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FLOYD CARDOZ is the executive chef at restaurateur Danny Meyers Tabla in New York City. A Bombay native, Cardoz enrolled in culinary school there and apprenticed at the Taj Mahal Intercontinental Hotel. He continued his education in Switzerland at Les Roches, a hotel management culinary school in Bluche, where he gained experience in Italian, French, and Indian cooking. Later Cardoz was hired as a chef de partie at Lespinasse under Gray Kunz. He rose to the position of executive sous-chef before leaving to open Tabla in 1998. Tabla has been awarded 3 stars from the New York Times and was named Best Indian Restaurant in the Sixth Annual Eat Out Awards conferred by Time Out New York. (New York, NY)
2004 The Culinary Institute of America