Freshly baked delights using pure, honest ingredients daily
Freshly baked delights using pure, honest ingredients daily
Some businesses begin with a business plan.
Ours began with two neighbours, countless conversations, and a shared love for exceptional food.
In 2025, Rriddhhi and Sanhita became neighbours at Nikoo Homes in North Bangalore. Living on the same floor, they quickly discovered they shared more than an address—they shared an obsession with creating meaningful experiences through food.
For over a decade, Rriddhhi, a Lavonne Academy–trained pastry chef and founder of Cakestacy, had been serving hundreds of loyal customers from her boutique home patisserie. Known for her handcrafted cakes and artisanal desserts, she believed that patience was the most important ingredient in baking.
Sanhita, a serial entrepreneur and Certified Food Manager from California, USA, had spent years building locally based ventures across food, lifestyle, interiors, and retail in India and USA. Her experience taught her that while people appreciate great food, they remember how a place makes them feel.
Their conversations soon turned into a shared dream—to give Cakestacy a larger home where more people could experience freshly baked artisan products.
They began searching for a space.
The vision was simple.
Build everything from scratch.
From the dough... and beyond.
The kitchen came first. Every loaf of bread, every Korean bun, every cheesecake, every croissant and every celebration cake would be handcrafted fresh every day. A café was never part of the plan.
Then something unexpected happened.
People walking past would peek in and ask,
"Can we taste something fresh?"
They happily served their bakes on disposable plates, thinking it was only temporary.
But customers kept returning.
They stayed longer.
They brought friends.
They asked for coffee.
Then breakfast.
So the founders introduced a small English Breakfast menu.
Soon, weekends became fully booked.
Customers started requesting breakfast during the week.
Before long, breakfast wasn't just a weekend affair—it became an everyday favourite, eventually evolving into an all-day café menu filled with comforting classics, fresh sandwiches, specialty coffee, desserts, and handcrafted bakery creations.
What surprised the founders most wasn't the food.
It was the community.
Friends donated books that now fill the reading corner.
Children brought board games that strangers now play together.
Neighbours began treating Dough & Beyond as an extension of their own living room—a place to celebrate birthdays, catch up over coffee, work remotely, read quietly, or simply enjoy slow conversations over fresh food.
Today, Dough & Beyond is much more than an artisan bakery or café.
It is a neighbourhood built around warmth.
Every bread is baked from scratch.
Every dessert is handcrafted with care.
Every meal is prepared as though it were being served at home.
As Dough & Beyond continues to grow, one promise remains unchanged: scale will never replace craftsmanship, and speed will never replace care.
Because the ingredients that matter most aren't listed on the menu.
They're the conversations shared over breakfast, the friendships formed over coffee, the laughter around board games, and the feeling that, for a little while, you've found a place where you belong.
That's what takes us...
From Dough & Beyond.