The mazagran getting its final look at Toops Coffee
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Before Hyderabad’s bartenders take over with shaken or stirred drinks, another set of hands has already been at work behind a different kind of counter: the city’s baristas. The drinks now emerging from Hyderabad’s cafés make it tempting to think of them as daytime mixologists. Coffee shops have become playgrounds for flavour, cold brews and clarified concoctions marked by creativity.Iced coffees are the city’s new pick-me-ups. With the summer heat refusing to relent, coffee drinkers are gravitating towards beverages that are cold, fruity, playful and sweet, while still allowing coffee to remain the hero ingredient. These are not overloaded dessert drinks layered with ice cream, chocolate or cookies. Instead, flavoured iced coffees are essentially flavoured black coffees, pushed into more experimental territory. Iced coffees are the new pick-me ups of Hyderabad.
Spiced apple brew at Karafa
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