In Just 10 Years of Cooking, Tailorâs Vivek Surti Has Come a Long Way Through June, Tailor is offering an elevated reimagining of Surtiâs very first supper-club menu Tweet
Vivek SurtiPhoto: Eric England
At a glance, chef Vivek Surti seems to have had a meteoric climb at his Germantown restaurant Tailor, where he shares his first-generation Americanâs version of his ancestral Gujarati cuisine in a jovial dinner-party atmosphere. But his path to becoming an award-winning restaurateur and chef has been far from direct or sudden. Ten years ago, Surti was still living at home with his parents and sister, using the money he was saving on rent to buy all sorts of fun exotic ingredients while learning to cook for himself. âI started cooking by watching TV shows like