Chef Anthony Huang Takes over as Executive Chef of JW Marriott Bengaluru

After a stint at the Kochi Marriott, where he helped launch the property, Chef Anthony En Yuan Huang returns to his home town, Bangalore to join the JW Marriott Bengaluru as Executive Chef.

BW Hotelier got to speak to Chef Huang about his achievements at Kochi Marriott and what lies ahead in his new challenging assignment.

“I think one of the crowning achievement at Kochi Marriott was inventing an imaginary character called Jimmy Rocks and then using the means of this person’s travels across India to bring to Kochi food from across the country, a different place every week,” Chef Huang told us.

That and of course the fact that he opened a hotel in a city which is notorious for its stickler for quality when it comes to cuisine. In fact, Chef Huang bagged the award for the Continent Chef of the Year, Asia Pacific, Marriott International in the year 2015 for his contributions.

When we asked him about his new assignment, Chef Huang was still a bit reticent. “I think its too early to say what is planned for the year ahead, I have just joined now,” he told us.

What he did say was taking up a lot of his waking hour was to come to grips with the immensity of the assignment, plenty of outlets, banqueting and a team of 100 chefs in the kitchen to start with, so he’s told his family to imagine he’s still in Kochi, at least until the big VIP visit over the weekend is over. We’re speaking about The World on a Plate food carnival featuring Matt Preston, George Colambaris and Gary Mehigan which takes place at the hotel on June 4-5, 2016 (details: http://www.worldonaplate.in).

Before joining Marriott, Chef Huang has worked in the Oberoi group and Hyatt.

Bikramjit Ray

BW Reporters Bikramjit Ray is Executive Editor of BW Hotelier.