Kunal Kapur

Kunal Kapur

Views: 7184

Category: Television

Kunal Kapur Profile

  • Name:
  • Kunal Kapur
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Delhi

Kunal Kapur Biography

Kunal Kapur is an Indian celebrity chef who became popular with cooking reality show on Star Plus, Master Chef India. He was one among the three judges of the show, for all the three seasons starting from October 2010. His successful association with this program was started by superstar Akshay Kumar, who was the presenter and host of the show. Kunal is proficient in Indian cuisines and at present, he is the executive souse chef at Leela Kempinski, Gurgaon. He has entered his name in Limca Book Of Records for creating India’s Largest "Chocolate Tower”. He was recently awarded the prestigious Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship in the field of Food & Beverage by the Government of New Zealand.


Kunal Kapur is of Punjab origin born in Delhi. Cooking was his passion from a younger age. His father and grandfather were interested in cooking and young Kunal too had this passion. He learnt cooking from both these persons too. Though his family was full of bankers, he decided to choose cooking as his career. He joined Institute of Hotel Management, Chandigarh to pursue his dreams. His career started in early 2000’s and he joined Taj group of hotels. Later he accumulated work experience working under different groups. Later he joined Leela Kempinski, Gurgaon. He has also opened a restaurant of his own.


2008 was the noted milestone of his career when he was assigned the title, "The next big guy in kebabs and curries in India" by India today. Thus he became one of the top chefs of India. When a cookery competition was organized in Star Plus, Akshay Kumar, the superstar of Bollywood was the choice of celebrity guest, as he was a chef before joining film industry. Kunal, alongside Executive Chef at Goa Marriott Resort, Ajay Chopra were chosen as judges. This program was a big success, as it was an experiment on small television for the first time. Thus Kunal got opportunity to judge its next two seasons too. Not only that, he has also appeared as a guest judge on one of the episodes of Season 2 of Master Chef USA.

More Information about Kunal Kapur

Judge of the TV series MasterChef IndiaSeason 1, 2 and 3 on Star Plus.

Published: N/A

Updated: October 28, 2013

Famous People: By Profession

 
 

Suggest Chandan Prabhakar profile update

captcha image (Can't see? refresh)