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Cuffins: Homemade cupcake muffins
A cross between cupcakes and muffins, cuffins are a breakthrough invention by baker Sonali Gonsalves. Soft, frosting-free and filled with fresh fruit like apple, blueberry and strawberries at Rs 300 a dozen. More baking pow(d)er, we say! Here's the menu. For order details, click here.
Cinnabon: Sweet American in town
They’re here, they’re hot, they’re sweet, sticky and as good as the original. Well, almost. The buns at Cinnabon Bandra, Mumbai’s first outpost of the American mall chain, are a little more doughy than we’re used to but they still manage to hit the sweet spot. Located on Pali Naka (home to Basilico, Pali Village Café and Janata), Cinnabon is squeezed into a tiny space with limited seating and take-out is a better option. Microwave your buns for 15-20 seconds at home and they’re as good as new. Read the bpb review.
Magick Potions: Organic preserves
Mumbai’s Lady Marmalade crushes organic fruit into delish jams and sells them in adorable glass jars, minus the synthetic gunk. The mango’s a little too sweet, but we love the fig, plum and apple-cinnamon versions. You can even mix and match fruit and spices to customize your flavor: that’ll be two portions of chili kiwi jam, please. For order and delivery details, click here.
Poltrona Frau: Design gurus descend
With Poltrona Frau Group Design Center, a three-story new home store in Kala Ghoda, Europe's conceptual design brand enters India. Here we spotted a knotted carbon strand chair that can take 200 kgs of weight, and which you can lift with your little finger (Rs 1 .35 lakhs); Dali-inspired lip couches and psychedelic thrones. Beautiful and pricey as they might be, none of these can qualify as impulse buys because all pieces are on order, and will arrive at your doorstep 12 weeks later, freshly manufactured from Italy. Read the bpb review.
Personalized crossword puzzles: Gift idea
A father-son duo who are professional puzzlers creating word games for almost every newspaper in the city, Dinshaw and Yazad Dotivala will tailor-make you a crossword in 48 hours. Like a football trivia test or romantic wedding proposal maybe? They also craft other word games and Sudoku. For order details, click here.
