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The Bombay Café List

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(This blog is a work in progress, thanks for bearing with author:)) Even as I start creating this post, I realise that this is gonna be large and long-term project. The café scene in Mumbai is vibrant and gigantic. This isn't one small city that we are talking about- this is a large cauldron of culture and commerce that thrives on caffeine. And while that's not even close all that these multitude of cafés have to offer, coffee is a serious culinary matter.  Cutting to the chase, here goes an attempt to document my experiences across various cafés that this city has to offer.  Bombay to Barcelona Library Café Marol, Andheri (East) This is a place that boasts two features that makes it stand apart: 1. The "library" part of the name leads to an aesthetic interior, the walls adorned with art and a bookshelf along the wall completing the theme 2. The entire staff working there consists of formerly homeless street kids, who have been retrained to work in a restaurant settin...