My name is Hari Om, owner chef of RAANi, and I am from New Delhi, India.
My grandfather and father ran an Indian restaurant in New Delhi called "Siyalkoti".
My career as a chef started at Siyalkoti, and I worked there for four years.
I then worked at the
Taj Mahal Hotel
for three years as a trainee.
During these three years, I was sent to work in Jaipur,
Udaipur(Taj Lake Palace)
and Mumbai (for flight catering).
After three years as a trainee, I was promoted to chef and was transferred to the
Taj Palace Hotel,
which was owned by the same company as the Taj Mahal Hotel.
While I was working at the Taj Palace Hotel, I used to cook meals for Giani Zail Singh (ex president), Indira Gandhi (ex prime minister) and Rajiv Gandhi (ex prime minister). When I left the Taj Palace Hotel, I moved to Hong Kong, where I was head chef at Indian restaurant "Mayur" for one year. In 1985, I moved to Japan and worked as head chef at restaurant "Akbar" for 11 years. During this time I developed a strong desire to introduce the most delicious Indian food to customers in Japan, and finally in 1998, I decided to open my own restaurant, "RAANi".
I always try to cater to guests' special requests such as, "I would like to have a specific regional Indian (or near India) curry that I ate when I visited India," etc... If you have a similar request, please feel free to contact us. We will try to accommodate your wishes, including arranging for necessary special ingredients. The flavor of our regular selection of 16 curries can also be modified to suit your taste preference. Please feel free to tell us when you order.
My name is Hari Mohan, younger brother of Hari Om.
I trained at my father's restaurant for a year and then joined the Taj Lake Palace
in Udaipur as a chef. I worked there for ten years, and in 1987,
I became chef at another Indian restaurant called "Chicken Coner".
My name is Deepak, second brother of Hari Om.
I also started cooking at my father's restaurant.
After two years of training, I got a position at the ITC Maurya Sheraton Hotel and towers in 1982 and worked
there for 8 years.
I then moved to Japan and worked at Indian restaurants
"Akbar" and "Bhojan".
After working as a chef in those restaurants for 11 years, I joined RAANi in 2000.
My name is Suraj, youngest brother of Hari Om.
I also started cooking when I worked at my father's restaurant for 4 years.
I then came to Japan to work as a chef at Japanese Indian restaurant
"Mandala" for 4 years.
I have been a chef at RAANi since 1998.
How do you do! My name is Tomomi. I'm joining to RAANi since spring 2003.
I was one of guest of RAANi before joining to RAANi.
Until then I went to many Indian restaurant with my friend.
I found RAANi is my most favorite type. So I came to RAANi several times.
I made friends with RAANi's staff. And then I'm joining them.
At first it was very hard for me to memorize the name of Indian food menu.
But it was no problem, because every staff teach me so kindly.
And every staff are very interesting and very good person.
Hari is so serious man and he likes to keep neat and clean.
Hari Mohan is usually cool person. But sometimes he change to funny person.
Deepak is always smiling and dancing.
Suraj loves joke. And he pick fights with me most in every staff.
RAANi is open by such interesting persons.
And we have a saying in the company that happy and joyful.
Please come to our resuaurast as a trial. I swear it will very good taste.
RAANi will steal your heart.
My name is YOSHIE and I'm working at RAANi from June 2004.
I love India and Indian food.
So I'd always wanted to get work that is closely related to india.
I'm having a great time at RAANi because of every staff is very frank and kind.
And I think RAANi's Indian cuisine is very very good.
I think RAANi's Indian cuisine is more fine flavor than I ever ate Indian restaurant even in India.
And RAANi's nan!, it's most soft and "MOCHI-MOCHI" feeling that I ever ate in my life.
Please try it! I think RAANi make you feel infinite satisfaction if you love curry.
Could you please come to RAANi. We are waiting for you to have our home made Indian food and
friendly staff. We hope you like it.
My name is Saki. I'm doing desk work and a web manager.
And I assist cooking class. Please tell us what do you feel about
our web page. And ask anything about our restaurant and web page.