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Meet Dayashankar Sharma, or Chef Sharma as most people call him, head chef of South Woodford's Grand Trunk Road. Since 2016 Chef Sharma and co-founder Rajesh Suri have been recreating the dishes that can be found along a 2,000-mile road which stretches from Bangladesh...

Rajesh Suri, former general manager of Tamarind in Mayfair, has teamed up with its head chef Dayashankar Sharma to launch a new site. The man behind the capital’s first Michelin-starred Indian restaurant is setting up shop in an east London suburb. Rajesh Suri,...

Grand Trunk Road restaurant is Indian cuisine in South Woodford. It’s Essex, or London, depending on from which way you come. I headed out of East London to the suburb on the edge of Epping Forest, already looking forward to it being a successful meal and (finally)...

All chefs have the same story. It begins in the kitchens of their mothers and grandmothers. My own mother was a wonderful cook and she is the one who sparked my lifelong interest in food,” says Chef Dayanshakar Sharma, whose London restaurant, Grand Trunk Road, was...

The reputation of The Grand Trunk Road goes before it.  Chef  Dayashankar Sharma was head chef at Michelin-starred Mayfair Indian restaurant Tamarind. and Kensington classic Zaika while the owner, Rajesh Suri’s restaurateur credentials hail...

Trained from honing an impeccable reputation right from the beginning across 32 years of culinary experience, chef Dayashankar Sharma has become recognised for his contemporary ideas and creating his food with full commitment and passion. He has...

Chef Dayashankar Sharma adds “My childhood memories around food have inspired me to become a chef... I understood at a very early age... (Thanks to my Mother’s exceptional cooking) that food Is a great “Connector” that can get families together... some of...

With South Woodford’s Grand Trunk Road winning Best Restaurant, along with their Head Chef Dayashankar Sharma bagging Best Chef at The Asian Food and Restaurant Awards 2019, they have now kicked off 2020 with their incomparable Head Chef also winning Best Chef at the...

This destination Indian restaurant is well worth jumping on the Central Line for Age: Just over three. Where exactly is it? About a 15-minute walk east from South Woodford tube, which is, for the oblivious, just a couple of stops from Leytonstone. On your...