About
DVIPA Collective is a premium culinary consultancy working at the intersection of culinary craft, brand strategy, and built environment design.
We work across the full hospitality lifecycle — from the first idea through to an operating restaurant with a distinct identity and a culture that sustains it. Our clients hold their standards as seriously as we hold ours.
Based in Colombo. Working across Sri Lanka and internationally.
The founders
Co-Founder / Culinary
A professional chef with years across international kitchens and hospitality environments. Wishmalak leads all culinary direction, kitchen consultancy, and food product development at DVIPA, bringing operational fluency and a rigorous approach to menu architecture.
Co-Founder / Strategy
A brand strategist and creative consultant with a background spanning hospitality, operations, and identity design. Chandali leads brand strategy, creative direction, and operational architecture — working from the conviction that durable brands are built on a coherent worldview, not a visual system.
How we work
01
We do not add until we cannot take away. Every element earns its place or it is removed — in identity, in space, and on the plate equally.
02
Food, space, and identity resolve together or not at all. We operate across all three because the strongest brands proceed from one point of view.
03
We are not interested in what is current. We are interested in what is right for this brand, this operator, this context. That thinking outlasts trend.
“we do not add until we cannot take away.”
Architecture partnership
Through our architecture partnership, DVIPA is one of the few consultancies able to deliver a restaurant from first sketch to opening night under a single creative direction.
Our architecture partner works inside the DVIPA framework, which means the built environment and the brand identity are resolved together rather than in parallel. The result is a coherence between space and identity that is not achievable when these disciplines are engaged separately.
Operations / Kitchen consultancy