Flavour Maestro -Manu Chandra on The Man
Magazine, (March 2017)
Manu
Chandra, a famous executive chef and entrepreneur is a proud owner of
three remarkable restaurants: Monkey Bar, the first of it’s kind Gastropub in
Bangalore and Delhi; The Fatty Bao, the trendy Asian Gastro Bar in Bangalore
and the award -winning Mediterranean restaurant Olive Beach, Bangalore. He is
an alumnus of St Stephen’s College, Delhi and the Culinary Institute of America
(CIA), Hyde Park, New York. He was a trainee with New York’s most celebrated
kitchens, including Restaurant Daniel, Le Bernardin, Gramercy Tavern, Café
Centro and Jean Georges. Fond of slow cooking , he very well experiments
with his cooking skills. Manu leans diligently towards controlled and cooked
things, a process that enables one to extract the exact flavours of the dish.
On the flip side, he’s fond of incredibly fast cooking, which keeps the
integrity of ingredients and freshness intact.
