Last updated August 2026
Explore Socialveins' curated shortlist of 13 male Cooking influencers in Chennai on Instagram. Selected from 13 relevant profiles using creator relevance and available audience and performance signals.
Bio: Cooking for happiness ❤️ DM For Collaboration 💵 🤝 Youtube - 200 K ❤️
karthis_cookbooks is a mega home chef influencer based in Chennai, India with around 734.3K followers. They also create content around Recipes, food.
Bio: 🍽️Celebrity Chef -South India 🌐Guinness record 📝Author of 26 culinarybooks 👨🏼🍳Cook with comali judge season 1,2&3 Managed by @blue_lady_median
Damodaran Kothandaraman is a mega chef influencer based in Chennai, India with around 907.5K followers. They also create content around Recipes, Food.
Bio: 𝐀𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧🥊 @stejostanlee_official @anuj__joy കിടിലം ഫുഡ് എവിടെ ഉണ്ടോ .അത് നിങ്ങളിൽ എത്തിക്കും ഗെഡികളെ 𝗗𝗺 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯 📞 9633757009
Thrissur_foodstories is a macro home chef influencer based in Chennai, India with around 270.5K followers. They also create content around Recipes, Chef.
Bio: chicago not a chef [email protected]
Adharsh Kumar is a macro recipes influencer based in Chennai, India with around 195.4K followers. They also create content around Chef, Home chef.
Bio: 𝐎𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐥™ DM for Promotions, Collaborations and Invites! The Food Squad 👫 🕴️👫 Soru.... Athanae Ellam 😍🙏
Chennai Food Blogger is a micro recipes influencer based in Chennai, India with around 18.5K followers. They also create content around Food, Food blogger.
Bio: Documenting my humble food journey :)
Foodozers || chennai food blogger is a macro recipes influencer based in Chennai, India with around 407K followers. They also create content around Music, Food.
Bio: 🙋♀️ - @nivesvlog • Chennai🫶 Youtuber | 1 Million+💪 ✈️ 🇮🇳🇲🇾🇰🇪 𝘌𝘢𝘵🍝𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸📝𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵🔁 𝐃𝐌 - Paid collaboration📩 Streetfood • Restaurant • Homemade🥘
Chennai Food Blogger • Nivetha Sudhagar♥️ is a macro recipes influencer based in Chennai, India with around 417.8K followers. They also create content around Home chef, Music.
Bio: Its all about the food and flavour for your taste buds.🌍🌮🍜🍔 Chennai | India 🇮🇳 DM for collaborations and enquiries.
Karunakaran S is a macro recipes influencer based in Chennai, India with around 492.4K followers. They also create content around Music, Food.
Bio: .😎- YOUTUBE. More than 500k SUBS🔥 .👍- Dm for queries .📩[email protected]
Suryabecky is a mega home chef influencer based in Chennai, India with around 535.2K followers. They also create content around Music, food.
Bio: Creative Director | Ad.Filmmaker | Editor Cinematic Product & Food videos Email or DM for Work enquiries. 📩[email protected] 📍Chennai,India
Neeraj Elango is a mega home chef influencer based in Chennai, India with around 655.4K followers. They also create content around Recipes, Music.
Bio: Executive chef at Hunger Inc. (@thebombaycanteen @opedromumbai @veronicasbombay & @papasbombay ) Line cook at @elevenmadisonpark | From Chennai 📍
Hussain Shahzad is a micro influencer from Chennai, India with around 38.9K followers.
Bio: Food - Historian | Investor | Mentor MasterChef India Judge (Tamil) Culinary & Cultural Ambassador @sweetkaramcoffee_india Co-Founder @vastramandco
Rakesh Raghunathan is a macro influencer from Chennai, India with around 180.5K followers.
Bio: 🇮🇳 Let’s make food interesting👆 Healthy is never boring💫
Chef Samy is a micro influencer from Chennai, India with around 72.8K followers.
Socialveins curated the 13 creators shown above from a selection pool of 13 relevant profiles. The purpose is to give brands a focused starting point for campaign research, not an unfiltered export of every available profile.
The shortlist brings together category relevance, creator-location relevance for Chennai, the selected male creator filter, available audience scale, recorded engagement signals, profile information and potential campaign usability.
Among creators shown
Where valid data is available
This version of the shortlist currently leans towards macro creators, with 6 of the 13 displayed profiles falling into that audience tier. Macro creators are generally better suited to broader launches, brand-awareness campaigns and higher-reach content.
Local discovery, restaurant visits, product trials and recipe-led awareness.
Taste tests, venue walkthroughs, recipe reels, menu launches and regional food stories.
Prioritise local audience relevance, video views, saves, comment quality and previous restaurant or food-brand partnerships.
Editorial note: this curated list is intended for creator research and campaign planning. Inclusion does not guarantee availability or campaign performance. Statistics describe the creators currently displayed and should be revalidated before final selection.
Practical answers for brands evaluating the creators, audience mix, campaign fit and hiring process behind this shortlist.
Socialveins curated the 13 creators shown above from a selection pool of 13 relevant profiles. The shortlist considers category relevance, selected location and gender criteria where applicable, available audience size, recorded engagement signals, profile information and potential campaign usability. It is designed as a focused research shortlist rather than an exhaustive list of every matching profile.
Creators currently featured near the top of this curated shortlist include karthis_cookbooks, Damodaran Kothandaraman, Thrissur_foodstories. Their inclusion reflects the profile and performance information available for this particular list. Creator information can change, so Socialveins recommends revalidation before beginning a campaign.
The median audience size among the creators shown is approximately 4.1L followers. The median recorded engagement metric is 2.43%. The shortlist currently includes 3 micro, 6 macro, 4 mega. These figures describe the curated creators displayed on this page, not every profile in the broader selection pool.
This curated list is particularly relevant for local discovery, restaurant visits, product trials and recipe-led awareness. Suitable formats include taste tests, venue walkthroughs, recipe reels, menu launches and regional food stories. The final creator mix should depend on the brand objective, target customer, content requirement, budget and expected campaign outcome.
Prioritise local audience relevance, video views, saves, comment quality and previous restaurant or food-brand partnerships. Brands should also compare recent content consistency, typical video views, quality of audience comments, previous sponsored content and how naturally each creator can communicate the product. Strong content signals represented in the shortlist include Food, Food Blogger, Food And Restaurant Reviewer, Recipes.
The Chennai selection uses the creator-location information currently available to Socialveins. A listed location does not guarantee that most followers are from the same city, so audience geography should be checked separately for local campaigns. The male selection uses the gender information available in creator profile data and is intended as a discovery and shortlisting signal.
This page provides a strong starting shortlist, but campaign readiness should still be confirmed. Before hiring, Socialveins recommends checking recent performance, audience geography, brand safety, commercial availability, content deliverables, usage rights, exclusivity and campaign timelines.
There is no single fixed price. Creator commercials depend on audience size, recent reach, content format, production effort, usage rights, exclusivity, campaign duration and turnaround time. Socialveins can revalidate selected creators and prepare a campaign-ready shortlist with current commercials and deliverables.
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