About Us

Eighth is the brainchild of Anurita Ghoshal, who took a break from advertising to study at Le Cordon Bleu Paris. Apart from being a director of a recruitment firm, she bakes at the lovely studio in Bandra and teaches baking classes.

 

Why Eighth?

That last course of a meal has always been the cause of my undoing. Wise and balanced all day, I would succumb miserably at the sight of a piece of chocolate. I would catch myself at the beginning of most dinners fantasising about desserts.

I knew it was sinful, worse than any vice I know. My absolute lack of self-control horrified me. Then one day I read somewhere “Offer your body something so pleasurable that the soul feels like living in it.”

The penny dropped. Epiphany time!

And it was suddenly clear to me that the way out of my guilt trip was to channelize it into something positive; to create pleasures beyond the ambit of seven cardinal sins.

It is only human to succumb to temptations. And after analysing my 'dessert time capitulations’ I realised that what I was indulging in was a combination of the old sins that actually made up a whole new sin.

The Eighth sin, if I may - part lust, part greed and part gluttony.

It seemed like a worthy reason to risk damnation for.

So, I travelled halfway across the world and learnt at the feet of the most perverted masters of decadence - the French - at Le Cordon Bleu Paris; came back and started Eighth - after a lifetime of longing for all things good.

Checkout our menu and delivery details here. You can write to us at eighth.anurita@gmail.com and also find us on Facebook and Instagram.

You can eat some of our pastries at Provenance Bandra and Palladium. And then some more at the Yoga house.
We also help develop dessert menus, consult restaurants for special events, cater to small private events and of course teach baking.