RA 2025 PASS
Recognizing the best restaurant with delectable food and a delightful ambience.
INDIA’S ONLY REGISTERED
RESTAURANT AWARDS
Restaurant Awards 2025
Telangana Edition
Restaurant Awards 2025 – Telangana Edition is the ultimate recognition for excellence in the region’s F&B industry, celebrating visionary foodpreneurs, pioneering chefs, and brands that redefine dining standards.
This prestigious platform honours outstanding achievements, spotlighting innovation, creativity, and passion that shape the future of hospitality. Winning this accolade enhances credibility, elevates brand perception, and opens doors to new opportunities.
Submissions are now open — explore the right category, represent your region, and claim your place among the nation’s finest.
HYDERABAD EDITION Previous Jury
Chef Kunal Kapur
Celebrity Chef, Restaurateur
Chef Kunal Kapur
Celebrity Chef, Restaurateur
Chef Kunal Kapur is a well-recognised Indian celebrity chef, restaurateur, and media
personality known for his food-focused television shows, cookbook and hosting High dignitary’
events in the country.
He is well recognised by the Ministry of India and was given an opportunity to present Satvik
cuisine to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and German Chancellor Ms. Merkel, in Bangalore. He
also cooked for 42 first ladies on the India Africa Summit 2015 besides an interactive
cooking session with them during their visit to India.
He also had the opportunity to represent Indian Cuisine based on millets to the First Ladies
at the G20 Summit held in New Delhi in 2023.
Chef Kunal has an in-depth understanding of regional Indian cuisine having learnt it from the
best in the industry during his early career. He is equally adept with innovative Indian
cuisine that is at par with the best culinary standards in the world. He is known as the
Master of Kebab & Curries in India and has lent his expertise in the culinary domain to
over
80 restaurants in India & internationally.
Rakesh Ranjan
CEO- Food Delivery, Zomato
Rakesh Ranjan
CEO- Food Delivery, Zomato
Rakesh Ranjan is CEO - Food Delivery Business at Zomato. He joined Zomato as the Global Sales and Operations Head for the food delivery business in 2017 before being promoted to several key roles; including CEO for its Hyperpure business. Before joining Zomato, Rakesh worked with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as the project leader and worked across multiple sectors with a focus on business turnaround, growth, portfolio strategy, and large-scale organization-wide transformation. He has also been associated with two portfolio firms of Blackstone as the business manager where he was responsible for growth (horizontal across the value chain) and new markets. Rakesh has also worked as a Principal Consultant with the Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) in its strategy vertical. A post graduate from Indian School of Business in Finance and Marketing, Rakesh has been a receiver of scholarship of merit. He has his bachelor’s degree in electronics from Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology.
Chef Chalapathi Rao
Entrepreneur, Simply South
Chef Chalapathi Rao
Entrepreneur, Simply SouthChef Chalapathi Rao is an entrepreneur. His entrepreneurial venture is named “Simply South by Chef Chalapathi Rao”. The restaurant has redefined the popular South Indian cuisines and has preserved its rich cultural and culinary heritage. The venture, as well as Chef Chalapati Rao has won numerous accolades from highly esteemed organizations. A highly self-motivated and resourceful Chef, Chef Chalapathi Rao is constantly reinventing his age-old recipes to provide evolved culinary experience to the restaurant's patrons. He is presently in the quest for expanding his venture to global destinations. In addition, Chef Challu - as he is fondly known - by the hospitality and culinary industries - is a high-class content writer. He has authored several concept notes, stories and articles on cuisine for diverse print media. Chef Challu's professional career has spanned over 25 years. Earlier in his career, Chef Challu was the highly acclaimed and successful brand custodian as well as Master Chef of the Dakshin brand - while employed with ITC Hotels. In between his ITC Hotels career of almost two decades and his entrepreneurial journey, Chef Challu was the Corporate Chef with a major hotel group based at Hyderabad
Ritu Marya
Editor-in-Chief, Franchise Media
Entrepreneur India & Asia-Pacific
Ritu Marya
Editor-in-Chief, Franchise Media Entrepreneur India & Asia-PacificRitu Marya is the Editor- in- Chief for Entrepreneur India-Asia-Pacific and Franchise India Media, a group company of Franchise India Holdings Limited. She is the Group Editor and leads the editorial desk which comprises business magazines including Entrepreneur, The Franchising World and Retailer together with the Digital media arm of Entrepreneur.com, Franchiseindia.com, wellnessindia.com, indianretailer.com and restaurantindia.in. In her tryst with Business Journalism over the last 16 years, Ritu is regarded as an authority on Startups, Entrepreneurship, Technology, Fintech, AI, Blockchain, Consumer Businesses, Retail, Luxury to Education, Restaurant, Funding and more. In her role as the Group Editor she meets and interacts with Leading Indian and Global Entrepreneurs and thought-leaders while tracking Startup and Entrepreneurial and consumer business landscape in India and Asia-Pacific.
Dr. R Ravichandar
Chairman & Managing Director, Nandhana Group
Dr. R Ravichandar
Chairman & Managing Director, Nandhana GroupDr. R Ravichandar is one of the pioneers in bringing authentic Andhra style delicacies to Bengaluru. The entrepreneurial journey of Dr. R Ravichandar began in the year 1997 as an Executive Director by establishing a standalone restaurant in the style of “Nandhana Palace” at Rajaji Nagar and built the brand from the ground up. When the IT revolution swept through Bengaluru, Dr. R Ravichandar sensed an opportunity to fuel the growth of Nandhana through his innovations to cook signature dishes and introduce multi-cuisine delicacies. Two decades later, his determination and hard work metamorphosed Nandhana into the largest repository of regional cuisine food chain, “Adding Spice to life” with uncompromised quality and service standards in South India. Under Dr. R Ravichandar’s leadership, Nandhana witnessed diversification from Food to hospitality and ventured into Sweets & Savories, Indoor & Outdoor Catering under the umbrella of Nandhana Group. As a testament to his tremendous contribution, Dr. R Ravichandar earned numerous accolades year after year from prestigious regional and national institutions, associations and federations, including Doctorate by the Open International University for Complimentary Medicines, Colombo. Dr. R Ravichandar continues to inspire other aspiring entrepreneurs and shares his insights through his affiliations with FKCCI, FH&RA, SIHRA and ASSOCHAM.
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This Category recognises Night Clubs/Bars that demonstrates the best ambience,food & liquor.
This category recognises the best bakeries which offers outstanding value, excellent food and appropriate service.
This category recognises a Restaurant/Bar/Bakery that has the best interiors
This category recognises caterers/unique concepts/customer experiences and cloud kitchens.
This category recognises restaurateurs/chefs/sommeliers who have demonstrated outstanding qualities.
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