From Orange Twigs to Grata.

Where we started

Orange Twigs Cafe opened in Sushant Lok, Gurugram in 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, when eating out mostly meant ordering in. We built it around Italian, Continental and American food made to hold up on the way to your door, and spent a long time on recipes and packaging until a pasta still tasted right after the ride.

Orange Twigs now cooks from Sushant Lok, Greater Kailash 1 and Vasant Kunj. Visit Orange Twigs Cafe

What travel taught us

Most of our ideas never started in a test kitchen. They came from travelling and eating wherever we went: neighbourhood bakeries, cafés that baked their bread that morning, counters where a coffee came with something small and warm beside it.

The scroll was the one we kept coming back to. Where we found it, it was an everyday thing, eaten with coffee at any hour, lightly sweet and more bread than cake. Back home, the version on offer was the big, heavily iced one sold as a treat. Good in its own way, just not the one we missed.

Why Grata is a bakehouse

Delivery taught us a lot, but some food only makes sense fresh, at a table. So Grata puts the bread first. We bake our own focaccia, ciabatta and scrolls, then build breakfast, sandwiches, pastas and salads on them, with coffee and matcha all day.

Because our scroll dough is barely sweet, two of the six skip the sugar altogether: marinara and pesto. They are the ones we are proudest of. Why we make savoury scrolls

Grata means pleasing, welcome and thankful in Latin. That is how we would like the place to feel when you walk up the stairs.