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Vijay Kumar Biography

Vijay Kumar is Executive Chef and co-owner of the Michelin-starred restaurant Semma in New York’s West Village, where he serves Southern Indian cuisine based on the dishes he used to help his mother prepare as a child growing up in Tamil Nadu. His early experiences of hunting deer and foraging for snails at his grandparents’ farm and cooking the results over an open fire inspired him to attend culinary school and have reemerged in his menus at Semma. Prior to his move to New York, Kumar spent 12 years working in California, latterly at Burlingame’s Michelin-starred Rasa. During his time there, Rasa was named The Bay Area’s Best Indian Restaurant by the San Francisco Chronicle. It earned a Michelin star in 2016 and subsequently retained it, a feat Kumar has since successfully repeated at Semma -- one of only a handful of Indian restaurants in the U.S. to hold this honor. Additionally, Kumar is the 2025 recipient of the James Beard Award for Best Chef: New York State.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 07/17/2025.

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