NDTV Food Awards 2025: Meet The Jury Who Picked The Best In India

The NDTV Food Awards 2025 came about on March 21, 2025, at JW Marriott in Goa. The evening introduced collectively the nation’s most interesting cooks, restauranteurs, meals content material creators and fans to honour the nation’s culinary excellence. Whether it was superb eating, informal cafes, or sustainable meals ventures, each nook of the meals world was represented on the occasion. And 73 eminent tastemakers from throughout India hand-picked the very best in 31 classes by a complete analysis course of. The jury featured a mix of seasoned professionals, every bringing distinctive views to the desk. Let’s meet the jury.

NDTV Food Awards 2025 Grand Jury:

The Grand Jury who chosen the highest eating places and cooks from throughout India comprised Shubham Bhatnagar, the Editor at NDTV Food and Travel, Praerna Kartha, the Content Head at NDTV Food and Travel, meals and journey writers Amit Dixit, Ruth Dsouza Prabhu and Sourish Bhattacharya, meals writers Ananya Banerjee, Ashwin Rajagopalan, Bindu Gopal Rao, Gautam Anand, Karen Anand, Maria Goretti, Nita Mehta, Odette Mascarenhas, and Pallavi Pasricha, filmmaker Hansal Mehta, grasp chef Manjit Gill, chef and digital content material creator Parth Bajaj, Sanjyot Keer and Tara Deshpande, way of life journalist Priya Pathiyan, TV present host and columnist Rashmi Uday Singh, meals chronicler Rocky Mohan, and chef and TV host Zarine Khan.

NDTV Food Awards 2025 Regional Jury:

A panel comprising regional tastemakers evaluated eligible entries throughout North, East, West, Central and South India. The winners had been shortlisted based mostly on culinary innovation, high quality and their general contribution to the meals and beverage trade.

From the North zone, the jury included meals journey and way of life journalist Geetika Sachdeva, beverage advisor and luxurious meals author Magandeep Singh, meals and journey journalists Neha Grover and Sushmita Srivastav, meals author and critic Pawan Soni, luxurious author and editor Priya Rana, meals content material creator Rahul Prabhakar, meals content material creator and authors Rocky Singh and Shivesh Bhatia, creator, culinary chronicler and advisor Rushina M Ghildiyal, meals and journey author Shibani Bawa, designer, artist and culinary advisor Tahir Sultan and content material creator Uma Raghuraman.

From the Central and East zones, the jury included Ankita Chakraborty and Rishi Raj Ghosh – the co-founders of Calcutta Cacophony, chef advisor Farah Naaz Laskar, author and meals content material creator Indrajit Lahiri, meals and movie author Poorna Banerjee, journalist and creator Pritisha Borthakur, meals and tradition author Priyadarshini Chatterjee, F&B advisor, meals author and content material creator Rukshana Kapadia, advisor chef and educator Sanjukta Das, content material strategist and culinary explorer Sibendu Das, meals columnist Subhajit Bhattacharya and creator of the ebook ‘Beyond Dalma’ Sweta Biswal.

From the West zone, the jury included meals and journey author Aatish Nath, Prachi Joshi and Insia Lacewalla, leisure and way of life journalist Deepali Dhingra, meals author and digital creator Kalyan Karmakar, architect Khushnu Panthaki Hoof, F&B author and hospitality advisor Nikhil Merchant and Priyanko Sarkar, meals and journey journalist Nivedita Jayaram Pawar and Rituparna Roy, journalist and creator Noor Mayal Khanna, journalist and meals author Phorum Pandya, journey author and photographer Rishad Saam Mehta, way of life author Shilpa Madan, F&B journalist and content material creator Smitha Menon and wine educator Sonal Holland.

From the South zone, the jury included the princess of Vijayanagaram Vidya Gajapathy Raju Singh, journey and way of life author Anita Rao Kashi, writers Aslam Gafoor and Priya Bala, recipe curator and cookbook creator Hina Gujral, meals, journey and way of life author Deepa Shri Rajan, culinary faculty director Nimmy Paul, advertising and marketing lead at Last9 Sahil Khan and meals curator and researcher Yogita Uchil.

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