Sunday, December 9, 2012

F&B Professional of the Year: Rajesh Namby, Leela Palace


Captain Nair will probably kill me for saying this but until the Leela Palace opened in Delhi, I never rated the group very highly in cuisine terms (except for the south Indian food), and certainly never for F&B service. That the new hotel should be such a breakthrough with some of Delhi’s finest restaurants and the best F&B service in town is due to many factors (including the interest that the good Captain and his son Dinesh take in the food) but much of the credit goes to one man.
As F&B supremo at the Leela Palace, Rajesh Namby has transformed and overhauled the Leela group’s image in the F&B world and introduced standards of service not previously associated with the Leela. Like all good professionals, Namby is a backroom boy and even other hoteliers in Delhi would not recognise him if they passed him in the street. But his record now speaks for itself.

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