The Future of Dining: Bangkok Edition

For a lot of us, the benchmark for a great meal is if we're still thinking about it long after we've had it. This greatly applies for the dishes prepared by Garima Arora, Chef Owner, Gaa & Here, and the guest on this episode of This Round is On Me.

Garima is the first Indian woman chef to be awarded with a Michelin Star, and she was also named 'Asia's Best Female Chef' in 2019. After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, she worked at the famous restaurant Noma in Copenhagen, learning alongside René Redzepi. She returned to Asia in 2016 and was appointed the sous-chef at Gaggan in Bangkok, and then went on to open her own restaurant 'Gaa' in 2017, an innovative and modern fine dining establishment. More recently, she has opened a new restaurant called 'HERE', also in Bangkok.

On this episode, Gauri and Garima talk about what all the accolades she has won mean to her, how they affect her business, how restaurants have been evolving during the times of coronavirus, what the last few months have been like for Garima and her team, how they went from being fully booked to 40% of capacity, the hardships and difficulties of shutting down a running restaurant, her plans for opening back up, how she looks at this as a time to try out all the unique ideas she has wanted to, Thailand being an extremely saturated market for delivery restaurants, her amazing Food Forward India programme, and lots more! Do tune in.

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