Chef Brar was born in Lucknow, India. When fairly young, he was inspired by the local Kebab vendors in Lucknow to pursue his love of food and was also a volunteer apprentice to one of them. Eventually he joined Institute of Hotel Management, Lucknow, for a more formal initiation into... Read more
Chef Brar was born in Lucknow, India. When fairly young, he was inspired by the local Kebab vendors in Lucknow to pursue his love of food and was also a volunteer apprentice to one of them. Eventually he joined Institute of Hotel Management, Lucknow, for a more formal initiation into the culinary world.
After completing his education at IHM, Chef Brar began his career at the Taj Mahal Hotel. In 2001, at Fort Aguada Beach Resort in Goa, he opened “Morisco” a seafood restaurant, “il Camino” an Italian restaurant and “Fishtail” a small open air barbeque eatery. Back in Delhi in 2003, he was part of the newly opened Radisson Blu Hotel, Noida. He also became the youngest executive chef of his time in the country at the age of 25.
He then left for Boston, United States, where he opened “Banq”, a fine-dine Franco-Asian restaurant. Banq won numerous awards including the Best New Restaurant in the World by the magazine “Wallpaper”.
Following this, he was appointed Corporate Chef for the One World Hospitality Group, one of the oldest restaurant groups in Boston. Back in India, he joined Novotel, Juhu Beach, Mumbai, as the Senior Executive Chef.
He has set up restaurants in India (including at a heritage hotel, Alila Fort Bishangarh and the Flyp at MTv chain of restaurants pan India) and abroad and curated the menu of many more (including cruise kitchens aboard Royal Caribbean).
He pioneered the first ever Twitter video show called Ranveer On The Road. During the 2020 lockdown, chef Ranveer kept his followers motivated and encouraged with novel cooking and talk-related digital shows that went on to be immensely popular as most watched on YouTube. He also partners with various Government and Non-Government organisations to make a social impact by running fundraisers for street children , daily wagers & farmers; as also a #BringThemBack Movement in association with NASVI (National association of street food vendors) to help reinstate Street Food Vendors back in business.
He is designated as the chief curator of the biggest Food celebration called World Food India (Nov 2023) being organized by Ministry of Food Processing Industries. He has also run two of the most popular petition campaigns created an awareness campaign for getting the indigenous Bandel Cheese its GI tag and coriander as a national herb getting over 55000 signatures via the global petition website – Change.org, Chef Ranveer is Tied in as an ambassador for millets and sustainable cooking with WWF and FICCI.
Exploring his artistic talents beyond cooking and painting, Chef Ranveer made his OTT debut in 2022 with and received critical acclaim for – Modern Love, Mumbai and has also shot for his Bollywood Debut for the film “Buckingham Murders”. He has also been seen in several shows such as Dum Laga ke India, Thums Up Toofani Biryani Hunt and more recently Discovery Channel’s Star vs Food.
With a bestseller in his kitty, a newly opened restaurant called Kashkan in UAE and an artist both in and out of the kitchen, chef Brar is indeed a food-sufi on a constant culinary quest. His popularity on television is matched by his tremendous fan following on social media as well. He has a Cumulative following of close to 14 Million across platforms.
Getting the basics right and revering the kitchen as an artist would his/her studio, are mantras he lives by and propagates to others as well.