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FOOD & BEVERAGE
Roastery Kolkata (left) and Lucknow
hat’s brewing? Coffee is ... All across “FOUNDER NISHANT SINHA WANTS
the country, over the last decade. First
at a trickle and now in a gush this dark, ROASTERY COFFEE HOUSE TO BE A
this earthy liquid has captured our DESTINATION NOT JUST A CAFÉ AND HAS
cups and the café culture has vibrantly CREATED A BEAUTIFUL AND ELEGANT
Wmushroomed creating happy heavens
for patrons. SPACE ACROSS EACH OF HIS PROPERTIES.
Pre-pandemic a place to chill and post-pandemic a second THE COFFEE BEANS HERE ARE SOURCED
workplace for many, almost everyone I know has a preferred FROM INDIA’S FINEST FARMS AND
café that they frequent.
India, from being a tea-drinking country, has in recent ROASTED TO PERFECTION IN THEIR
years gone on to herald a coffee revolution in no small GIESEN ROASTING MACHINES IN-HOUSE.”
thanks to young urban Indians. Coffee today is a lifestyle
and a statement not just a beverage and the market today is
discerning with many patrons genuinely understanding the boost for the local coffee bean cultivators.
nuances of coffee. Today it’s not just a hot cup of coffee that is essential to
Today, we see coffee being celebrated in all its forms from kick-start our day, the younger consumers (and some
the good old filter coffee and cold coffee to siphons and cold not-so-young ones like myself) are huge fans of the cold
brews. Artisanal coffee brands are no longer simply in cities brew variants that give us that caffeine buzz thanks to its
but even most tier 2 and 3 markets have cafés that are slower flavour extraction adding smoothness without
increasingly popular and in demand with patrons. compromising on the potency.
Shade grown Indian coffee is superlative and the Indian These cold brews also are well suited to our tropical
monsoons enhance the complexity of flavours in the coffee climatic conditions making them massively popular.
beans. Consumers are curious and are eager to experiment Baristas today are skilled in various brewing processes and
with coffees from a variety of estates which has been a huge offer a plethora of coffee beverages to suit every taste
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