Celebrity couple Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding festivities featured an extensive menu between March 1 and 3. Feeding guests at what is now being referred to as Jamnagar’s Met Gala, was Chennai’s own Arusuvai Caterers. Their counter, among 35 helmed by world-renowned chefs, was busiest between midnight and 5am, and saw Bill Gates lining up for vadas and Aishwarya Rai indulging in a rava dosa..“We were roped in a few months ago and our team of 40 reached Jamnagar by February 29. Weeks prior to that, we had deployed a few of our chefs to serve the Ambani family members who were making arrangements over there. All raw material, equipment and groceries were provided in a restaurant-style set up, and I had to only take idli rice and idiyappam flour from Chennai,” says N Shridhar of Arusuvai Caterers (founded by his father late N Natarajan Iyer in 1962). This is not Arusuvai’s first tango with the Ambani family. They were part of the catering team during the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations at Antilia, the family residence valued at over ₹15,000 crore. “We go as a small team and make tiffin items such as idli, dosa, idiyappam as well as snacks such as murukku and thattai,” says Sridhar
