Meet the head chef behind the new Leeds restaurant Ma-Hé

Arjun Bhat moved from Chennai to Leeds take up the head chef role

Transcript

00:00 Right now we're sitting in this beautiful restaurant called Mahe Coastal.

00:04 It's been three months since we've opened.

00:07 I'm Chef Arjun.

00:08 I'm the head chef here.

00:10 So I basically come from Bangalore.

00:14 My roots are from Mangalore, so the coastal thing is in my blood.

00:18 So we have my history is like basically my family was into the hotel line.

00:26 So I always had an inclination towards this.

00:30 I did my business management, but then again got back into this.

00:36 So I trained at the Leela Palace, Bangalore, where I trained on the industry stalwarts

00:42 in the coastal cuisine.

00:44 So this is my strength.

00:46 Basically we serve coastal Indian authentic food here at Mahe Coastal.

00:52 So we have a lot of seafood that is predominant in our menu.

00:57 We have our favorites such as the soft shell crab, the sea bass which is wrapped in a banana

01:03 leaf.

01:04 We have the alopee prawn curry, which is a very authentic curry from Kerala, which is

01:10 one of our crowd favorites.

01:12 So these are a few of our favorite dishes that are here.

01:17 We also serve a lamb stew and a veg stew.

01:20 We serve a South Indian version of the korma, which is again a crowd favorite.

01:26 So this is about a few of the things that you get at Mahe.

01:29 We have just opened our lunch menu a week ago.

01:33 So we are serving dosas.

01:36 So basically you have different varieties of dosas.

01:38 You have masala dosa, plain dosa, butter dosa, ghee dosa, onion dosas, keema dosa, you name

01:45 it, you got it.

01:46 We also have this thing called kothu paratha, which I haven't seen the restaurants here

01:53 do it.

01:54 So you should come and try it.

01:55 It's basically Indian flatbread that is minced along with a spicy sauce, along with meat.

02:04 And for the vegetarians, we have vegetables.

02:06 So that's a special that you need to come and try.

02:10 We serve different curries.

02:11 We have a fish curry.

02:12 We have a veg curry.

02:13 We have a chicken curry that can be paired along with your parathas, that can be paired

02:18 along with your khal dosas and a ghee rice.

02:21 It's just been a week, but the response has been very, very good.

02:25 I would definitely like the people of Leeds to come and get an experience for yourself.