Raga by Gaggan Anand, Janpath: Inside Delhi's Most Anticipated Fine Dining Restaurant

Raga by Gaggan Anand is an Indian progressive dining restaurant opening at 21A Janpath Road, New Delhi, on August 26, 2026. The restaurant is a three-way partnership between chef Gaggan Anand, chef Rydo Anton and restaurateur Zorawar Kalra, running a single ₹11,111++ tasting menu across two seatings per night, with dinner service from 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm and closure on Tuesdays.

In this guide:

• Raga by Gaggan Anand at a Glance
• Who Is Gaggan Anand?
• What Is the Dining Experience Like at Raga by Gaggan Anand in Delhi?
• What Kind of Food Does Raga Serve?
• How Much Does Dinner at Raga Cost?
• How Does Raga Compare With Other Fine Dine Restaurants in Janpath?
• Is Raga Worth the ₹11,111?
• Frequently Asked Questions

Raga by Gaggan Anand at a Glance

Raga is Gaggan Anand's first restaurant in India since he left the country two decades ago, opening August 26, 2026, at 21A Janpath Road - the same address where Zorawar Kalra's Masala Library once stood. There is one tasting menu, priced at ₹11,111 per person plus taxes for food, with drinks and wine pairings charged separately. Unlike a standard chef-led opening, Raga is structured as a three-way partnership: Gaggan Anand and Rydo Anton created the restaurant together, with Zorawar Kalra of Massive Restaurants as the third partner who made it real.

Who Is Gaggan Anand?

What Is Gaggan Anand Known For and Why Does His Delhi Opening Matter?

Gaggan Anand grew up in Kolkata, where his parents shaped his early relationship with food. As a teenager, he wanted to be a musician, not a chef - an instinct that still shows in how seriously he treats music as part of a meal. He studied at the Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology in Trivandrum, trained with the Taj Group, and later spent a formative stretch at El Bulli in Spain under Ferran Adrià, the chef widely credited as the father of modern molecular gastronomy.

That stint at El Bulli reshaped his career. In 2010, he opened Gaggan in Bangkok, a restaurant that topped Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list five separate times - a record no other restaurant in the region has matched - and currently holds two Michelin stars. Then, at the height of that success, he walked away from it. Once Anand knows exactly how something works, he tends to want to do something else.

Anand left India twenty years ago. He has spent ten of those years, since 2016, trying to find his way back. Raga is that return - not a Bangkok replica, and not a greatest-hits menu, but what he calls progressive Indian cuisine: familiar Indian flavours rebuilt with modern technique, a sense of theatre and an element of surprise.

Who Is Rydo Anton, and Why Is Raga Named After Him Too?

Raga isn't the story of one chef coming home. The name itself carries two identities: RA for Rydo Anton, GA for Gaggan Anand, with a nod to the raga in Indian classical music - a structure loose enough to leave room for improvisation.

Rydo's journey to Delhi started far from it. Born in Jakarta, he trained across kitchens in the United States and the Middle East and studied culinary arts in Switzerland before an image of Gaggan's cooking pulled him to Bangkok. In 2013 he walked into Gaggan and cooked seven dishes for his trial - and got the job. What began as chef de partie work grew into more than a decade of cooking, travelling and building ideas alongside Anand; today Anton leads culinary direction across the wider restaurant group as Group Executive Chef.

At Raga, though, he isn't simply running the kitchen. He is one of the three people who own it. Years of working, arguing and starting over together turned chef and protégé into collaborators, and eventually into partners - which is the actual origin story behind Raga's name.

Who Is Zorawar Kalra and Why Is He the Right Partner for Raga?

Zorawar Kalra is the founder and managing director of Massive Restaurants, the group behind Masala Library, Farzi Café, Pa Pa Ya and Made in Punjab - four different bets on the same idea: that Indian food can stay rooted here and still travel. He is also the son of the late Jiggs Kalra, one of the most influential figures in modern Indian food writing and a driving force behind documenting India's regional cuisines.

Kalra opened Masala Library in Mumbai in 2013, introducing Indian diners to molecular gastronomy for the first time through playful modern techniques applied to familiar dishes. What connects him to Anand goes back further than Raga: Kalra has spoken about finding the inspiration for Masala Library during a meal at El Bulli - the same Spanish kitchen where Anand trained under Ferran Adrià. Two chefs, on different continents, walked out of that kitchen convinced Indian food could be rebuilt using the tools of modern culinary science. Raga is where those two paths meet, at 21A Janpath Road, in the same building that once housed Kalra's own Masala Library.

What Is the Dining Experience Like at Raga by Gaggan Anand in Delhi?

Raga runs one tasting menu across two seatings each evening, and food is only part of what's on offer. The restaurant frames the meal as a "textural, visual, emotional journey" built from texture, sound, light, rhythm, memory, humour and surprise - guests are asked to arrive hungry, having eaten nothing for five hours beforehand.

There is no à la carte at Raga and no second menu to fall back on - one tasting experience, twice a night. The team behind it is deliberately vague about what's actually served, on the logic that not knowing is part of the point: sometimes you'll recognise exactly what's on the plate, and sometimes, by design, you won't. Anand has said the restaurant isn't trying to tell diners what to feel; it wants to see what happens when they feel it anyway.

Anand himself plans to spend his evenings moving between tables, greeting guests in person rather than staying behind the pass. Raga is open for dinner only, from 6:30 pm with last seating at 9:00 pm, and stays closed on Tuesdays. Guests are asked to arrive 15 minutes ahead of their slot, and tables are held for 30 minutes past the booking time.

Seating is split two ways: the chef's counter, which seats 5 guests facing the kitchen, and the main dining room, where individual bookings go up to 6 guests. 

What Kind of Food Does Raga Serve?

Raga serves progressive Indian cuisine - Anand's term for cooking that starts from familiar Indian flavours and rebuilds them with modern technique, unexpected textures and a strong sense of theatre. The approach traces directly to his training at El Bulli, and the food at his Bangkok restaurant offers a reasonable preview of what Delhi diners can expect, adapted for an audience tasting his cooking on home soil for the first time.

The menu at Raga has been shaped jointly by Anand and Anton, reflecting the same progressive, playful, India-rooted philosophy that built both of their careers. It's priced at ₹11,111 per person plus taxes, food only - there's no à la carte option to choose from instead.

How Much Does Dinner at Raga Cost?

The tasting menu at Raga is priced at ₹11,111 per person (plus taxes) for food alone. Drinks, wine pairings and other beverages are charged separately and aren't included in this price. Full payment is required upfront at the time of booking, along with a 3% booking fee, and all reservations are non-refundable.

Here is everything you need to know before booking:

Price: ₹11,111 per person (plus taxes) for the tasting menu (food only); drinks and wine pairings are extra

Payment: Full payment upfront at the time of booking, plus a 3% booking fee

Private dining: Expected to follow the launch, with a reported minimum spend of ₹2,00,000

Cancellation policy: All reservations are non-refundable

Private dining: Expected to follow the launch, with a reported minimum spend of ₹2,00,000

Hours: Dinner only, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm last seating

Closed: Tuesdays

Arrival: Guests are asked to arrive 15 minutes ahead of their booking time; tables are held for 30 minutes past the booking time

Payment methods: UPI, credit or debit cards only

Dress code: Smart casuals or smart elegant; open shoes aren't permitted for gentlemen

Age restriction: Guests must be above 13 to attend

Phones and cameras: Not permitted through most of the meal

Dietary restrictions: Allergies and dietary needs must be flagged at least 48 hours in advance; the kitchen cannot accommodate vegan or Jain diets, or allergies to coriander or chilli

Corkage: Not offered

Seating: All seats are pre-assigned by the restaurant team; change requests are accommodated only if space allows

A two-guest booking at the ₹11,111++ tasting menu works out to roughly ₹22,222 due upfront before the 3% booking fee, since full payment is required at the time of reservation.

How Does Raga Compare With Other Fine Dine Restaurants in Janpath?

Raga arrives at 21A Janpath Road as a genuinely new kind of address for the street - a single ₹11,111++ tasting menu with no à la carte fallback, built by a chef who has spent the past decade collecting Michelin stars abroad rather than testing recipes at home. Nothing at Janpath currently operates at this price point or with this structure.

What sets Raga apart isn't just the menu price. It's the ownership: Anand, Anton and Kalra aren't a chef-and-investor arrangement; they're three named partners who each shaped the concept, and the address itself carries history - the same building once held Kalra's Masala Library, the restaurant that first introduced Mumbai to molecular gastronomy over a decade ago.

Is Raga Worth the ₹11,111?

Gaggan Anand spent sixteen years building one of Asia's most celebrated restaurants abroad, topping the continent's best-restaurant list five times and picking up two Michelin stars along the way. Rydo Anton spent more than ten of those years standing next to him, first as a line cook proving himself over a seven-dish trial, later as the chef running culinary direction across the group. Zorawar Kalra spent that same stretch building his own vision for modern Indian dining at home - a vision that, it turns out, traces back to the same Spanish kitchen that shaped Anand's career.

That the three have now landed at 21A Janpath, in a building with its own history in progressive Indian dining, feels less like a coincidence and more like the point. Whether ₹11,111 is worth it will come down to how much a diner values not knowing exactly what's coming - for anyone chasing the most talked-about progressive dining opening in Delhi in 2026, Raga is the one to watch.