MMCA aims to curate immersive dining experiences in Asian and Indian cuisines, create new restaurant concepts, mentor young chefs, and work towards preserving India’s rich and diverse culinary wisdom.
Chef Manish Mehrotra, one of India’s most celebrated culinary innovators, announces the launch of Manish Mehrotra Culinary Arts (MMCA)— a contemporary culinary platform. MMCA aims to curate immersive dining experiences in Asian and Indian cuisines, create new restaurant concepts, mentor young chefs, and work towards preserving India’s rich and diverse culinary wisdom.
Partnering with Chef Mehrotra on the platform are Amit Khanna, founder of Amaya Ventures, and Binny Bansal, co-founder of Flipkart. As per Chef Mehrotra, the culinary platform that will combine research, storytelling, and hospitality, is about rediscovering India’s culinary legacy, reimagining it for the future, and introducing food as a cultural narrative.
The trio also announced the opening of MMCA’s first restaurant later this year in New Delhi. An Indian food-forward space, the restaurant will be a modern interpretation of Indian kitchens and will feature seasonal ingredients and soulful flavours put together in comforting dishes.
MMCA is also expected to launch its catering arm by early 2026. This extension will allow Chef Mehrotra’s creations and philosophy to expand from intimate dinner tables to gracing grand celebrations and gatherings.
At its heart, MMCA is an attempt to bring back kitchens where food and cuisines are not styled but preserved, prepared, and served in their most authentic form.
Often regarded as one who redefined Indian cuisine for India and the rest of the world, Manish Mehrotra is also the powerhouse behind Indian Accent, one of India’s most celebrated restaurants and Mehrotra’s fresh and flavour-packed dishes lie at the heart of it. He is one of the few chefs in the world who can claim to have invented an entire school of cooking through his inventive take on Indian cuisine.
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