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Mumbai Food: Friendship on toast
Updated On: 23 June, 2019 08:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Ekta Mohta
With Bombay Breakfast Project, two out-of-towners are discovering the city's best breakfasts over Kalledevarapura espressos and Earl Grey teas
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Neethi Isaac and Anushree Kapoor. Pic/Ashish Raje. Location courtesy/Salt Water Cafe
In addition to being her headhunter, her colleague, her former neighbour and her current bestie, Neethi Isaac is also Anushree Kapoor's barista. "I'm a tea person — I can have at least eight cups of tea in the day — but I can only have her filter coffee," says Kapoor. Isaac and Kapoor met in Bengaluru in 2010, when they were both burning the midnight oil at the design agency, Brand Union, led by Ray + Keshavan. Today, they both work at Open Strategy & Design in Mumbai, where Isaac, 32, is senior brand partner, and Kapoor, 34, is creative director. Isaac claims to "make the perfect south Indian filter coffee" and says, "There is no place in Mumbai that makes good filter coffee. I've tried a few times and burnt my fingers. [So, it's] my house or nothing." She takes it so seriously that she says laughingly, "I have a Pantone reference for my coffee. If it doesn't match Pantone 740C, I don't consume it."
Over the last two years, the duo has been meeting every Saturday morning with the aim of finding "the best eggs Benedict in Bandra," their present neighbourhood. Kapoor says, "Our thing was to try one new place every time, but we used to fall in love with the place." For instance, Isaac says, "We liked El Mercado so much that we went there three weeks in a row. It doesn't have the best food, but you have a really good experience. The lady who started it was a fashion designer, and she put her business on hold to start El Mercado. When people start talking about passion, you can feel the love in the food. And that really makes a huge difference." As people who eat with their eyes first, they also started an Instagram account called Bombay Breakfast Project, with its own sunny-side-up logo. "The whole documenting started because I'm a mad Instagram person," says Isaac. "I document everything no matter how irrelevant it is." Kapoor adds, "I'm the graphic designer, but she takes much better pictures. She captures the smell of the food."
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