Gaggan Anand

Gaggan Anand
Born Kolkata, India
Website www.eatatgaggan.com

Culinary career

Cooking style Progressive Indian cuisine

Gaggan Anand (born in Kolkata, India) is an Indian chef and the owner and executive chef of the progressive Indian restaurant Gaggan in Bangkok, Thailand.[1]

Biography

Anand was born in Kolkata, India to Punjabi parents. He was initially more interested in music than cooking and performed as a drummer in local rock bands before beginning his culinary career.[2] He attended a catering college in Trivandrum and after receiving a diploma he began working as a trainee with the Taj Group. Anand later left the Taj Group to pursue a career in Bangkok, where he began working at Red, restaurant that specialized in contemporary Indian cuisine.[2] From there he served as the first chef of Indian descent to intern with Ferran Adrià’s research team at el Bulli and also began working at various restaurants in Bangkok, a process that Anand stated was frustrating because the businesses "just didn't want anything different".[1] This frustration led him to propose to some friends that he open his own restaurant, Gaggan.[3][4]

Gaggan

Anand opened Gaggan in December 2010.,[2] which serves progressive Indian haute cuisine. Since then the restaurant has repeatedly placed on the Restaurant S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants list. In 2014 it ranked 17th in the global rankings. In 2015 and 2016, the restaurant was named both the best restaurant in Thailand, and Asia's best restaurant in the list of Asia's 50 Best Restaurants collated by Restaurant magazine.[5] This was an increase from the third spot overall in Asia from in 2014.[6][7] The restaurant was placed 10th and 23rd overall in the world in The World's 50 Best Restaurants in 2015 and 2016, respectively, and remained the only Indian restaurant to ever place in the top 50.[8][9]

Anand plans to close Gaggan in 2020 to start a 10 seat restaurant that opens only on weekends in Fukuoka, Japan.[10]

Chef's Table

Gaggan was profiled in Season 2's Episode 6 of Netflix's Chef's Table.

References

  1. 1 2 "Global Indians: cooking up a storm". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 Sanghvi, Vir. "Rude Food: Gaggan Anand's scientific cooking". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  3. ↑ "Gaggan Anad". Eat at Gaggan. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "No.1 Gaggan". The World's 50 Best. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Gaggan". The World's 50 Best Restaurants. Archived from the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  6. ↑ Napolitano, Dean (10 March 2015). "Indian Restaurant Is Asia's No. 1". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  7. ↑ http://www.theworlds50best.com/asia/en/2016-The-List/1-10/Gaggan.html
  8. ↑ "What makes chef Gaggan Anand's Indian restaurant in the heart of Bangkok so special". Financial Review. 27 September 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  9. ↑ "Gaggan, Nahm soar at World's 50 Best Restaurants awards". Bangkok Post. 2 June 2015. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  10. ↑ http://www.theworlds50best.com/blog/News/chef-gaggan-anand-to-close-asias-no1-restaurant-in-2020.html
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