Mr. Kazem Samndari and Mr. Laurent Samandari Director at L’opera hosted Sundowner event recently in capital to welcome their Executive Chef Cedric Houze. The Event was also honoured by presence..

Perhaps it was inevitable that a Frenchman would start up a French patisserie and boulangerie chain — and, for good measure, have the French embassy as one of its outposts. But when Kazem Samandari and his wife Christine sold their apartment in Paris and moved to Delhi seven years ago, L’Opera wasn’t as much a gleam in their eye as was their grandson.