IOur Store
One room.Nothing hidden.
A letterpress works for forty years, shuttered for eight, and open since 2023 as a single room where the counter, the roaster and the gifting table are all in plain sight. This is the whole of it, told from the street inward.
Foundré is one room. The counter, the roaster, the spice drawer and the gifting table all share the same floor, the same light and the same air. Nothing here happens behind a door. If it ends up in your cup, you watched it get there.
IIIThe Brief
Three decisions the room won't compromise on.
01
One room, nothing behind a door
No kitchen door, no pass, no back of house. The counter, the roaster, the spice drawer and the gifting table share a single floor — the same light and air you're standing in right now.
02
Built around the counter, not the seating
Most rooms start with how many people can sit down. This one started with nine metres of counter, and everything else — tables, shelving, the gifting corner — was fitted in around it afterward.
03
By appointment, not by queue
Tastings and gifting consultations run on booked slots, not a waitlist. It costs us turnover, and it's the only way the room stays unhurried instead of tuned for speed.
IVCorner By Corner
The whole room, in seven frames.
Keep scrolling. The room moves past you rather than the page moving underneath it.
01The Facade
Twelve feet of shopfront, and the original press signage left exactly where we found it.
02The Long Counter
Nine metres of burnt teak. Everything is made on this side of it, in front of you.
03The Brew Bar
Four pours can run at once, each one weighed, timed and written into the Ledger.
04The Roasting Window
Fifteen kilos a batch, twice a week, facing the street rather than a back wall.
05The Spice Drawer
Forty-one drawers, each labelled by hand in the week it was filled.
06The Long Table
Eleven seats that we do not split. Book it and the whole table is yours.
07The Gifting Corner
One table, one appointment at a time. Nothing pre-built is ever sitting on it.
VFour Corners
Everything happens on one floor.
01 / 0401The Counter
Nine metres, and no pass to hide behind.
The espresso group, the grinders and the scales all face outward. Ask what is in the hopper and whoever is on bar will hand you the bag rather than describe it.
- 11 seats
- Open from 07:30
02 / 0402The Roaster
Fifteen kilos, roasted in the window.
Two roast days a week, both of them in public. The curve for every batch goes up on the wall beside the machine the same afternoon, including the ones we were unhappy with.
- Tue + Fri
- 15kg batches
03 / 0403The Spice Drawer
Forty-one drawers, labelled by hand.
Cardamom from Idukki, chillies from Guntur, cinnamon that arrives in quills we break at the counter. Every drawer carries the date it was filled, so you always know what you are tasting.
- 41 drawers
- Refilled weekly
04 / 0404The Gifting Corner
One table. One appointment.
The quietest corner of the room, deliberately. Gifting starts as a conversation here — about the person and the occasion — and what gets built comes off the same counter as everything else.
- By appointment
- 14:00 – 19:00
VIMade Of
Six materials, and nothing that pretends to be another.
- Lime plaster
- Walls, hand-floatedSix coats, no paint
- Burnt teak
- Counter and shelvingCharred, then oiled
- Unlacquered brass
- Rails, taps, handlesLeft to darken
- Kota stone
- The floor, throughoutReclaimed and honed
- Raw linen
- Blinds and apronsUndyed, washed soft
- Stoneware
- Every cup you drink fromThrown 40km away
VIIOne Day
From the first charge to the last drawer.
06:40
The roaster comes up to temperature
Long before the doors. The first batch is charged while the room is still dark.
07:30
Doors open, first pour goes down
One filter is brewed and left on the counter for whoever walks in first. It is not on the menu.
11:00
The Ledger is written up
Every specimen on the counter gets its entry for the day — origin, lot, week, and what it went into.
14:00
Gifting consultations begin
The corner table turns over to appointments. One at a time, for as long as each one needs.
17:00
The cupping table goes out
Everyone in the room tastes, including whoever happens to be sitting at the counter.
21:00
Drawers closed, tomorrow weighed
Lights down over the counter, beans weighed out for the morning, and the floor washed by hand.
VIIIThe Room, Counted
Small enough to know by heart.
- Room, counter to roaster
- 00Room, counter to roaster
- Metres of open counter
- 00Metres of open counter
- Spice drawers, labelled by hand
- 00Spice drawers, labelled by hand
- Specimens in the Ledger
- 00Specimens in the Ledger
IXCome And See It
The door is the only thing we keep closed.
The Address
Ground Floor, 14 Ashwath LaneBengaluru 560001The Hours
- Tuesday – Sunday
- 07:30 – 21:00
- Gifting appointments
- 14:00 – 19:00
- Monday
- Closed — the room is cleaned and the drawers refilled