Cafe Delhi Heights Launches a New Culinary Haven 'Ikigai'

Comfort Bakehouse, a branch of the popular Café Delhi Heights brand, has announced the inauguration of its standalone store in Gurgaon.

Brand offers a nourishing menu that combines a wide array of dishes such as variety of freshly baked bread, delectable croissants, and creamy cakes.

The menu has choices such as pastas, noodles, burgers, pizzas, Pao Bhaji, Makhani Maggi, and bread pakoda.

The main course offers popular favorites like Dal Makhanwala, Yellow Dal Tadka, Punjabi Kadhi Chawal, and many other enticing options.

"We are delighted to introduce Comfort Bakehouse to the city. Our goal is to create a haven where people can find solace in the simple pleasures of fresh and delicious comfort food. With our exclusive outlet, we hope to bring joy and satisfaction to even more individuals and continue to be their preferred choice for delightful culinary experiences." said, Vikrant Batra, Owner.

Comfort Bakehouse not only offers its own dishes but also allows visitors to indulge in the signature delicacies of Café Delhi Heights.

These include the Juicy Lucy Burgers, the famous ISBT Makhani Maggi, the Mom's Buttered Chicken Tikka Masala, as well as a variety of pizzas and pastas.

The menu represents a fusion of traditional recipes such as Nutella Brownies and Motichoor Ladoo Cheesecake, showcasing the culinary team's passion and dedication in crafting each dish in-house.

The opening of its exclusive outlet brand is elevating the concept of comfort food, providing a cozy and inviting sanctuary for food lovers.  

After the successful stint of Cafe Delhi Heights in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Pune, Gurgaon, Noida & Ludhiana - it has entered the City of Nawabs - Lucknow. 

The outlet is located in the most premium Riverside mall in Gomti Nagar. One of the most prominent and esteemed entrepreneurs of Lucknow Rajesh Ladhani has lent his city insights and experience and has taken the plunge to get Cafe Delhi Heights to his city with the conviction that Cafe Delhi heights is going to be a huge success in the city of Lucknow.

“We are delighted to see that we have succeeded in winning the hearts of customers by providing consistency of food quality and focusing on a great customer experience. We started our journey from our first outlet at Crosspoint Mall, Gurgaon in 2011 and now we have more than 30 outlets across the country and are planning to open up in more cities,” shared Vikrant Batra, Owner at Café Delhi Heights.

Cafe Delhi Heights popularly known as CDH is a cool, groovy and fun cafe that presents its full of life vibe, delicious food and magnificent ambience for the youth of the city.

“I was very confident about Café Delhi Heights as a product and concept both, but winning so much of customers' love, loyalty and following is the biggest achievement. Surviving and expanding in the industry and sustaining the essence of the brand with continuous innovations has always been our mission. Food has always been the key focus area for us and we believe in not only understanding the palette of the audience but also innovating and experimenting with it in the most comfortable manner”, added Batra.

Cafe Delhi Heights also became India’s first restaurant to serve inside the famous historical heritage monument, The Red Fort. Serving its delectable courses amidst the heritage, it is a great feeling for Cafe Delhi Heights to have completed more than a decade in the industry and also becoming the first restaurant in the country to be situated inside a world-renowned heritage monument.

Casual dining chain Café Delhi Heights enters into a new segment by launching Bakehouse Comfort.

The café is set to open at Cyber Park Gurgaon, but is ready to entice its audience from its Comfort space designed within Café Delhi Heights at DLF Avenue Saket as its debut. 

“Cafe Delhi Heights is a value-driven concept and has a distinct mix of nostalgia and history attached to it. With the idea of building up a place where one can build great memories full of fun, Cafe Delhi Heights is a gastronomic representation of what a typical Delhiite would like to gorge on,” said Vikrant Batra, Founder, Café Delhi Heights. 

Coming up with its own Comfort Bakery, the brand is surely - All you’ll knead in your life. With a loaf to love here, Bakehouse Comfort offers a festival of flavours, goodies for the foodies and strictly allows Food Vibes Only!

The menu includes some of customers favorite breads & desserts from around the world; right from freshly baked breadbaskets to cakes, pastries and cookies that are made from scratch - the offerings are a testament to traditional recipes married with modern additions, like Brownies with Baileys and Biscoff Cheesecakes to name a few.

Millennial style property and  regional Indian cafe Dhansoo Café has opened a new outlet at Pacific Mall, Tagore Garden, Delhi.

Founder Vikrant Batra has a distinct mix of cutting edge design, intrinsic quality, and appeal for his entire restaurants and this new Dhansoo Café also promises to serve something new to its guests.

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The cafe has the perfect setting, or a personal space, where people can be excited, jittery & awesome.  An alternative to a place where everything goes amazing, it is a place with good food, lovely music along with an eccentric vibe & dazzling feeling.

Located at one of the busiest mall in Delhi, the café will make you enter into a cool world of colourful, magical & eclectic energy. The mood of the restaurant is further enhanced with a façade that welcomes the joyous seekers with Dhansoo written in three basic languages. With comfortable seating & soothing interiors, guests can experience fabulous moments from the time they enter till the time they bid goodbye.

The new restaurant takes one on the journey of original flavours with full power food & dynamic mysticism. With a concept that boasts of an A la Carte menu of nouveau beauties, it serves signatures & original food that brings back the legacy and lost stories around it.

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“With specialties full of Indian influences, sit & eat at a place where the food is the king again. A place where dishes change with exploration & experimentation, get set to devour a series of flavourful creations, shared Vikrant Batra, Founder, Dhansoo Café.

With a crafted legacy, Chef Ashish Singh helms the kitchen chronicle, reconditioning the Pan Indian recipes bringing forth the best of what is Dhansoo.

Cafe Delhi Heights now extends its wings with its arrival at Inorbit Mall, Malad.

The restaurant offers a perfect casual dining experience with a wide range of North India, Italian, Continental and American cuisines.

The 86 seater restaurant offers a subtle ambience to lighten up your mood. With Indoor, outdoor and bar style seating one can stay away from the hustle bustle and enjoy a relaxed evening.

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“Customers are always willing to explore new places when it comes to food and entertainment. With the addition of Café Delhi Heights to the F&B category, now shoppers can enjoy a safe a superior dining experience. With new addition of brands, Inorbit has stayed relevant to consumers. With new offerings Inorbit has emerged as one of the preferred shopping destinations of the city,” said Naviin Ibhrampurkar, Head of Marketing and Corporate Communication, Inorbit Mall.

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With an extensive menu, every visitor can satiate their hunger pangs with lip-smacking dishes that are inspired by the provinces itself. With efficient chefs tossing up your meal, you are assured of food that will call for a repeat visit. The bar menu also offers an array of drinks and spirits to choose from.

The newly opened restaurant is located on the 2^ndfloor of Inorbit Malad.

Casual dining chain Café Delhi Heights has reopened for dine-in in Delhi-NCR and Chandigarh.

The restaurant is also doing delivery and takeaway. It has partnered with Swiggy, Zomato for delivery.

It has opened outlets at Rajouri Garden, R Cube Monad Mall, Janakpuri, Unity One Mall- Pacific Mall, Tagore Garden, Crosspoint Mall, Gurgaon DLF phase 4, Khan Market, Sangam Courtyard, RK Puram, Ambience Mall Gurgaon, Vegas Mall Dwarka, Starling Mall Noida Sec 104, Aerocity, DLF Cyber Hub, DLF Promenade, Vasant Kunj Good Earth Mall, Gurgaon and Elante Mall, Chandigarh.

In 2019, it also announced that it will opening smaller format of the restaurant.

Known for its quirky atmosphere, it is following all safety and hygienic measure as per the WHO norms.

As part of its expansion blueprint, Cafe Delhi Heights, a privately-held cafe and fine-dine restaurant chain, will be setting up smaller formats of its flagship brand.

Vikrant Batra, Co-Founder of Cafe Delhi Heights, promoted by hospitality company Batra Bros Foods & Beverages, said, “Lower rentals, quicker break-even and servicing from centralised kitchens will give us more efficiencies on topline and profitability. We intend to go to markets where Capex is low.”

Cafe Delhi Heights will fund its expansion plans internally.

“We have been approached multiple times by private equity players but we’re not opting for external funding in the mid to short term,” Batra stated.

The company’s plans to include smaller format stores come at a time when the industry is dealing with multiple challenges like the withdrawal of the input tax credit and deep discounting by aggregators both of which have impacted their profitability.

Future Plans

The fine-dine restaurant chain’s expansion will involve a mix of large and smaller format outlets, the latter to tap captive markets with relatively lower spending like universities. The chain will also tap railway stations and airports, apart from overseas where it may franchise operations.

Cafe Delhi Heights’ first international outlet is expected to debut in Manchester.

The brand is planning to cross sales of Rs 100 crore in 2019-20.

Restaurant Industry

National Restaurants Association of India’s (NRAI) food services report estimates the industry at more than Rs 4 lakh crore in FY19, forecasted to grow to Rs 5.5 lakh crore by 2021.

In November 2017, the government slashed GST rates on restaurants to 5% from 18% but scrapped input tax credit which the industry said escalated capital expenses and rentals by 15-18%.

Batra stated, “The withdrawal of the input tax credit has been a big setback on profitability and margins.”

RI Bureau

Cafe Delhi Heights, the casual dining chain operated by restaurateur Vikrant Batra, is planning to open eight outlets in next two years.

“We are planning to open eight outlets in next two years, and will be opening four outlets each year,” Batra told Restaurant India in an exclusive interaction.

The restaurant chain which has become one of the happening destination in the Delhi-NCR region presently has five outlets at most of the premium malls located in the city.

The group which has successfully catered to the locals here is also planning to expand to other cities including Mumbai, Bengaluru and Pune by next year.

“We are also planning to enter cities like Mumbai and Bengaluru keeping the same pace in Delhi-NCR as we will be opening our next outlet in Sangam Courtyard opposite DPS RK Puram soon,” added Batra.

Known for its Juicy lucy burgers, the group is also targeting at building Rs 80-90 crore umpire by the end of FY2015.

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RI Bureau

Cafe Delhi Heights, owned by serial restaurateur and entrepreneur Vikrant Batra and operated by Lite Bite Foods, has opened outlet at terminal 1D, New Delhi.

Cafe Delhi Heights presently has five outlets running at different malls in Gurgaon and Delhi with locations like Cyber hub and DLF Saket.

Rohit Aggarwal, Director, Lite Bite Foods said, “With various fine-dining and quick-service restaurants, the airport has transformed into a foodie’s paradise. Opening Café Delhi Heights at terminal 1D adds yet another offering in our bouquet of QSR outlet that we operate at the airport.”

"Delhi has witnessed the rule of many Emperors from varied cultures and regions of the world. Therefore it has adopted all kinds of traits in its culture. Food being an integral part of that adaption, we at CDH have tried to encapsulate all those flavours giving you the look and feel of the capital in its totality,” shared Batra.

Lite Bite Foods already has a Street Food by Punjab Grill outlet at T3 terminal and a Baker Street outlet that was recently awarded ‘Airport outlet of the year’ at the Indira Gandhi International Awards, 2015. The company also operates various other brands at the airports such as – Pizza Hut, KFC and has plans to start Burger King, Krispy Kreme, 4700 BC and Belgian Fries at this location.

Meanwhile, with up to 40 million passengers travelling annually at IGI, established food concepts and emerging brands are increasingly recognizing the potential of such high-footfall transport hubs. Also, airports are also adding a more local feel to their spaces in an attempt to offer travelers a better sense of what that city has to offer, added Lite Bite Foods.