[2][3][4] Suresh started his career in 1993 at the age of 17 as waiter at a restaurant Chef King in Kollam, Kerala after his high school education.

He assisted the chef part-time, and later joined the kitchen where he learnt basic cooking skills.

Three years later he moved to Casino Hotel in Calicut (now Kozhikode), where he learnt Malabar cuisine.

[8][9] In 2017, he contested in the British reality TV show MasterChef: The Professionals (series 10) on BBC Two.

[10] In 2021, he made a guest appearance in the Malayalam TV serial Mounaragam in the role of a cookery show judge.

That year, he also joined the cooking game show Kutti Kalavara Seniors on Flowers as a judge.