The first Bayroute began with an image: hot air balloons drifting over Cappadocia at dawn, suspended between earth-toned cliffs and an open sky. That single picture became the seed for everything the brand would go on to build - the lanterns that hang in clusters across every Bayroute outlet are not decoration borrowed from elsewhere, but a direct translation of those balloons, caught mid-rise.

Cuffe Parade is where that idea was worked out in full. The walls take their colour and texture from Cappadocia's volcanic landscape - warm, sandy, weathered surfaces that feel carved rather than built. Underfoot, hand-laid blue and white tile work runs the length of the room, a literal grounding device: if the lanterns above are the balloons in flight, the blue below is the water and sky they're suspended between, the room's own horizon line. Arched mirror clusters fracture the light across both, multiplying the sense of being held inside a landscape rather than a restaurant.

Brass threads through everything - warm, hammered, catching candlelight the way old riads do - paired with rust velvet seating and jewel-toned upholstery that grounds the room's earthen palette. A sequence of ornate plastered archways leads guests from the bar deeper into a series of intimate, lantern-lit nooks, each one a smaller version of the same idea: a sky to look up into, and solid ground to sit on beneath it.

Five more Bayroute outlets have opened across Mumbai since, each reinterpreting the Cappadocia concept in its own register. But Cuffe Parade is where the language was first written - the room every other outlet is, in some way, still in conversation with.