude is what I look for with basic culinary training. Learning attitude definitely will lead to a long-term relationship. Name top five Indian restaurants around the world according to you? Indian Accent, Tresind, Jamavar, Benares London ,Karavalli Bengaluru what will be Indian cuisine & Indian chef’s future according to you, what should be Indian chefs’ approach in making Indian cuisine best in the world? Indian Cuisine is now entering to an era of what we called as Nouvelle Cuisine with more focus on exotic ingredients to be incorporated from around the world giving an ultimate dining experience to guests with small plates. The food is no more loaded with heavy curries and spices rather making it simpler.Indian cuisine should get the respect what it deserves breaking the barrier of Butter Chicken and Biryani tag from around the world as it very diversified and rich which people don’t know. This is my view on approach of an Indian Chef. Name Top Five Indian chefs of all Time according to you? Chef Bakshish Dean, Chef Avijit Ghosh, Chef Atul Kochhar, Chef Gaggan Anand, Chef Mir Zafar Ali. how do you choose an Indian restaurant to eat with the family, what dishes do you look for in the menu? Social media plays an important role in choosing a restaurant when it comes to dining with family.Menu should have a good selection of non – vegetarian and vegetarian dishes as some of my family members are vegetarians. #FINEDININGINDIAN | 14 September 2019
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