Niyati Rao
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Abraham & Thakore

Conservation

At its heart lies a simple idea: food and fabric belong to each other. Both are shaped by land and labour. They carry the imprint of time and reflect the people who create them. This table uses India’s distinctive weaves as a narrative map to translate how the two disciplines of cuisine and textile design speak the same cultural language.

We are reinterpreting India’s weaving traditions with every course reflecting the undeniable influence of what we wear. Kasavu, Chanderi, Khadi, Pashmina, Paithani and Chikankari are referenced not as motifs, but as ways of understanding how materials store knowledge. The coming together of food and fashion is reiterated in the textiles - like warp and weft forming a unifying tapestry for this experience.

Come experience how fabric and food hold our rituals, shape our communities, and preserve our inheritance. Chef Niyati Rao brings precision, restraint and radical imagination while design duo Abraham & Thakore contribute their quiet power, modern minimalism and deep-rooted design knowledge. Together, they create a world where textile and cuisine speak to each other and tell you a story.

Doma Wang & Sachiko Seth
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Udit Mittal

Exploration

Not all stories worth being told begin in dining rooms; some begin in quiet, unglamorous spaces where life unfolds before anyone is looking. Chef Doma Wang’s story starts in a noodle factory in Kalimpong - a place where dough was mixed by hand at dawn and bamboo poles doubled as tools of labour. Noodles hung overhead like soft, swaying constellations. It is this tender and industrious world that forms the heart of our one-time-only culinary installation.

Designed by architect Udit Mittal, the experience does not merely recreate chef’s childhood; it interprets it with the sensitivity of an artist who understands that memory is rarely linear. Beginning with the table, the shape that holds us together, bamboo strips unfurl across the room, meandering around columns, catching the light, creating a landscape that is translucent and dreamlike.

This dinner is less about nostalgia and more about inheritance- the lessons carried from a factory floor to a national stage, from flour-dusted mornings to the precision of a contemporary kitchen. For once only, step into a life lived with craft, humility, and quiet devotion where the humble noodle becomes poetry.

Bawmra Jap
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Pablo Bartholomew

Exploration

Mapping the unique identity of the Kachin people across Northern Burma, Northeast India, and Yunnan, this is a celebration of cross-border culinary identity. At Highland Crossroads, food becomes a map of migration, memory, and mountain air. Conceived by Chef Bawmra Jap in collaboration with Artist- Photographer Pablo Bartholomew, this table traces the shared identity of the Kachin people across northern Burma, northeast India, and Yunnan.

Through pickled tea leaves, tamarind pork, and wild herbs, it captures the clean, untamed spirit of the highlands- a place where cultures blur and boundaries dissolve. Pablo’s visual storytelling and Bawmra’s deeply personal cuisine merge to create an experience that is at once intimate and expansive: a taste of land, lineage, and light.

This is food as anthropology and art - a journey through borderlands of both geography and imagination.

Priyam Chatterjee & Rishabh Seal
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Two Odd (Akshita Garud)

Innovation

Is home a place, or a feeling you can return to? The contemporary search for home is the ultimate act of curation. Join us as we explore a sense of belonging as something assembled rather than inherited. Forming quietly through people, memories, objects, and moments that shape us as we move through the world. It reflects what lingers as everything shifts.

Rooted in expressionism, this table allows intuition and abstraction to guide form. Our collaborators share a commonality in carving individuality by embracing paths outside the traditional grain. This shared language through the unconventional has led to work innately tied to subversion and expressionism. Here, food behaves like art, unbound by classical hierarchies, while plates become canvases for gesture and intent. Some dishes feel like a return. Others suggest departure. Together, they trace the in-between spaces where belonging is sensed but never named.

Come witness belonging through the lens of our collaborators. Together, chefs Priyam Chatterjee and Rishabh Seal, along with artist Two Odd (Akshita Garud), redefine home as a feeling of being held: intimate, fluid, and deeply personal.

Chef Ralph Prazeres
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Artist Ankon Mitra

Innovation

We are folding the two worlds that have shaped Chef Ralph Prazeres into one inimitable contemporary bistro as the finesse of European fine dining meets the warmth of the sunny shores of Goa. Join us to explore the flavours from chef’s childhood in Goa through the lens of his training in classical European technique. This table reflects the quiet power of knowing both worlds well enough to let them meet naturally. Each plate shows a respect for origin and an understanding of how technique can deepen flavour without overwhelming it. European methods form the backbone of this meal, while Goan ingredients, aromas, and flavour profiles add depth and personality.

Ankon Mitra interprets this duality by folding shapes into forms where familiar elements are recontextualised into something entirely new. Come experience the melding of Goa and France through a sum of their constantly evolving parts for one weekend only.