Today has been the day of simple pleasures - those little jewel-bright moments of joy which might not make the headlines or the photo albums, but which make life ever so pleasant and rewarding.
I'd taken the day off to spend some time with my cousin who's moving base to the US. And so the day began with that wonderful lazy feeling of utter well-being when you wake up to your alarm, switch it off and go right back to sleep! Monday morning blues were replaced by Monday morning bliss! :)
Yawning and stretching, I finally got up, only to see that breakfast was a manna from heaven - a cup of my Mom's special chai and a golden, flaky croissant from City Bakery at Worli. This croissant is stuff of dreams - golden-brown crusty top flecked with sesame seeds, and layer upon flaky layer of progressively softer bread till you reach the heart of the pastry - the softest, most buttery pillowy mouthful ever. What's more, City Bakery has managed to retain the heavenly buttery taste and gorgeous looks of this croissant for several decades now - that's consistency for you!
City Bakery does a variety of breads, cakes and biscuits and opens its doors at 6:00 AM sharp every day. Biting into one of the first croissants to come out of their oven at 6:00 AM is one of the un-missable experiences of any food-lover in Mumbai. It also is one of the few affordable luxuries you can still regularly
indulge in - the croissant is priced at a paltry Rs 11. Yes!! While fancy aspiring-to-be-French bakeries are serving small, tightly-packed puff-pastry-like corissants at Rs 60, here is a honest, hard working, no-frills bakery which focusses on quality and taste rather than ambience and airs.
Drive down to Worli some rainy morning with a thermos of hot tea or coffee, and bite into a fresh-from-the oven croissant to understand what the French mean by joie de vivre!
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