Enjoy flavours of Yemeni coffee and food at this cafe in Bandra

Updated On: 30 August, 2024 09:22 AM IST | Mumbai | Anindita Paul

Is being the only space in Mumbai to serve Yemeni coffee enough to distinguish Aqueeq in this already overcrowded cafe district?

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How much coffee can adequately caffeinate the city’s most hipster suburb? Judging by the rate at which the neighbourhood has been spawning artisanal brew-serving cafes, the answer seems to lie just one more coffee shop away. The newest kid on this already well-populated block is Aqueeq, which has taken over the space that formerly housed the erstwhile Bandra landmark, Birdsong Café. Located on Waroda Road, which already boasts several landmark cafes including the trendy Veronica’s, Morii, Subko and Mokai, with The Nutcracker and The Method only a coffee bean-throw away, Aqueeq is up against formidable crowd favourites. However, the café has an ace hidden up its sleeve; the coffee beans are sourced from Yemen, one of the oldest coffee regions in the world. The coffee has a distinctive sweet aftertaste, the co-founders say, and its cultivation and export has helped farmers in the war-torn nation to move away from the cultivation of khat, a classified drug, that trends to render the fields barren.

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