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Frozen & Desserts
Our freezers run at a disciplined minus twenty-two, holding the season exactly where we caught it. Mahabaleshwar berries picked at dawn, Ratnagiri alphonso churned into gelato within hours of arrival, dim sum pleated each morning in the Colaba kitchen. Since 1962, we have treated cold not as preservation but as patience — flavour, paused mid-sentence.
Signature Provisions
Sold by name.
A standing selection from the frozen & desserts ledger. Prices turn with the season; the standard does not. WhatsApp the counter to reserve today's picks.
Flash-Frozen Mahabaleshwar Strawberries
Picked at first light, frozen within four hours₹545per 400 gBronte Pistachio Gelato
Sicilian pistachios, milled and churned weekly₹1,150per 500 ml pintHand-Pleated Har Gow
Tiger prawn, Cantonese pleating, our Colaba kitchen₹1,250box of 12Kesar-Pista Kulfi Pops
Pampore saffron, slow-reduced buffalo milk₹780box of 6All-Butter Puff Pastry Sheets
Punjab Sharbati wheat, cultured French butter₹695per 640 g, four sheetsFlash-Frozen Garden Peas
Ooty winter crop, podded the same day₹425per 500 gTender Coconut & Gondhoraj Ice Pops
Pollachi coconuts, lime leaf from Bengal₹650box of 4
11 · Frozen & Desserts
Cold enough to keep a Ratnagiri summer waiting.— The Frozen & Desserts counter
Pantry Notes
From the buyer's ledger.
The Four-Hour Rule
Every berry and pea in this aisle is flash-frozen within four hours of picking, the cold chain unbroken from hill farm to Colaba. It is why our Mahabaleshwar strawberries taste of February mornings rather than of the freezer.
Tempering Gelato
Give a pint eight unhurried minutes on the counter before serving; gelato reveals itself a few degrees warmer than ice cream ever would. Once softened, never refreeze — the crystals coarsen and the alphonso forgets itself.
Kulfi, After Dinner
Our kesar-pista kulfi pops take beautifully to a short pour of hot Coorg arabica, in the manner of an affogato. The saffron deepens against the coffee; serve in a steel tumbler, as Matunga always has.