Wine & Dine
Text and Photography by Mallika Chandra.
Anushka Malkani, 27 and Nariman Abdygapparov, 24
Masa Bakery
Location: Andheri
Speciality: Baked goods, pastries
Tell us about your journey as chefs before Masa. What led you to start a cloud kitchen and how were you intending to stand out?
Anushka Malkani (AM): I studied in Switzerland, and then I moved to Paris, where I was working with the Ducasse group. I learned a lot about the importance of good ingredients and how you source them. In fact, it inspired Nariman and me to open Masa because we felt like there was a space for ingredient-driven pastry in Mumbai. There are a lot of ingredient-driven restaurants in Mumbai, where they focus on the quality of the fruits and vegetables. But when it comes to cloud kitchens, I think there’s a perception that the food is bad, it’s unhygienic and in most cases that’s possibly…