Chef

Sunil Sinha

Career : Joined Taj Hotel Group in 1992. The Taj Bengal can claim some of the credit for the imaginative training it imparted to chef Sunil Sinha who has opened an excellent Indian restaurant called Massala in Cobham, Surrey.... Another chef, Ramesh Lal Shah, has been recruited just to look after the charcoal-fired chulha that needs lighting every morning and raking out and clearing every third day. Apparently only 1 per cent of 8,000-10,000 Indian restaurants in the UK have chulhas but cooking slowly on them does make the food much tastier.

Chef Sinha has already built up a reputation for imaginative cooking and is challenging the ranks of the top Indian chefs in Britain.

Left Massala for family reasons in late 2011


Sunil at his tandoor