Chef Abhijit SahaFounder, Director & Chef, Avant Garde Hospitality Pvt. Ltd.

Chef-Entrepreneur Abhijit Saha is the Founding Director of Avant Garde Hospitality Pvt. Ltd. His award winning restaurants include Caperberry(UB City), Fava(UB City) & Café Cassia(Cinnamon Boutique, Ulsoor) in Bangalore & Saha in Singapore. As guest judge of MasterChef India 2016 and with twenty six years of national and international experience, he has been awarded 'Chef of the year' by Times Food Awards, 2016 and 'Best Chef of India' at the Indian Restaurant Congress, 2013.

Chef Saha has participated as Guest Chef & Speaker at TedX, 'World of Flavours' Conferences in Culinary Institute of America 2004, 2005 & 2007), Gourmet Abu Dhabi(2012), World Gourmet Summit Singapore (2015 & 2016), Times Literature Festival Mumbai, Food For Thought Fest New Delhi & IFCA National Congress across the country.

Regarded fondly as the "Forever Young Chef" he enjoys F1 Racing, Wines, Travel, Architecture, Design and Photography.