Contact Details
Shaibya Patel
+91 99675 51706
fromudayanskitchen@gmail.com
Every meeting with Udayan was a feast in more than one way: a feast for the palate, a feast
for the mind, a feast for the eye, a feast of wit and humour. He could be trusted to rustle up
exquisite dishes. The spread was eclectic. It included recipes from across India and indeed
from across many parts of the world. He held forth on food - and indeed on books and art
and politics -with an enthusiasm that never flagged.
You could count on him to give you - in between remarks on a work of Akbar Padamsee he
had just acquired - clear instructions about how to make a sweet and chilli-hot Andhra
chutney or a Bohri biryani or a Surati undiyo or a Gujarati kadhi or a Hyderabadi keema. I
have tried these recipes often with a measure of success.
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-Dileep Padgaokar
Even the dishes I had hated all my life came alive at Anuradha & Udayan’s home.
I only realized I had an appetite when I ate at Anuradha & Udayan’s home.
-Rajiv
We have had the pleasure of knowing both Udayan & Shaibya Patel and savoured their fine cooking. With
Udayan it was always in his home where food and conversation were both excellent.Shaibya has taken lessons well learned from her father onto another level for a larger circle of perhaps
people who never knew her late father's cooking or hers.
She has succeeded in doing this and both my husband Aurobind and I have enjoyed the taste and the
professionalism of her food. In a city where ordering in has often lost the flavour of a home kitchen,
Shaibya’s has a personal touch.The benchmark of good food delivered to your door!
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-Ketaki Sheth
Udayan was a second father to us. His special gift was to make people feel better about themselves, to lift them from the trenches when things were going wrong.
The main way Udayan showed affection to his family and numerous friends was to cook aided by his cook Ashok and his daughter Shaibya, while his wife Anuradha quietly made sure everything that was needed for the feasts was available and arrangements were made for last-minute guests, of whom there were always a few. Udayan's Bombay flat was always crowded with people enjoying good food, conversation and drink. Udayan collected and cooked some recipes I have eaten no where else. Of those that I have eaten elsewhere, they don't come anywhere close to being as sublime as what came out of his kitchen. Udayan's personality and his food reflected the best cliches about Gujaratis, about cosmopolitan Bombay, and above all his huge heart for life, people and love.
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-Uttara Shahani
