Cafe Coffee Day, Pune

This particular Cafe Coffee Day is tucked away in the Yashodhan Housing Society, specifically at D/3 "Ballal" over in Chintamani Nagar Phase-2. If you’re familiar with the Bibwewadi area in Pune, you probably know where this is. It’s a bit different from the big shiny ones you see in the malls because it’s right here in the middle of a residential society. Manoj Kale is the name on the address here. We spend a lot of time just chatting with the regulars who live nearby. Pune weather is usually okay, but it gets a bit crowded around here in the evenings when everyone gets home from work. The society is mostly families, so we see the same faces quite a lot. It’s not a huge space, just enough to get by. We make a lot of coffee, obviously, and sometimes the machine acts up, but we fix it. It's just a regular part of the neighborhood. People stop in after their walks or while they’re waiting for someone. We don't have a big fancy sign outside, just the usual look. It’s nice being in Bibwewadi-37 because it feels more like a community than the city center. We keep the tables wiped down and the chairs moved around for whoever needs them. It's just us working here every day, making sure things stay decent for the folks who drop in from the housing society. We aren't fancy, just local people working.