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Notes from the house.
Long-reads on Mumbai catering, hosting craft, regional cuisines and the Kravvia method, written by Priti and the editors.
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Diwali 2026
Fifteen festive hampers, ₹1,400 to ₹10,500.
Diwali falls on Sunday 8 November. Branded corporate runs are still open, quoted per order; unbranded boxes run at five working days. The corporate Diwali hampers, ₹1,400 to ₹10,500, the order calendar and catering for the evening itself are on one page; for client and employee gifting the rest of the year, see corporate gifting in Mumbai, branded from 50 units.
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Navratri office catering Mumbai 2026: 11 to 20 October
Navratri runs 11 to 20 October 2026. The published bands for office lunches and garba evenings, strict Jain from ₹850, and where Diwali gifting stands: branded runs still open, quoted per order.
- Catering
Worli Office Catering: Lift Slots and Lead Times
Worli office catering from ₹160 a head daily and ₹650 a guest for events. Why the goods lift sets the delivery window, and what a quote needs.
- Catering
Business meeting catering in Mumbai: what to brief and budget
Board lunches, daily programmes and offsites in published bands: working lunches from ₹650 per guest (from 20), plated from ₹850, the daily programme ₹160 to ₹190 a head.
- Catering
Corporate office party catering in Mumbai: a planner's guide
Diwali falls on 8 November 2026. What a Mumbai office party costs per guest, how many live counters a room needs, and the lead time that binds.
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Corporate Diwali gifting Mumbai: the 2026 order window
Lakshmi Puja falls on 8 November 2026. The original 11 October brief date has passed; branded runs are still open, quoted per order. The quantities, bands and dates that decide a smooth Diwali order.
- Catering
Diwali office party catering: Lower Parel and BKC playbook
Diwali 2026 falls on 8 November, a Sunday, so office parties compress into 2 to 6 November. Formats, counters and booking maths for Lower Parel and BKC floors.
- Hosting
Festive catering calendar Mumbai 2026: Ganesh to New Year
Ganeshotsav opened 14 September; Diwali lands late on 8 November. The full 2026 festive calendar, and the booking deadline that sits behind each date.
- Catering
Ganesh Chaturthi catering Mumbai: offices and societies
How Mumbai offices and housing societies brief Ganeshotsav catering: satvik or strict Jain menus, ten evenings of prasad, drop-off from ₹650 a guest.
- Catering
Jain Diwali gifting for Mumbai offices: a strict-spec guide
A 200-name corporate list reliably includes strict Jain recipients. How to brief a Diwali order so the Jain segment is boxed and labelled on its own.
- Catering
Daily office lunch catering in BKC: the standing account
BKC towers run on schedules, not menus. Kravvia's five-day rotation lands hot at ₹160 to ₹190 per person: the format the district's admins standardise on.
- Catering
Daily office lunch catering in Goregaon: Nesco and beyond
Goregaon East's IT-park floors run big headcounts on tight lunch windows. Kravvia's five-day rotation arrives hot at ₹160 to ₹190 per person.
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Daily office lunch catering in Lower Parel's mill compounds
The mill-compound towers hold law firms, media floors and funds, audiences that notice a repeated menu. Kravvia's five-day rotation runs at ₹160 to ₹190 per person.
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Daily office lunch catering in Powai: built for tech floors
Powai's tech and startup floors eat late, scale fast and carry every dietary spec at once. Kravvia's five-day rotation runs at ₹160 to ₹190 per person.
- Catering
Wedding catering Mumbai: the November to December booking clock
A late Diwali on 8 November 2026 compresses Mumbai's winter wedding season. Why tastings happen in September and the dates worth locking before Navratri.
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Mumbai Monsoon Corporate Catering: The Last-Week-of-May Shift
Nine days separate Mumbai's inter-season lull from the monsoon arrival window. Here is what corporate event managers must lock in before the humidity changes everything.
- Catering
Catering a BKC Tower: Timing, Access and the Brief
Some of Mumbai's most demanding corporate tables sit in BKC. How to spec, time and brief catering for a BKC tower, from ₹650 a guest.
- Brand
2006, BKC: How Kravvia Ran 200 Corporate Covers a Day, and Kept the Home-Kitchen Finish
In 2006, Kravvia's first corporate client needed 200 office lunches daily in BKC. Here is what scaling a wedding kitchen into a five-day operation actually required.
- Brand
2018: How Eight Cuisines Arrived Under One Standard
By 2018, Kravvia ran Italian, Thai, and Mexican alongside Punjabi, Jain, Gujarati, Maharashtrian and Chinese: eight cuisines, produced to Kravvia's specification in FSSAI-licensed partner kitchens. Here is why.
- Brand
Women-Led Catering in Mumbai: The Labour Economics of Building a Culinary House from 1999
In 1999 Santacruz, Priti S Shah entered a wedding-catering market structured entirely around male-run operations. Here is what changed, and what compounded.
- Catering
Jain Corporate Catering in Andheri East: Kravvia
Daily-lunch programmes for SEEPZ, MIDC and Marol offices at ₹160 to ₹190 a head (50-employee minimum), strict Jain alongside; Jain events from ₹850.
- Catering
Vegetarian Wedding Catering in Juhu, Mumbai: Kravvia
200 to 600 guests. Multi-cuisine receptions across Juhu's banquet halls and beach-facing properties. Kravvia has run this brief since 1999.
- Brand
Eight Cuisines, One Spec: How Kravvia Holds Standard Across the Canon
Punjabi, Jain, Gujarati, Maharashtrian, Thai, Italian, Chinese, Mexican: eight cuisines, produced to one Kravvia specification. Depth at this breadth is a structural achievement, not a marketing claim.
- Brand
1999, Santacruz: The Kitchen of Two · A Founder's Note from Priti S Shah
Twenty-seven years ago, before the eight-cuisine catering and the isolated Jain kitchen, Kravvia was a kitchen of two in a 1999 Santacruz flat. This is what scaled.
- Brand
The Jain Promise: A Fully Isolated Jain Kitchen Since 2012
Since 2012, Jain food has come from a fully isolated Jain kitchen (separate prep, separate utensils): no root vegetables, no compromise.
- Catering
Jain Wedding Catering in Bandra West: Kravvia
Bandra West wedding receptions demand Jain menus without compromise. Kravvia has run them since 1999.
- Catering
Live-Counter Catering for Mumbai Corporate Events: A Buyer's Playbook
Mumbai's corporate event circuit runs on live counters. Nine of them at Kravvia: tandoor at 480°C, 90-second wood-fire pizza, build-your-bowl khow suey. Here's how to brief them.
- Brand
Nasik Fields to Mumbai Plate: Kravvia's Sourcing Discipline
The vegetables on a Kravvia wedding plate started in a Nasik field 36 hours earlier. Sourcing discipline is what separates a reliable catering kitchen from one that gets lucky on Tuesday.
- Catering
Corporate catering in Mumbai: a buyer's playbook
From a 25-person board lunch in BKC to a 1,500-guest annual day in Goregaon: five questions that separate caterers who can deliver from caterers who can't.
- Hosting
Why a live counter does the work of two waiters
Nine live-counter formats, the two-counter rule for a 200-guest event, and the cost line most hosts misread.
- Brand
Twenty-seven years on: a conversation with Priti Shah
Kravvia's founder on the 1999 Jain wedding that started it, why 2012 was the hard year, and what comes next.
- Catering
Punjabi wedding catering in Bandra West
What a 400-guest Punjabi reception in Bandra demands: live tandoor, slow-cooked dal makhani from the previous evening, and the loading-dock logistics that decide the night.
- Catering
Jain wedding catering in Juhu: the separation rule
Juhu Jain weddings of 200 to 400 guests need more than onion removal: they need a separated Jain prep area, a rebuilt aromatic base, and a tasting that is itself Jain.
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Board lunch catering in BKC: the highest-stakes meal
A 25-to-50 person board lunch in BKC is the corporate meal where the caterer is judged on logistics as much as flavour. The four dietary requirements and the 20-minute setup window.
- Hosting
Sangeet catering in Andheri West: the late-night spread
The sangeet is the most food-forward event in a Mumbai wedding week: what holds for two hours, what photographs, and which two live counters carry the night.
- Catering
Gujarati thali catering in Powai: the four-flavour balance
A proper Gujarati thali holds sweet, tart, spice and mild on the same plate at once, and the balance is the technical exercise most caterers underestimate.
- Catering
Thai catering in Lower Parel: the coconut cream problem
Thai curry held at standard banquet temperature breaks within 40 minutes. The warmer protocol that keeps the green curry intact for a three-hour service window.
- Hosting
Birthday party catering in Vile Parle: kids to milestone
From a 40-guest first birthday with a waffle bar to a 200-guest fiftieth with a live chaat counter: the Kravvia format for either end of the Vile Parle birthday spectrum.
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Marwadi thali catering in Santacruz: the dal-baati spec
A Marwadi thali has its own grammar: dal baati in clay-oven form, churma sweetened to anchor, ker sangri where the season permits. What Kravvia plates for Santacruz weddings.
- Catering
Italian catering for Goregaon annual days, 200 to 800
The Italian-plus-Indian combination handles a mixed Mumbai workforce without forcing dietary corners. How Kravvia runs two pizza chefs at a 400-guest annual day.
- Catering
Indo-Chinese at a Khar reception: the wok-char rule
Paneer Chilly without wok-char is reheated curry. Why every functional Indo-Chinese spread at a Khar reception needs a live wok station.
- Hosting
Diwali catering and corporate gifting in Worli
Worli office Diwali events and residential society parties: the chaat counter that anchors the night, and the published gifting bands, mithai at ₹850 to ₹2,400 a kilo and fifteen hampers from ₹1,400 to ₹10,500.
- Catering
Sindhi catering for a mehendi in Andheri East
Sai bhaji, Sindhi kadhi and bhuga rice at an Andheri East mehendi: one of Mumbai's most underused regional spreads, and what it requires for 80 to 200 guests.
- Hosting
The Powai birthday counter: pizza oven plus pasta station
A live pizza oven turns the queue into the event. The throughput math, the power-supply audit, and why two chefs are the upgrade above 100 guests.
- Catering
Daily office lunch catering in Andheri East
MIDC and Marol offices need a five-day rotation that does not repeat: Kravvia's standing programme rotates eight cuisines, with a weekly menu vote, at ₹160 to ₹190 per person.
- Hosting
Live chaat counter at a Vile Parle wedding
The chaat counter at a Vile Parle wedding draws a queue inside sixty seconds, and the difference between a chaat specialist and a generalist line cook shows at scale.
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Sugar-free mithai that earns a place on the table
A fruit plate is not an answer. Kravvia's sugar-free line (Honey, Cranberry, Anjeer, Dates and Blueberry, ₹2,400 a kilo) sits on the same dessert table as the full-sugar selection.
- Hosting
Khow suey live counter at Andheri weddings
The Burmese coconut curry noodle, assembled by each guest from a row of condiments, is one of the most photographed counters at any 200-to-400 guest Andheri wedding.
- Catering
Corporate cocktail catering in Worli, 80 to 200 guests
A Worli product launch is a branding event before it is a catering one: passed bites, no buffet wall, and the live counter that opens at the 75-minute mark.
- Hosting
Holi party catering in Andheri West
Outdoor format, hungry post-colour crowd, often Jain-mixed: Holi catering in Andheri West runs on the welcome drinks station and the chaat counter, in that order.
- Hosting
Rakhi catering in Santacruz: family lunch, not event food
A 60-guest Rakhi lunch in Santacruz is benchmarked against a very good family kitchen, not a wedding spread. The format Kravvia plates for the multi-family afternoon.
- Catering
Jain Corporate Catering in BKC: A Buyer's Briefing
Jain specifications are a routine part of BKC corporate briefs. Here's what to spec, what to ask, and what a proper Jain kitchen looks like at scale.