Breakfast Is Served

Restaurateur and the force behind the popular fine dining restaurant, The Table, Gauri Devidayal sets up a summer spread in her Mumbai apartment.

- Aditi Pai

The black leather-finished square table is a mélange of a colours and aromas as restaurateur Gauri Devidayal sets up a luscious breakfast table at her 13th floor home in Mumbai’s Nepean Sea Road. On the table are her summertime breakfast favourites—cold smoked salmon, chilled granola, yogurt, fresh fruits, waffles, croissants, a cheese platter and sparkling wine. “People don’t make time for breakfast. We want to urge people to have a great breakfast at least on a Sunday. Bring out the summer berries and cold soups and throw in a glass of Pimms or iced tea,” she says. Devidayal brought breakfast back in fashion with her Mag Street Bread Company that’s dishes out fresh-from-the-oven breads, croissants and cinnamon rolls. A Sunday morning ritual is the Bake Sale at her flagship Colaba restaurant, The Table, where breads and bakes are up for sale at