Homegrown Staff
Chocolatier Varun Inamdar has worked in numerous five star kitchens across Mumbai and his desserts have found fans in the likes of Barack Obama, Nicolas Sarkozy and Vladimir Putin.
When he learned that India wasn’t being taken seriously in international forums he decided to prove them wrong and create a series of creative products that highlighted the best of what India has to offer.
Bean Therapy is the creation of Sanjay Solomon, a chef and chocolatier based out of Mumbai whose aim is to create the most exotic combination of flavours using the finest dark Belgian Callebaut chocolate mixed with typical Indian ingredients.
Chocolate master Toshin Shetty returned from his stint at Le Cordon Bleu in London with a passion to bring elite desserts to the Mumbai market. His artisanal chocolates, cakes and ice creams utilise the freshest and most varied ingredients he can get his hands on.
French couple Fabien and Jane Mason moved to the southern haven of Auroville, Pondicherry, and set up their remarkable venture in the world of chocolate. Jane, a raw food chef and vegan, was disappointed by the lack of options she had to choose from and decided to make her own with imported raw cocoa powder and cocoa butter.
Founded by Pragati Sawhney in 2011, Chockriti’s name comes from an amalgamation of the words ‘chocolate’ and ‘kriti’, the sanskrit word for creation. Sawhney, a dentist with a Masters in Public Health, started the company after learning that a majority of ‘homemade chocolate’ in India was made of artificial flavourings and vegetable oil instead of cocoa.
This company, set up in 2001 by Anuja and Ankita Jain, specialises in making personalised handcrafted goodies. They decided to create products that were unique and delicious, and that’s exactly what they’ve become known for.
Duo Kuhu Kochar and Tejasvi Chandela have been friends since their school days and today are putting their talents into a unique brand of artisanal chocolate. Tejasvi specialises in creating original recipes and Kuhu’s design skills ensure that they go out looking fabulous.