Looks like feted Indian chef Gaggan Anand just can’t stop feeding Singapore. Hot on the heels of his sold-out eponymous residency at Mandala Club, which ended Jun 30, the rock music-loving, vinyl-obsessed award-winning chef is ready to put a more permanent stamp on Singapore’s food scene with a new restaurant.
The restaurant is the first overseas outpost of Chef Anand's cheeky culinary venture in Bangkok that opened back in Mar 6, 2020, two weeks before COVID-19 hit Thailand. The story was completely a fictional idea but it was a really fun coming up with it. It took a lot of R&D, but it was really fun." "I wanted one restaurant that doesn’t impose my 'A-plus' prices," the 44-year-old shared with CNA Lifestyle candidly.I wanted to make a restaurant where people can enjoy my dishes at 'C' price," he explained, adding that the price point difference from his other restaurants is that they don’t charge on the décor and look.
The chef first described the original restaurant in Bangkok as his “curry house dream” finally coming true through a “Mexican Indian fiction” cuisine restaurant. But now, he said, it’s coming true specifically in Singapore, where diners are open and adventurous.Anand revealed was always on a lookout to open something more permanent in Singapore, but was very determined to find the right partner.