Nitin has completed more than 25 years in the Food & Beverage Industry. Having worked as a chef
with Taj Hotels and Hotel Oberoi’s kitchen in the initial 8 years of his career, he was inspired to open
his first dessert store in 1992. The next three milestones that followed were – Pot Pourri, Lemongrass
Café and Seijo and Soul Dish. In the year 2012, he was voted as one of the top 50 Master Chefs in
India by the Indian Culinary Forum.
Currently, he is the founder and chief stylist at “Nitin Tandon Food Stills & Video Production”.
It’s a production house with a team of stylists and photographers that cater to any kind of Food Styling
and photography assignments. The studio also churns out many Digital Videos and other food video
content for social media marketing. Rising from a single owned Food Stylist as an Organisation that
now has gone way beyond just food styling.
Nitin Tandon has worked on countless brands for fine dine restaurants and cafés, print ads, TVCs ,
feature films, web series, etc. He has worked on various assignments for industry giants like KFC, ITC
Food, McDonalds, Amul, Vadilal, Dominos, Pizza Hut, Starbucks, Tata Cliq, Maggi, Nestle, etc. He has
also shown is magic in many feature films like Ki & Ka, Lunchbox, Robot, Cheeni Kum, Dear Zindagi,
Ghayal Once again, Mission Mangal, etc.
Amongst the innumerable accolades earned along the way, one of his prized features in his cap is the
award for the “Best Food Stylist”, presented at the ZEE Living Foodz Powerlist Awards 2016.
1. Awarded as “Chef Entrepreneur of the year 2022” by Chef Connect 2022 & WICA (Western Indian
Culinary Association.
2. Most Admirable Chef Award, Asia Chapter by World Food Congress 2022
2. Award for the “Best Food Stylist”, presented at the ZEE Living Foodz Powerlist Awards 2016.
3. In 2012, voted as one of the top 50 Master Chefs in India by the Indian Culinary Forum.
4. Only Indian nomination for Pink Lady Food Photography of the year 2020.
5. Food Photo Affair 2020/21 Exhibition Finalist.
Nitin Tandon has been an inspiring speaker at many events, seminars, webinars, etc.
1. Workshop with all the Chefs and their team at Taj Resorts & Convention Centre, Goa, 2022
2. Workshop for Goa Culinary Conclave 2022
3. Workshop by NRAI Hyderabad for The India Restaurant Conclave 2022 on Customer Acquisition
and Brand Building through Food Photography.
4. Speaker for AHAR 42nd Annual General Meeting, 2022 on “Adapting to the New Wave in F&B.”
5. IFBA 2021 Jury Member and lecture on Food Photography organised by Vikhroli Cucina & FBAI
6. Webinar on Food Styling & Photography by NFCI 2021
7. Live session for DY Patil University on “Food Styling as a Profession”, 2020
8. Food Photography & advertising, a talk show for live online audience along with Photographer
Bharat Bhirangi, 2020
9. Webinar on “Food Styling: Making students future ready for the food industry” by LPU, 2020
10. Webinar & Live talk show on Food in Motion with motion stylist Goldwin Fonseca, 2020
11. Speaker and Influencer on 2 separate sessions for Capturing Wow Global Summit 2020.
12. Talk Show on “5 Keys to Running a successful Bakery” by Bakery Business 14th Edition, 2019
13. Speaker & Talk show event #FBAIDialogues by the FBAI 2016.
14. Speaker at the event by Inspire Young India, 2017
15. Food Styling & Photography workshop at Food Studios in the year 2017 in association with Burrp.
16. Session done for The FBAI & Godrej event #HomeChefMatters 2.0 Lost Recipes
17. Seminar & Talk show Speaker for Bakery Business 2019 on Creating Brand intensity for Bakery.
18. Webinar along with Chef Harpal Sokhi on The Journey of Media Chefs, 2020
19. Jury of The FBAI Food Bloggers Association India) in the year 2017.
