Uddaloc Ghosh
Creative Team at Lupa, Bangalore
Uddaloc Ghosh is a chef who applies French discipline to Indian ingredients, creating dishes that evoke memories and emotions. With experience in fine dining and molecular gastronomy, he brings a unique culinary identity to the table. His approach to food is centered around restraint, respect, and the quiet joy of truly tasting something.
Experience
Oct 2025 – Present
Creative Team
Lupa, Bangalore
- Contributing to dish development and menu identity
- Cross-pollinating technique across two of the city's best restaurants simultaneously
Mar – Oct 2025
Creative Head — R&D
Iris Restaurants Group, Bangalore
- Designed and launched Idyll's entire tasting menu from scratch
- Engineered an Indian foie gras alternative using entirely local ingredients
Jun 2024 – Mar 2025
Chef de Partie
Farmlore, Bangalore
- Ran sections with zero tolerance for shortcuts
- Developed the product intuition that now underlies every dish I design
Mar – May 2024
Stagiaire
Restaurant David Toutain, Paris
- Fully integrated into service across sections
- Toutain's treatment of the vegetable as protagonist permanently restructured how I think about ingredient hierarchy
Feb 2023 – Jan 2024
Head of Kitchen Management & Operations
The Press Lab, Paris
- Ran kitchen operations solo
- Inventory, staff, and service delivery in a high-volume central Paris venue
Background
Skills
Tasting menu architecture & R&DSpherification & molecular gastronomySous-vide, fermentation, food preservationEuropean & Indian fine dining techniqueHACCP CertificationISO 9001
Education
Diplôme de Cuisine et Management Le Cordon Bleu, Paris; Bachelor — Film & Television Production Kalinga University, Bhubaneswar
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