BiBi: The Cookbook

For professional cooks looking for inspiration at the edge of fine dining, BiBi: The Cookbook captures the voice of one of London’s most original new restaurants.

Opened in 2021, BiBi established itself almost immediately as a critical and cultural landmark. Chef Chet Sharma, whose career has taken him through Mugaritz, Moor Hall, and Atelier Crenn, applies the rigor of Michelin-starred kitchens to Indian flavors, producing food that is as exacting in execution as it is surprising in conception.

The 60 recipes collected here demonstrate Sharma’s clarity of vision: a buffalo milk paneer presented with startling elegance; a Kerala-inspired raw beef pepper fry that reimagines tartare through a layered, spice-driven lens; curries that speak to heritage but look wholly modern on the plate. An “Essentials” section documents the masalas, marinades, and stocks that underpin BiBi’s repertoire—tools professional kitchens will recognize as both building blocks and provocations.

Photographed with the same precision as the food itself, BiBi offers more than a record of a restaurant barely out of its first years. It challenges professional cooks to reconsider assumptions about Indian cuisine and to think differently about how tradition, technique, and presentation can be reimagined at the highest level.

Hardcover. Color photographs throughout.