FIRO

Fire & Roots

Dinner Only · Reservations Recommended

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Yoghurt Ice Cream ChaatBombay PuffsMushroom PâtéMalai DumplingsPalak No PaneerGosht RampuriTruffle NaanMarigold NegroniCurry Leaf Old FashionedSemolina & Jaggery Cake

The Story

Indian cuisine of fire and earth — rooted in memory, fired by imagination.

FIRO — short for Fire & Roots — is an intimate 54-seater tucked into the leafy streets of R.A. Puram. Here, the familiar is reimagined without apology: ancestral recipes pulled apart, played with, and rebuilt through a contemporary lens.

FIRO restaurant — Ashish Thadani and Chef Ajit Bangera at the launch

Founded by restaurateur Ashish Thadani and helmed by celebrated Chef Ajit Bangera — formerly of ITC Grand Chola and the lauded Avartana — FIRO brings four decades of culinary craft to a deliberately small, deliberately personal room.

Elegant, surprising, and deeply, unmistakably Indian. A house that prefers warmth to spectacle.

Ashish Thadani

Founder & Restaurateur

Chef Ajit Bangera

Executive Chef · Ex-ITC Grand Chola, Avartana

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Intimate Seats

40+

Years, Chef Bangera

Central Bar

Signature Dishes

A Taste of FIRO

Rooted in memory, rewritten nightly. A handful of the dishes that define our table.

Velvety Yoghurt Ice Cream Chaat at FIRO Chennai

Mushroom Pâté with khameeri bread at FIRO Chennai

Street memory reimagined — frozen yoghurt, tamarind, pomegranate, sev. Everything a chaat should be, and nothing you'd expect.

Signature

Yoghurt Ice Cream Chaat

Street memory reimagined — frozen yoghurt, tamarind, pomegranate, sev. Everything a chaat should be, and nothing you'd expect.

First Course

Mushroom Pâté

Forest mushrooms slow-cooked to silk, tempered with black cardamom and served with khameeri bread.

Mains

Malai Dumplings

Handmade dumplings, cream-kissed, in a saffron sauce that draws from the Mughal kitchen and the South Indian coast equally.

Mains

Gosht Rampuri

Slow-cooked mutton on the bone in a deep, glossy bone-broth gravy, finished with saffron and edible gold.

Dessert

Semolina & Jaggery Cake

Warm sooji cake with date caramel poured tableside over ghee ice cream — comfort, reimagined.

A handful of highlights — the full menu changes with the season.

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FIRO restaurant interior — dining room and central bar, R.A. Puram

The Bar Program

Liquid Roots, Spirited Fire

At the heart of FIRO sits the bar — a central anchor around which the room breathes. Indian botanicals, forgotten regional ingredients, and the confidence to be playful.