Located in the buzzing Keong Saik Road dining enclave, Ahāra is chef-owner Vikramjit Roy’s rock ballad to India. Through both food and art, Roy’s first restaurant in Singapore, is a reflection of his roots and culinary journey that has taken him across the seas from India to Japan.
At Ahāra, the erudite chef draws from India’s rich diverse history, culture, traditions and creative arts to offer a luxe, unpretentious, yet studied experience of India’s overlapping regionalities and communities while blending the legacy of many lifetimes.
Ahāra occupies the 1,300 square feet ground floor of a pre-war shophouse, an architectural style synonymous with the neighbourhood. The restaurant is designed in tandem with Chef Roy’s cuisine, to celebrate the multiplicity of India’s culture, tradition and community. The 32-seater refined dining restaurant offers intimacy without pretension or formality. The eye is compelled to rest upon the statement-making repurposed, restructured fabric sculptures by iconoclastic designer Kallol Datta suspended from the ceiling. Datta’s spectacularly unorthodox works, powerfully defy convention and set the tone for Ahāra’s revisionist definition of food as the root of all well-being.