They had us at ‘bun’. My fellow diner and I, being the ardent dessert lovers that we are, are always on the lookout for something novel to appease our sweet tooth. Cupcakes are passé, and so are doughnuts and macaroons. So when we are invited to taste choux buns at the newly opened BunMen at Breach Candy, we decide to brave peak-time traffic in our quest for something new.

Hazel’s Nuts has a creamy, chocolate filling

BunMen is the brainchild of lawyer-investment banker duo Hormuz Mehta and Kushal Bhammar, who explain to us that they opened BunMen out of sheer passion. The few years that the two spent abroad — Mehta in the UK and Bhammar in the US — convinced them to give an Indian twist to choux buns for the pav and bread-loving Indian audience.