“Food connects hearts. When you share a meal, you share a piece of your soul.” – Sunit Sharma

Nirmal’s is proud to welcome our new Corporate Executive Chef Sunit Sharma. He joins us after a 27 year career as an accomplished chef working with the world leaders in hospitality like The Ritz Carlton, The Taj, Starwood Hotels and Planet Hollywood and Cidade de Goa. He started Modern Hospitality Consultants with his partner Vaishali to assist in starting new hotels and restaurants, upgrading running hospitality businesses, curating bespoke destination weddings and elite caterings.

Highlights of his career include setting the Guinness Book of World Records three times – largest fish cake (2017), largest chocolate mudpie (2018) and largest bread pudding (2019). He has been recognized for his outstanding contribution to the culinary world as Certified Executive Chef by the International Federation of Chef’s Associations (IFCA), Outstanding Culinary leader 2023, Star Chef 2019 by IFCA, Chef of the Year-runner-up 2017 by Hotelier India magazine, and Outstanding Chef by Exito Yes Chef Conclave in 2017.

Chef Sunit is an  active member of Chaine des Rotisseurs since 2006, an international association of gastronomy for Chefs and Gourmands.  A keen supporter and member of Slow Food, Italy, since 2005 (supporting clean, fair-trade and traditional foods), the Chefs for Peace initiative in the Middle East and Slow Food Chefs Alliance- India.  He was listed by Hospitality Biz among the “ 50 Master Chefs of India- (2012 and 2014), he was nominated among the “Top 3 Chefs of Goa” by the Department of Tourism- Govt of Goa in 2013 and has won several awards in competitions like the “Taj Culinary Olympics 2000”, “All India Chefs Competition”.

Chef Sunit has been recognized for exceptional culinary skills with regular features in newspapers, magazines and showcased on NDTV 24*7 “Will Travel for Food” twice. He participated in “Salone del Gusto” & “Terra Madre” Turin, Italy 2006, 2008 and 2010 of “Slowfood” as a Chef-Demonstrator.

Chef Sunit is a firm believer in traditional and local food and member of WICA/ IFCA/WACS since 2007. He has worked hard to gather the Chefs in Goa under one umbrella and currently is the “Vice President of Culinary Forum of Goa”. An active member and keen innovator to make Goan food more popular by working on “Inspired Goan Flavours” as “Vice President  of Culinary Club of Goa” over 5 years.

Chef Sunit has a Bachelors Degree in Arts with Economics from Osmania University and a Diploma in Hotel Management from Institute of Hotel Management Hyderabad. His entire schooling was done in DBMS School, Jamshedpur.