About Currysutra

Gather. Create. Taste.

My parents immigrated in the mid-1970s and spent four decades feeding people for a living. I've spent the last 25+ years doing the same — because I believe joy shared is joy doubled, and there's no better place to share it than the kitchen.

Chef Teena Arora, founder of Currysutra
Why we exist

Food brings people back to the table.

In a boardroom, a living room, or a wellness program — the goal is the same: get people cooking side by side, and everything else follows. That's the whole philosophy in one sentence. See how it plays out across Corporate, Individuals, and Wellness →

Our journey

Two decades in the making.

The story really starts before 2003 — with a family that ran food establishments for four decades before Currysutra existed. Read Chef Teena's full story →

2003

Currysutra is founded

Chef Teena Arora opens her culinary studio, bringing Indian, Mediterranean, Italian, and Asian cooking to the Bay Area.

2014

Competitions & recognition

Chef Teena is crowned "Curry Queen" by SF Bay Area Vegan Events, wins the Food Rush Summer Grilling Competition, lands Top 5 for America's Best Vegetarian Recipe with Cedarlane Foods, and competes at the World Food Championships in Las Vegas.

2015 – 2017

Nutrition credentials

Chef Teena completes Stanford University coursework in food, health, and child nutrition — the foundation of the Wellness philosophy.

2016 – Present

Corporate program grows

Currysutra's, "Explore Culinary Arts" (dba) becomes the culinary destination for Google, Meta, Stanford, Genentech, and 50+ Fortune 500 companies across the Bay Area.

2018

Featured in the press

Corporate team-building classes are featured in the Mountain View Voice and Palo Alto Online.

2021

One of the Bay Area's first legal home restaurants

Chef Teena is one of the first ten chefs permitted under California's new home-restaurant (MEHKO) pilot program, featured in the San Francisco Chronicle and interviewed by ABC7 News.

2022 – Present

NBC California Live

Chef Teena becomes an ongoing on-air contributor to NBC's California Live, with recurring cooking segments.

2026

Celebrating over 20 years

Currysutra continues to grow through venue partnerships across Redwood City and San Carlos, with 50,703 guests coached, taught, and entertained to date.

We're a small, women-owned business, and we don't take for granted the local support that got us here. Ten years into corporate team building and two decades into cooking for this community, we're blessed and grateful to keep serving Silicon Valley and the Bay Area — and excited for what the next decade holds.

Our people

Meet the team.

Currysutra runs on a small crew who've been with us for years, not months — the same faces your team will see on event day.

The Currysutra team at a corporate event
Giving back

Heart to Table Foundation.

We believe the kitchen is the heart of the home — it's where the Heart to Table Foundation gets its name, and the reason we do what we do.

Chef Teena's non-profit soon to partner with local organizations to bring food education and nourishing meals to communities across the Bay Area, extending the same care we bring to every kitchen we work in.

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