Yazdani Bakery
Cowasji Patel Street, Fort, Mumbai.
Cowasji Patel Street, Fort, Mumbai.
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Yazdani was founded in the 1920s, and is run by the third generation of the family, in the same historic premises.
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ne of the most memorable breakfasts we’ve had was on New Year’s Day some years ago. We came out of a party before dawn, and decided to go out for breakfast. The only place open at that unearthly hour was Yazdani, which was just turning out its first batch of hot breads for the day, and we could smell the fragrance even before we saw the bakery.
Mr Zend, the proprietor, offered us crackling brun and baby-soft pao straight out of his glowing, red-hot oven, and we devoured it with double maska, dipped in kadak Irani chai. He also plied us with his delicately flaky khari biscuits, Parsi pudding, mava cake and a sampler of his excellent breads, including 8-grain bread, olive oil bread and whole-wheat. And we realised, that morning, the difference between bread baked the old-fashioned way, and the bland commercial bread that, sadly, we’ve become used to. Yazdani was founded in the 1920s, and is run by the third generation of the family, in the same historic premises. I still remember that simple, wonderful Irani breakfast, and can’t think of a better way to start the new year.
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