Mumbai food: This new cafeteria in Bandra romanticises savouries

The atmosphere in this café, a week before a launch, is excellent — mixed conversations about unprepared furniture, lighting and kitchen apparatus are conducted concurrently even as a carpenter’s saw provides a credentials buzz.

When we travel into Poetry, a newest charity by Ruchyeta Bhatia and cook Amit Sharma of Love and Cheesecake, like a regretful verse, many lines are left to a inner ponderings.
A box in indicate is a centre counter, that will run plumb flanked by infrequent seating on possibly side on a belligerent floor.

With this Bandra café, Ruchyeta Bhatia and cook Amit Sharma guarantee a  fare opposite from their progressing dessert parlour. Pic/Shadab Khan

A structure from a wall will postpone copper rods to reason 3 layers of baskets to be filled with 7 varieties of breads. While a block is approaching a day later, we simply design a smell of creatively baked breads, from panninis and foccacia to bagels and brioches, tantalizing customers, amid a bubbling pots of Peruvian coffee sourced from Hong Kong.

A workman scrapes a floor, a servers prepared a cutlery, and labourers request a pure film on a potion door. There is a process to a launch madness, Bhatia, co-founder of Love and Cheesecake, tells us: “The owners contingency keep calm.”

Choux a la Crème comes in dual flavours, hiss and caramel 

The passageway building of a 1,000 block feet café, in Bandra (West), has an open kitchen as good as a seating area. Done adult in grey walls, solely one wall ornate by a wallpaper with a watercolour outcome of pink, bluish and blue, a 33-seater will join a line of Monkey Bar, Fatty Bao and Theobroma on Jul 8.

More than cheesecake
The menu offers cold-pressed juices, smoothies, salads, sandwiches and desserts that are “different from Love and Cheesecake”. The group has been contrast a delectable transport during corporate caterings for a past three-and-a-half years.

Our tasting tarry starts with Wingman (Rs 200), a cold pulpy extract comprising celery, kale, apple, cucumber, ginger and orange. But it is a Fresh Start (Rs 230) that final a attention. Between a benevolence of apples and pointy ambience of capsicum, a carrot plays a good matchmaker.

Poached Eggs and Avocado on a croissant

But, a drizzle outward has incited into a surge and it’s unequivocally soup that we are craving. We are tempted by a regard of a broccoli soup (Rs 140) with a tawny hardness finished overwhelming with a splash of pepper. Still attempting to be healthy, a subsequent stop is a quinoa and crunchy vegetables salad (Rs 315). But it falls a bit flat. We cite a chopped black kale salad (Rs 315) for a crunchy chopped almond, sharp aged gouda cheese, grated parmesan, and zesty anchovy dressing. No shame yet.

Get poached
Runny or slimy? With 6 dishes on a menu, a accumulation of egg dishes on offer here is great. Try a poached eggs and Avocado on a croissant (Rs 310) and a classical Croque Madam (Rs 415). We’ll call this a draw, for, a Avocado Croissant, with a sharp salsa and buttery splinter is a burning dish, while a boiled eggs on a classical croque madame slides down a toast, seducing a tastebuds.

Poetry aims to be a next-door café, prepared to offer we from 8 am to midnight. PIC/Shadab Khan

The group recognises a honeyed strength and a Hazelnut Brioche French toast (Rs 230) is a honeyed breakfast choice served with caramelised bananas and hazelnuts. The comfortable maple syrup seals a understanding for us. Pair this with their prohibited chocolate (Rs 160).

Diplomatic Mousse is pressed with a toffee filling, and almond sponge

When it is time for dessert, Sharma pulls adult a chair and joins us. He asks a server to pierce him his blade and meticulously cuts a block of a Strawberry Mojito (Rs 150). He points to a layers. Between a lemon almond sponge, is a covering of confit — a strawberry safety finished of fruit safety — packet lemon mousse and lemon cream on a almond shortcrust pastry. Theory done, we pierce on to cocktail in a bite. The shortcrust fritter crumbles in a mouth, and a lemon spread fills a crevices with a zing, a dry safety personification a chewy part.

“Our dessert judgment involves textures and layers, with one bottom element,” says Sharma, whose thought is best explained in a Diplomatic Mousse (Rs 150), that looks like a counterpart glassy bubble. Poetry aims to be a next-door café, prepared to offer we from 8 am to midnight. And if we were wondering where to work next, a space will offer WiFi as good as a printer to concede we to travel in some-more often, during your convenience.

Poetry by Love and Cheesecake
At: Shop no 6, Pali Darshan, connection of 16th and 33rd Road, Bandra West
When: 8 AM to 12 AM
Call: 9819935135

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