Having your cake and eating it too!

Two hospitality industry stalwarts go independent and bake up a scrumptious storm that’ll make you drool!

I am standing outside the FondArt Bakehouse factory in Lucknow, putting on a hairnet and shoe covers before India’s best pastry chef, Avijit Ghosh, allows me inside his kitchen. Knowing that his ingredients and creations must remain pristine, I am entirely cool with these rules. Rule 1 of any kitchen is that hygiene comes first.

Chef Avijit Ghosh (inset) is the consultant chef at the bakery

Nidhi and Raag Verma’s (inset) idea was to give Lucknow something new and unique