Food: Delicious
Cost:Reasonable
Verdict: 2/4

Before the world got on to the homemade sourdough craze in the pandemic, Vasai resident Jessica Lobo already had her sourdough starter — a mix of flour and water fermented and used to make the bread rise — in the kitchen. She wasn’t following a trend, but a craving. Always on the lookout for authentic bread and bakery products like croissants and focaccia, the 27-year-old baker and her sister Kadambari Lobo, who has been running The Cake Next Door since 2015 decided to launch The Bread Next Door (TBND) nearly three years ago with a menu full of artisanal bakes. While most of the bakehouses selling such treats are located in Bandra, Juhu, Worli and SoBo, the sisters are making French baguettes, thick-crust sourdoughs, croissants, the soon-to-be-available circular chocolate-filled croissants, cruffins and more in Vasai. “People here aren’t used to sourdough as they are to soft pav. It is catching on as more people try it. Since there are no authentic croissants made from laminated dough here, those are our bestsellers,” Jessica tells us.

Kadambari Lobo and Jessica Lobo