Haute Patisserie · Chennai

Shereen
Perez

Pastry ChefChocolatierFounder, Amano

Eight years across luxury hotels, chocolate academies, and a French diploma — distilled into one quiet practice.

Chef Shereen Perez
Chef Shereen Perez

She works the way fine writers write — slowly, deliberately, one quiet decision at a time.

A pastry chef, a chocolatier, an entrepreneur — and a quiet student of refinement.

Trained across India, Sri Lanka, and France, Shereen Perez combines the discipline of luxury hospitality with the warmth of handcraft. Eight years inside the world's most demanding pastry kitchens taught her that consistency is the truest form of love a chef can offer.

Today she leads Amano Patisserie — a quiet brand built on refinement, gifting, and collaboration. Her work moves between premium dessert systems, hospitality consulting, food styling, and education, always returning to the same question: can this be more honest, more elegant, more precisely itself?

— The Journey

Six rooms. One working life.

École Ducasse, France
2025

Expert Diploma · Advanced Pastry

École Ducasse

An eight-year arc completes its turn — and begins another.

Classical French pastry, viennoiserie, entremets, chocolate artistry, gelatos, sorbets, and luxury presentation — the technical refinement of a global perspective.

01 / 23
Chennai, India
2021 — Present

Founder

Amano Patisserie & Chocolaterie

A brand built quietly — refinement held together by a single hand.

Pastry production, recipe standardisation, luxury gifting, B2B supply, hospitality collaborations, workshops, and consulting. Selected work includes food styling for Ibaco, dessert workshops with Lexus, corporate chocolate experiences, and café & boutique consulting.

01 / 30
Chennai, India
2020

Honey Box · Bread Flour

Honey Box — A Shereen Perez Venture

Bread — the most honest thing she ever made.

Artisanal bread-making made easy with Honey Box — India's very first DIY bread making kit. Conceptualised by Chef Shereen Perez and launched at JK Cheese N More, Honey Box came to life when skill and innovation met confinement and limited resources. Featured in Ritz Magazine and Indulge Express.

01 / 09
Chennai, India
2022

Food Styling · Ibaco

Ibaco Ice Cream

Where precision met the lens — and food became a portrait.

Food styling collaboration with Ibaco, photographed by celebrity photographer G. Venkat Ram and photographer Arun Srinivasan. A study in composition, colour, and the quiet drama of a perfectly lit plate.

01 / 05
Fabelle, Chennai
2019 — 2020

Chocolatier

Fabelle · The Chocolate Boutique

A pivot inward, into the slow, warm craft of chocolate.

Pralines, ganaches, entremets, artisanal confectionery, masterclasses, and corporate workshops. Trained with the Callebaut Chocolate Academy.

01 / 15
London, United Kingdom
2019

Cake Studio London · Buttercream Flowers

Cake Studio London

Where sugar became petal, and petal became craft.

A specialist course at Cake Studio London in the art of sculpted buttercream flowers — the discipline of turning frosting into form, colour into mood, and a cake into something that stops a room.

01 / 04
ITC Grand Chola, Chennai
2018 — 2019

Chef de Partie · Pastry

ITC Hotels

The volume sharpened her hand; the standard set the bar she still measures against.

Pastry station management, production planning, banquet execution, à la carte service, HACCP standards. Mastery in consistency under pressure.

01 / 11
Taj Samudra, Colombo
2017 — 2018

Pastry Apprentice

Taj Hotels

Theory met service. The hush of a five-star kitchen at five in the morning.

High tea, breakfast and lunch production, banquet preparation, macaron work, multi-outlet coordination. The disciplined poise of luxury hospitality.

01 / 04
Colombo, Sri Lanka
2015 — 2017

Diploma · Industrial Baking

Prima Baking & Training School

Where curiosity learned the language of discipline.

Foundations in baking science, formula work, ingredient understanding, and the structured, production-floor mindset that would later shape every kitchen she walked into.

01 / 05
— Selected Work

Cakes, chocolates, brownies, entremets — a slow inventory of detail.

Signature chocolate brownies, seasonal Christmas cakes, wedding cakes, macarons, modern French pastries, artisanal chocolates, luxury tea cakes, and entremets — held together by the same quiet hand.

01 / 30
— Services

Where the kitchen meets the world.

Curated engagements, not a menu. Each begins with a conversation.

— Credentials

Education

2025
École Ducasse — France
Expert Diploma in Advanced Pastry
2018
Callebaut Chocolate Academy
Advanced Chocolate Artistry
2017
The Cake Studio — London
Specialised Cake Craft
2016
PME Knightsbridge — London
Royal Icing & Sugarcraft
2015 — 17
Prima Baking & Training School
Diploma in Industrial Baking
B.Sc.
Stella Maris College, Chennai
Undergraduate Studies

Recognition

Good Deeds — Page 3 feature
Lexus India — dessert and chocolate workshops
Ibaco Ice Creams — food styling projects
Hospitality consulting collaborations
Corporate pastry workshops

Languages

EnglishNative
TamilNative
FrenchA2 · Conversational
— Off the Floor

Inspired by hospitality, France, festive traditions, and texture.

Deeply passionate about the operational intensity behind pastry — large-scale festive runs, weeks lost in R&D, the slow refinement of presentation. Fulfilment, found in the process itself.

Favourite ingredient
Chocolate
Favourite dessert
Brownie
— Looking Ahead

A luxury gifting and premium dessert brand — scalable, hospitality-grade, quietly built.

Luxury retail concepts, premium product innovation, B2B hospitality collaborations, and chef-led product development. Bridging artisanal pastry with operational excellence and modern luxury standards.

“If you have a dream, you have a responsibility to yourself to make it come true… because if you don't, you're just a dreamer.”
— Marco Pierre White