Chef Surjan Singh Jolly
Celebrity Chef & Director, Food & Beverage- JW Marriott Bangalore

"Biggest trend in India is all about going social. Restaurants are all driving around social gathering. The scenario has become beverages and food rather than food and beverages."

The two decades of long career span of Surjan Singh Jolly, fondly known as Chef Jolly, includes being the Guest Chef on the world renowned reality television show on Star Plus, Junior Master Chef India. He also has his own show on Zee Khana Khazana titled “Ab Har Koi Chef” and was chosen as the Head Chef for Paris Hilton during her visit to India.

Chef Jolly has traveled and cooked with Sriji Arvind Singh Mewar, of Udaipur Royalty, Nawab Mehboob Alam Khan, the giant of Hyderabadi cuisine, cooked in the bylanes of Lucknow, perfected the Kulchas in Amritsar dhabas to farming in Pampore, outskirts of Kashmir during the saffron harvest.

Chef’s longstanding career started at The Taj Palace, New Delhi as the Chef de Partie in June 1993. He has worked with some of the finest properties across the world in different capacities and in culturally diverse surroundings, noted among them is the Taj Group of Hotels, Sheraton Dubai Creek, and Quality Inn Southern etc. He is a hotel management graduate from the National Council of Hotel Management Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition, Jaipur, and holds an MBA in Marketing.