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Interview/ Manu Chandra, chef & restaurateur

You may not see Manu Chandra on reality cook shows or hawking his line of ladles and spatulas, but that has not stood in the way of this Delhi-born, New York-bred, Bengaluru resident from becoming a ‘celebrity’ chef who has won multiple ‘Chef of the Year’ awards and been noticed by the likes of The New York Times and Time magazine.

After picking up the tricks of the trade from the prestigious Culinary Institute of America and a stint with the Michelin-starred Norwegian chef Eyvind Hellstrom, Chandra returned to India to join Olive Beach in Bengaluru in the mid-2000s.

He has not looked back since, and became chef-partner with the likes of Monkey Bar, Fatty Bao and Toast & Tonic.

Right after the pandemic, Chandra left the Olive Group and started his independent business in partnership with longtime colleague Chetan Rampal.

The business includes Lu