Chef Uday Seth

Career : Uday Seth is head chef at one of Liverpool’s newest dining hotspots, Mayur, in East Village on Duke Street. Having worked in five star hotels such as the Taj group and restaurants in India, Dubai and London including Mela in Shaftesbury Avenue, Uday is very passionate about food and his heritage, and is keen to spread the delight of Indian cuisine. Exposed to the kitchen from an early age, he was given the responsibility of baking bread whenever his mother was away: “My brother and sister made the curry while I was only trusted to make the bread – ‘chapati!’ “We went to the markets regularly to buy the ingredients. I was very aware of how they came together to make delicious meals.” Uday lives with his wife, Anamika, and six-year-old son Srijan in Liverpool city centre,