Shree Datta Sweet Mart

Shukrawar Peth 585 is where you will find us at Shree Datta Sweet Mart. The kitchen starts early, usually before the sun is even up. We have big pots of milk boiling and people busy stirring. It’s hot work, but that’s how you make good sweets. We don’t use machines for everything; a lot of it is done by hand. My father started this, and now we just keep it going. The display cases get filled up every morning. Some days are much busier than others, especially during festival times. Then, we barely have time to sit down. We mostly sell to the local families who have been coming here for generations. The floor is always a bit sticky from the sugar, no matter how much we clean it. We get our ingredients from the same people we’ve used for years. It’s a small shop, and sometimes the line goes out the door, but we work as fast as we can. We aren't looking to open more branches or anything. This one shop is enough for us to handle. We just want to make sure the sweets taste right. If the batch isn't good, we don't sell it. That's just how we do things here. It's a lot of long hours, but seeing people happy with their purchase makes it okay. We take pride in the simple way we run the mart and how we treat the regulars who visit us.