Our Executive Chef at Azaya Beach Resort in South Goa - Atanu Nath, has 17 plus years of fine-dining Michelin level experience. He has worked for some Michelin star chefs like Marco Pierre White and Mansour Memarian, in major cities like Dubai, Kuala-Lumpur, Saigon, New Delhi & Phuket.
He is classically trained in French & Italian and other European cuisines, while picking up Asian cuisines during his stint as an executive chef for a famous Pan-Asian Restaurant featuring cuisines of Silk Route in Dubai, especially Japanese.
For the past few years, he has started to marry his cuisine with nostalgic memories of his childhood dishes from India. He feels that there is a lot of potential in Indian cuisine and it doesn't have to be only "ugly delicious". It can also be "petite, soigne and pretty delicious ". Only a small portion of Indian regional cuisine has been showcased. He intends to explore and put forward other untouched cuisines of India like Bengali & Northeastern India apart from the usual suspects like "Mutton rogan josh" in a new avatar.
So his cuisine is Avant-Garde which marries different influences from around the world while trying to create a genuine experience (with long-held traditions in mind).
He is classically trained in French & Italian and other European cuisines, while picking up Asian cuisines during his stint as an executive chef for a famous Pan-Asian Restaurant featuring cuisines of Silk Route in Dubai, especially Japanese.
For the past few years, he has started to marry his cuisine with nostalgic memories of his childhood dishes from India. He feels that there is a lot of potential in Indian cuisine and it doesn't have to be only "ugly delicious". It can also be "petite, soigne and pretty delicious ". Only a small portion of Indian regional cuisine has been showcased. He intends to explore and put forward other untouched cuisines of India like Bengali & Northeastern India apart from the usual suspects like "Mutton rogan josh" in a new avatar.
So his cuisine is Avant-Garde which marries different influences from around the world while trying to create a genuine experience (with long-held traditions in mind).