Venkatesh Bournvita & Coffee House

We opened up here in Kothrud inside the Arun Society complex quite a few years back. It’s Unit 2, right near the Om Super Market on SB Road. If you walk down Gokhale Road, you can usually see a few people standing around outside our counter. We mostly just focus on getting the coffee right every morning. It gets pretty crowded around 8 AM when people are heading to work or just finished their daily walks. My brother and I run the place and we don't have any fancy machines or anything like that. Just the basic stuff. We keep Bournvita on the menu because a lot of the kids from the society ask for it after they finish school in the afternoon. Sometimes the milk delivery is late and we have to wait around for a bit, but that’s just how it is with a small shop. We try to keep the place clean, though the floor gets dusty pretty fast with the main road right there. It’s not a big cafe with sofas or soft music. There are just a few stools and the wooden counter where we work. We’ve known most of our customers for years now. They come in, get their drink, chat for two minutes about the traffic or the weather, and then they go. It’s a simple routine for us. We’re just here doing our job every day from morning till evening. It is just a local spot for a quick drink.