MUMBAI, September 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Paving the way for the hospitality industry, Mr. Zorawar Kalra, Founder and Managing Director of Massive Restaurants Pvt. Ltd. becomes the first restaurateur to be felicitated with the most prestigious 'GQ Men of the Year 2017' recently held at the Grand Hyatt, Mumbai.
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The event conceptualized to recognize and reward select outstanding gentlemen in India from different sectors, witnessed Mr. Zorawar Kalra bag the award for a spectacular growth trajectory in his professional career. A pioneer and innovator, Zorawar Kalra is the first restaurateur in India to be awarded for setting a benchmark in excellency of service and hospitality in India and serving Indian cuisine on the international palate.
Zorawar Kalra comments, "GQ is a publication that exemplifies quality and class. The Men of the Year awards honour people from across the country ranging from the fields of business to the arts. These individuals represent the best of the best. Being a part of this ceremony alone is huge. Winning an award as one of the 'Men of the Year' could be considered as the pinnacle of achievement of anyone's career. Here's to many more years of celebrating the spirit of achievement through these awards."
Zorawar Kalra, also known as the 'Man with a Vision on a Mission' and 'the Prince of Indian cuisine', amongst his peers is one of the youngest, most successful restaurateurs in India. Amalgamating his penchant for Indian food with his natural business acumen, Mr. Zorawar has introduced some of the most genre-defining restaurant concepts in India as well as internationally. He has won accolades like the 50 Most Influential Young Indians, 2017 by GQ India, winning this prestigious honour for three consecutive years - 2017, 2016 and 2015, Forty Under 40 - India's Hottest Young Business Leaders 2016 by The Economic Times.
With a rich heritage spanning over four decades, he is also the most recognised Indian culinary face on the global stage renowned for reintroducing Indian cuisine to a global audience. This year itself, Mr. Zorawar Kalra has made history at the World Luxury Restaurants Awards 2017, winning global titles for serving the Best Molecular Cuisine at the Genre Defining Modern Indian Restaurant, Masala Library by Jiggs Kalra. Under the leadership of Mr. Zorawar Kalra, Massive Restaurants has won over 19 prestigious awards across multiple categories within the first year of its launch.
Under its umbrella are revolutionary, trendsetting, critically acclaimed, multi-award winning and iconic brands like the premium progressive Indian cuisine restaurant Masala Library by Jiggs Kalra. Masala Library, the magnum opus of Mr. Jiggs Kalra, is considered among the best restaurants in India, having won over 15 prestigious awards within the first year of its launch in October 2013, being appreciated by both diners and critics alike.
With the recent launch of KODE in Mumbai, a cuisine agnostic modern 'freestyle' bar and kitchen, Massive Restaurants aims not only to put Indian cuisine on a global platform but also bring home delicacies from around the globe to the Indian diners. The multi-award winning, critically acclaimed, revolutionary modern Indian bistro Farzi Café, best described as a gourmet experience, amalgamates traditional global cuisine, with Indian influences, contemporary presentations, culinary styles and ambiance with the aim to bring Indian cuisine back 'in Vogue'.
Also part of the Massive Restaurants portfolio is the multi-award winning, critically acclaimed modern pan-Asian bistro concept Pa Pa Ya which offers a high energy dining experience while reinventing Asian cuisine on a global scale. MasalaBar, the fifth concept, aims to completely revolutionise Indian nightlife. MasalaBar is a mixological exploration and uses some of the most advanced equipment in an almost laboratory experience showcasing the pinnacle of innovation in world hospitality. Made in Punjab, the smart casual restaurant concept, serving traditional cuisine from the Punjab province, offers culinary masterpieces from the regions surrounding the five rivers in a rustic-chic avatar. Amalgamating serious dining and a fun brewery atmosphere under one roof, Massive Restaurants is all set to launch BBQ'D, a modern, cutting-edge grill and brewery concept that endeavours to showcase global delicacies, including local favourites, from around the world in a very innovative and contemporary fashion. Also in works is a new signature gourmet Indian confectionary concept, which will be yet another signature 'by Jiggs Kalra' concept to be introduced, shortly.
About Zorawar Kalra:
Zorawar Kalra, a Master's in Business Administration from Boston's Bentley Business University, with an entrepreneurial bent of mind and a genetic love for food, over the years, has ostensibly studied the Indian food & beverage market, introducing some of the most genre defining restaurant concepts in Indian cuisine. Counted amongst one of the youngest, successful restaurateurs of India, he has amalgamated a penchant for Indian food with his natural business acumen and a rich heritage spanning over four decades in the Indian culinary space and hospitality industry. Considered as the 'Man with a Vision on a Mission' and 'the Prince of Indian cuisine', he has recently been recognized amongst the 50 Most Influential Young Indians, 2017 by GQ India, winning this prestigious honour for three consecutive years - 2017, 2016 and 2015, Forty Under 40 - India's Hottest Young Business Leaders 2016 by The Economic Times & Spenser Stuart, 'Restaurateur of the Year Award, 2014', Vir Sanghvi Awards, HT Crystals, 2014 and 'Entrepreneur of the Year in Service Business - F & B Services', Entrepreneur India Awards, 2014.
About Massive Restaurants Pvt. Ltd.
The company currently operates under four critically-acclaimed, award-winning brand verticals of premium fine dining restaurants with the signature Masala Library by Jiggs Kalra, the smart casual dining restaurants with the brand Made in Punjab, the modern Indian bistro concept Farzi Café and modern pan-Asian bistro concept Pa Pa Ya and MasalaBar, offering a cutting-edge, post-modern, scientific laboratory style bar experience to revolutionise the Indian nightlife. With the launch of its sixth concept - KODE, a cuisine agnostic modern 'freestyle' bar and kitchen, offering a post-modern, post-molecular dining experience, Massive Restaurants endeavours to revolutionize and re-invent modern global cuisine in a new freestyle avatar. Amalgamating serious dining and a fun brewery atmosphere under one roof, Massive Restaurants is all set to launch BBQ'D, a modern, cutting-edge grill and brewery concept that endeavours to showcase global delicacies, including local favourites, from around the world in a very innovative and contemporary fashion. Also in works is a new signature gourmet Indian confectionary concept, which will be yet another signature 'by Jiggs Kalra' concept to be introduced, shortly.
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