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Bread that takes 36 hours. Mornings that take one bite.

LEVAIN is a wild-yeast bakery and celebration-cake studio in Ranwar Village, Bandra. We feed our starter at 5 AM, pull sourdough three times a day, and build cakes that people plan parties around.

Reserve a warm loaf Design your cake
07:30 · 12:30 · 17:00Daily bake times
36 hrsCold fermentation
Chapel RoadRanwar Village, Bandra W
4.9 ★2,300+ reviews
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The morning ritual

One starter, fed daily since 2017. Everything else follows.

Our levain — the wild-yeast culture the bakery is named for — has been alive for nine years. Every loaf on the counter starts with it, two mornings before you taste it. This is how a LEVAIN day unfolds.

The starter wakes first

5:00 AM. Head baker Nathan D'Souza feeds the levain with stone-milled Khapli wheat and filtered water. Forty minutes later it doubles — the day officially begins.

Khapli · emmer wheat
AM5:00
Baker dusting flour across a wooden work table
Hands kneading and shaping dough on a bakery counter
AM6:10

Shaping, by hand only

Dough that fermented cold for 36 hours is divided, pre-shaped and bench-rested. No machines touch it — tension in a sourdough skin is a wrist-feel thing, not a setting.

Hand-shaped · small batch

First bake of the day

The deck oven hits 250°C and the 07:30 batch goes in — country sourdough, miche, seeded rye. The crackle you hear when crusts cool is called "singing". We never get tired of it.

Deck oven · 250°C
AM7:30
Freshly baked sourdough loaves cooling on jute
Patisserie counter filled with fresh pastries and sandwiches
AM8:00

The counter fills, Bandra arrives

Croissants out of lamination, the counter dressed, first flat whites pulled. Regulars from Ranwar and Pali Hill queue before we unlock. By 9:15 the first sourdough batch is usually gone.

Get here early — or reserve
The oven clock

Next sourdough batch, out of the oven in

We bake three times a day so bread never sits. Watch the clock, reserve your loaf, and it's pulled aside the moment the batch lands — still warm when you collect it.

Morning Country Batch
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Reserve from this batch

Pick your loaf — we set it aside with your name on the tag, kept warm for 90 minutes after the bake.

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Reservation total₹385
Today's bakes

The counter, while it lasts.

Everything is baked on Chapel Road the same day you eat it. Unsold bread goes to the Bandra community fridge at 9 PM — so we'd rather run out than overbake.

The cake studio

Design the cake. Watch it appear.

Choose tiers, flavour, frosting and your topper message — the preview and price update live. When it's perfect, send it straight to our pastry team on WhatsApp.

Your cake₹1,850

A single-tier vanilla bean cake in silk buttercream.

1 How tall is the occasion?

2 Pick the sponge

3 Dress it in frosting

4 Say something on top

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Hand-piped topper board adds ₹150. Leave blank to skip.

See real cakes first
Inside the studio — chef Alisha crumb-coating a two-tier silk buttercream
0hCold fermentation
0+Loaves baked weekly
0+Celebration cakes made
0yrsSame living starter
Bandra says

Loved a little loudly.

"I reserved a country loaf on the oven clock, walked over from Pali Hill, and it was still warm when they handed it across. No bakery in Mumbai respects bread — or your time — like this."
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Aditi KelkarPali Hill · every Saturday, 07:40
"Designed my mum's 60th cake in their Cake Studio at midnight — three tiers, pistachio-rose, 'Shashtipoorti Amma' on the topper. What arrived was exactly the preview, but better. She cried."
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Rohan NairKhar West · Cake Studio order #2214
"As a chef I'm fussy about lamination. Their kouign-amann is the best pastry being made in this city, and their rye outclasses what I ate across Copenhagen. Twelve per batch is a crime, though."
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Chef Meher F.Restaurateur · Bandra West
"Our office runs on their weekday bread subscription. The tin arrives before standup, the sourdough is warm, and honestly Monday attendance has improved. Not a joke."
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Sana IraniFounder · BKC studio, weekday tin
The bread tin

Never run out of real bread.

A returnable LEVAIN tin, delivered warm on a schedule you choose. Pause anytime on WhatsApp — we're not a telecom company.

Weekend Tin

₹745 / weekend
  • 1 country sourdough, Saturday 8 AM
  • 2 croissants + 1 cardamom roll
  • Bandra W · Khar W delivery included
MOST LOVED

Every-Morning Tin

₹2,450 / week
  • Fresh loaf daily, Tue–Sun before 8:30
  • Rotates: country, miche, rye, baguette
  • Free kouign-amann every Sunday
  • Bandra · Khar · Santacruz · BKC

Office Tin

₹4,900 / week
  • 3 loaves + 12 viennoiserie, Mon–Fri
  • Delivered to reception before 9 AM
  • Monthly cake credit worth ₹1,850
Good questions

Before you ask the baker.

The things Bandra asks us most — over the counter, on WhatsApp, and once, memorably, through the kitchen window.

Ask something else

48 hours for single-tier studio cakes, 4–5 days for two and three tiers. Send your design from the Cake Studio above and we'll confirm the slot within the hour. For same-week weddings, call — we occasionally shuffle the oven schedule for love.

Yes — no commercial yeast anywhere in the bread programme. Every loaf is leavened by the same culture we started in 2017, fed on stone-milled Khapli (emmer) wheat. That's why the crumb is tangy, digestible and keeps for days without preservatives.

Every Cake Studio flavour is available eggless at no extra cost — mention it in your WhatsApp order. Our Litchi-Rose Cloud and Vanilla Bean sponges are eggless by default. Viennoiserie contains butter and can't be made vegan (we've tried; we cried).

We hold reservations 90 minutes after each batch. After that, your loaf goes back on the counter and your reservation rolls to the next batch — once, free. No-shows twice in a row and the oven clock starts judging you (gently).

Same-day across Bandra W, Khar W, Santacruz W and BKC — free above ₹800, otherwise ₹60. South Mumbai and Andheri–Juhu on a next-morning run, ₹120. Tiered cakes are hand-delivered by the studio team in a chilled box, ₹250 anywhere in the city.

First Sunday of every month we run a 7 AM oven-side hour — six seats, filter coffee, and the 07:30 batch pulled in front of you (₹450, redeemable against bread). Cake tastings for weddings and large orders are by appointment, Wednesdays 4–6 PM.

Baker standing proudly in front of the bread shelf
Barista at the bakery counter ready to serve
Find us

An old Ranwar cottage that smells like 7 AM.

We took a 90-year-old East Indian cottage on Chapel Road, kept the rafters and the floor tiles, and put a deck oven where the courtyard was. Come for the loaf, stay for the second coffee.

14 Chapel Road, Ranwar Village

Bandra West, Mumbai 400050 — two lanes in from Hill Road, look for the raspberry door.

Hours
Tuesday – Friday7:30 AM – 9:00 PM
Saturday – Sunday7:00 AM – 9:30 PM
MondayOven rest day — closed
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Orders & cake consultations

WhatsApp us on +91 86691 17894 — replies between bakes, usually under 20 minutes.

Same-day delivery

Bandra W · Khar W · Santacruz W · BKC before 7 PM. Loaves travel in paper, never plastic.

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