Restaurant India News: Savorworks Expands to Gurgaon with a Refined Retail-Café Experience

Artisanal coffee and chocolate cafe Savorworks expands to Gurgaon with a new format that moves beyond the traditional café bringing together craft, design, and a dynamic day-to-night experience under one roof.

Founded by SCA-certified coffee roaster Baninder Singh and chocolatier Paweena Withyasathien Kochar, Savorworks has built a following for its precision-led approach to coffee and bean-to-bar chocolate.

The Gurgaon outlet marks a natural evolution of this journey, introducing a more refined, hospitality-driven space that blends retail, dining, and mixology.

“With Gurgaon, we wanted to move beyond the idea of a café as a single-format space. This outlet allowed us to explore how people engage with coffee and chocolate across the day from a slower, more immersive daytime experience to a more social, high-energy environment in the evening. It’s less about adding new elements and more about expanding how the same core ingredients can be experienced differently,” shared the founders.

A Space Designed Around Coffee and Chocolate, designed by Aayushi Malik, The Gurgaon outlet translates the brand’s core world of coffee and chocolate into a tactile, design-forward environment. The interiors draw from the raw forms of cacao and coffee, expressed through layered textures, sculptural elements, and thoughtful detailing across surfaces. Among the defining features is a merchandise dome inspired by cacao pods, alongside a striking installation behind the coffee bar that reimagines Savorworks’ signature chocolate bar at an exaggerated scale.

With over 70 offerings across coffee, chocolate, food, and beverages, the emphasis is on exploration rather than transaction. Guests are encouraged to engage with the products tasting, discovering, and curating their selections in-store, creating an experience that draws closer to a modern artisanal sweet shop than a traditional café format.

The Chocolate Tap as a Centrepiece, A standout element within the space is Savorworks’ signature chocolate tap, an interactive feature that allows guests to experience chocolate in its fluid form.

Post 7 PM, the café evolves into an open-format bar, introducing a program that builds on Savorworks’ expertise in coffee and chocolate. The cocktail menu reinterprets these core ingredients through a mixology lens, offering flavour-forward drinks alongside curated bar bites with Thai influences.

This shift reflects a growing change in urban dining culture where spaces adapt seamlessly across dayparts, moods, and occasions. The cocktail program extends the philosophy behind 

Looking ahead, Savorworks aims to become a national benchmark for artisanal coffee and chocolate, with plans for international expansion over the next five to seven years.