It all started with a supper club and Beyonce.
Inherently South Indian Texan
Deepa Shridhar (she/her) is a chef, writer, podcaster and TV & Digital personality residing in Austin. Shridhar has started her professional cooking career working at some of the best restaurants in Texas, including her own award winning food trailer, Puli-Ra, and supper club, specializing in South Indian Texan cuisine, her own brand of Third Culture Cuisine.
She is the founder of Thali Omakase; a private monthly dinner experience with a completely custom menu, complimentary beverage program, and playlist. And runs Sicc Palette; a Substack that houses her podcast, newsletter and a variety of video content that focuses on personal narratives, the definitions of fine dining, immigrant, third culture cuisine and recipes flavored by her South Indian Texan perspective.
Connected through music, open sourcing, & down home luxury.
Fall 2025 brought an overarching theme of Beyoncé & Cheese. The origin is that it was a well placed insult that created the entire bandwidth of this iteration as an exploration of luxury and comfort.
It also brought new collaborative partners which allowed us to really explore our goal of creating down home luxury - a true version of great comfort. Our version of Texas opulence.
It means believing in mixing the familiar with the unfamiliar while deep diving into a Texan artist, who’s unafraid to layer her art and be undefinable in all genres, while keeping herself in the realm of iconoclasm. Plus… she’s in constant rotation on the playlist. This szn's playlist will be many interpretations of this idea, including artists you may or may not know.
For that reason, Thali Omakase brings you South Indian Fine Dining and also gives you chances to party before & after dinner.
