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Nuts & Dry Fruits
Since 1962, our dry-fruit counter has weighed the subcontinent's winter wealth on the same brass scales. Mamra almonds arrive whole and unbleached, Iranian pistachios travel by air within a fortnight of harvest, and Medjool dates stay chilled until the moment they reach you. Everything is hand-graded in Colaba; nothing sits on our shelves longer than a season.
Signature Provisions
Sold by name.
A standing selection from the nuts & dry fruits ledger. Prices turn with the season; the standard does not. WhatsApp the counter to reserve today's picks.
Akbari Pistachios
Kerman, single estate₹1,650per 400 g tinJumbo Medjool Dates
Jordan Valley, tree-ripened₹1,150per 500 g boxSun-Dried Anjeer
Kandahar, autumn picking₹895per 400 gShakarpara Apricots
Hindu Kush foothills, stone-in₹745per 400 gKashmiri Snow Walnuts
Kupwara, hand-cracked kernels₹1,250per 500 gCharmagaz & Toasted Seed Mix
Toasted each morning, Colaba kitchen₹625per 350 g jarThe Colaba Hamper No. 4
Assembled to order, eight compartments₹4,950boxed assortment, 1.2 kg
13 · Nuts & Dry Fruits
The mountain's harvest, weighed out by hand since 1962.— The Nuts & Dry Fruits counter
Pantry Notes
From the buyer's ledger.
On Mamra
Barely one almond in twenty grown anywhere is a true mamra — rain-fed, never irrigated, recognisable by its humped, oil-dense kernel that crackles rather than snaps. Ours come through the same Herat broking family our founders first shook hands with in 1967.
Cold Keeps Character
Nut oils are perishable; decant kernels into airtight glass and refrigerate, where they hold true for six months, or freeze for a full year. Dates ask only for a cool, dark shelf — never the fridge door, where they dry and crystallise.
With the Coffee
Split a Medjool, slip in a toasted mamra, and serve beside a short Coorg arabica — the date's caramel meets the bean's cocoa edge precisely. Shakarpara apricots, simmered briefly in their own soaking water, do quiet justice to saffron kulfi.