Fresh-roasted coffee beans, delivered in Mumbai.

Mumbai kitchens are small and the mornings are fast, and in the monsoon everything in a cupboard goes soft within a week. Coffee that was roasted months ago does not survive that. Coffee roasted last Tuesday does.

Every bag we send to Mumbai is roasted after you order it and sealed with a one-way valve. Keep it closed, keep it out of the fridge, and it will hold for weeks.

The weather here, and what it does to a bag of coffee

Mumbai sits on the sea, and the air carries it. Humidity stays between about 60 and 85 percent for most of the year, and from June to September the monsoon brings over two thousand millimetres of rain. Roasted coffee takes in moisture and smells from the air, so a bag that is opened and left loose on a Mumbai counter loses its aroma in days.

We pack every bag with a one-way valve. Keep it closed between brews, press the air out before you fold it, and keep it in a cupboard away from the stove. Do not put it in the fridge; the beans pick up moisture each time the door opens. In the monsoon months we suggest the 250 g bag, so you finish it while it is fresh, and we roast the next one when you write.

October is hot again, and December mornings are mild, around 18 to 20 degrees before the sun is up. Those are the weeks when a pour-over of the light roast makes sense, with the window open. In the wet months the dark roast holds its flavour through milk, and a moka pot on the stove warms a small kitchen in a way that feels right.

Where in Mumbai the bags go

Most of our Mumbai orders come from Bandra, Andheri, Powai, Lower Parel, and Worli, from people who brew before the office and again after the train home. There are regulars in Dadar and Matunga who drink filter coffee at home and order the dark roast ground fine for it, and a few in Chembur, Goregaon, and Malad who own espresso machines.

Thane, Navi Mumbai, Vashi, and Kharghar are on the same courier routes, and the bag takes the same few days to arrive. If you are in Colaba or Fort, the delivery is usually a day quicker. Wherever you are in the city, shipping is free.

Festivals, and the roast we would pour

Ganesh Chaturthi arrives in late August or September, and for ten days the city is out on the street. Homes fill with visitors in the evening, and the coffee that gets made then is quick and for many cups at once. The dark roast in a French press, made strong and served with warm milk, is what we would put out. It stands up to modak and sweets.

Diwali and the Navratri evenings before it are similar: late nights, guests, and something to serve alongside the mithai. The medium roast in a moka pot, poured small and thick, sits well after a heavy meal.

For the quieter days, Christmas in Bandra with its lit lanes, or a Sunday in February when the Kala Ghoda festival is on and the city is walking, we would take the light roast as a pour-over. It is brighter, it tastes of the fruit in the bean, and it suits a slow morning.

Which roast, when

These are the pairings we would make for a Mumbai week. Tell us your brewer when you order and we will grind for it.

Before the fast local

Medium roast, moka pot. Ready in four minutes and forgiving.

A monsoon evening with the rain on the window

Dark roast, French press, with milk.

A Sunday in December with the window open

Light roast, pour-over or AeroPress.

Guests during Ganpati

Dark roast, French press, a litre at a time.

An espresso machine in a Powai flat

Medium roast for straight shots, dark roast for milk drinks. Tell us the machine and we will grind for it.

How the coffee reaches you

We buy green arabica from one small farm in the coffee hills of Karnataka, a few kilos at a time. We roast it at home on a small drum roaster, in batches of a few hundred grams. We roast your bag after you order it, so it leaves within days of the roast and not months.

You choose light, medium, or dark, or you tell us the notes you like and we roast toward them. You can have whole beans, or tell us your brewer and we will grind for it. A 250 g bag is ₹750 and a 500 g bag is ₹1,200, with free shipping in India.

Who you are buying from

We are a small roastery with one roaster in a home kitchen. There is no cafe and no warehouse. When you write to us about a grinder or a shot that came out sour, the person who roasted your bag writes back, and has made the same mistakes at the same counter.

Questions people ask