Private Chef
Personalized Indian dining experiences with menus shaped around each occasion.
Private Chef | Indian Cuisine | Restaurant Consulting
Indian culinary craft.
Personal by design.
I'm Chef Arun Kumar Selvam, bringing experience in private dining, regional Indian food, large-scale catering and restaurant kitchen development.
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10,000GUEST EVENT EXPERIENCE
01 / About the chef
Trained in hospitality.
Driven by cooking.
I have worked in restaurants since 2012 and earned a B.Sc. in Hotel Management. My approach combines formal hospitality education with years of restaurant service, creative menu development and practical kitchen execution.
For the past two years at Hyderabad Stories in Cockeysville, Maryland, I have created menu items and cooked the dishes served there. My specialties include Hyderabadi cuisine, Indian curries, tandoor cooking and Indo-Chinese dishes.
02 / Services
From intimate dining to opening a restaurant.
Large Catering
Outdoor culinary production experience for major events serving up to 10,000 guests.
Restaurant Opening Support
Launch planning, kitchen preparedness, menu execution and practical opening support.
Kitchen Setup Ideas
Equipment and station layout suggestions, prep workflows and efficient kitchen organization.
Menu Creation
Regional Indian dishes, recipe development, menu structure and preparation systems.
Kitchen Operations
Workflow organization, production planning and practical culinary coordination.
03 / Signature cuisine
Hyderabadi Biryani.
Layered rice dishes, slow-cooked spice combinations and signature Indian flavors are at the heart of my craft. I also work across Indian curries, tandoor specialties and Indo-Chinese cuisine.
The biryani photograph is a real, licensed photograph for illustration and is not presented as a photo of my own dish.
Photograph: Garrett Ziegler, licensed CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
04 / Experience
Helping restaurant concepts come to life.
My professional restaurant opening and kitchen setup experience includes the following locations.
HBK
Tampa, Florida
Hyderabad Stories
Cockeysville, Maryland
Persis
Lake Mary, Florida
05 / Connect
Let's make your next experience memorable.
For private chef experiences, catering, restaurant launch projects, kitchen setup ideas and menu development collaborations.
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