Rao and Neve's Ekaa focusses on ingredients to sharpen combinations and techniques to create unique, complex and diverse flavours
Niyati Rao | 28
Head chef, Ekaa; co-founder Ekaa and KMC
Sagar Neve | 29
Co-founder, Ekaa and KMC
Four months into her internship at the renowned Copenhagen restaurant Noma, Niyati Rao, 28, was forced to return to Mumbai due to the pandemic in 2020.
The idea to launch a concept restaurant with a focus on ingredients was born when Rao, a fine dining chef who previously worked at Taj hotel’s Zodiac Grill and Wasabi by Morimoto, reconnected with an old colleague, Sagar Neve, 29, during the lockdown.
(This story appears in the 10 February, 2023 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)