Repeated rounds of receiving unusual chocolates later, we are curious to find out who Prateek Bakhtiani is. A spirits festival invite came with black mystery box, holding inside it bars and mini-bites infused with a variety of alcohol and curious ingredients. Apple gin jammed with white chocolate ganache and raspberry marzipan, whiskey with Dominican smoked dark chocolate, caramel with volcanic salt.

On Valentine's Day, came a box of heart-shaped bon bons. Cupid struck truffle ganache. And, with the onset of summer, to celebrate the luscious fruits of India came a bar of banana with caramel and coconut, amarphal with peanut ginger, and hapus paired with mustard seeds and cashewnut gianduja. Bakhtiani, 25, is behind Ether Atelier Chocolat, which launched its lab in 2018 and is now set to open its first brick and mortar store in Bandra come July.