Bandra — cafes you can work from

The reference point for Indian specialty coffee, in a Ranwar bungalow that refuses to hurry you.

Built for people with laptops, and honest about it. The best odds in Bandra of a table, a plug and three quiet hours.

Plug points at most tables and light from the right direction. A working cafe that also happens to be pleasant.

Fast wifi and a real salad, until the brunch crowd arrives at one and takes the quiet with them.

Forty teas, eighty seats and soft light in a Bandra bungalow. Does dates and deadlines equally well.

Four decades of Bandra on several floors and a terrace. Closed Mondays, crowded weekends, worth both.

Quiet, comfortable, and one of the few Bandra rooms where a two-person meeting is not a shouting match.

Small, functional, reliably good — the cafe you go to when you need the coffee to just be right.

The quietest room in Bandra, in a bungalow behind Carter Road. Vegetarian, ayurvedic, genuinely calm.

All-vegan, garden-quiet, and unbothered by how long you stay.

Matcha, curved beige everything, and a queue of people photographing it. Better than that description suggests.

Very good breakfast, very little room. A weekday cafe pretending to be a weekend one.

A sandwich shop with the ambition of a restaurant. Eat standing if you have to.

A patisserie that lets you sit down until midnight. Underrated for exactly that.

India's first dedicated siphon bar. Come for the brewing, not for the wifi.