Chef

Head chef Anirudh Arora is a prodigious talent. Aged 25 he was cooking for Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, then Prime Minister of India. In 2002, he was brought in to head up Udaimahal restaurant at one of Rajasthan’s most important new hotels, the Oberoi-owned Udaivilãs. The property was immediately applauded for its sophisticated classic Indian cuisine.

It is Ani’s obsession with detail that makes him such a conspicuous talent, as well as his curiosity for the cuisines of India and its border country. The son of an Indian army officer, he has spent time in regions as diverse as Kashmir, Ladakh, Lucknow and Calcutta, these formative experiences informing his broad repertoire of culinary knowledge, his research missions continually drawing him back to India.