Weekday Mornings
The Coffee Lab
A four-seat tasting bar where the roaster walks you through three estates side by side — same origin, three brew methods, one conversation.
"You won't order the same way twice."
02 — The Long Story
Built from a courtyard, not a brief.
Khan Market, New Delhi
Founder's Note
An architect who couldn't stop drawing coffee bars.
Naina Verma trained as an architect in Ahmedabad and spent six years restoring havelis before she ever pulled a shot of espresso. Atelier No. 9 began as a sketch of the courtyard itself — the old stone arches, a jali screen salvaged from a demolition in Daryaganj, light moving across the floor by the hour.
The coffee came second. The room came first. That order has never reversed.
Sourcing Philosophy
Coffee with a return address.
Every bean on the bar is traceable to a single estate — Baba Budangiri, Chikmagalur, the shade-grown plots of Coorg, the Araku Valley cooperatives in Andhra Pradesh. We roast in small batches twice a week, never more than we can sell fresh, and we publish the cupping notes on the board behind the bar, not on a laminated card.
It is, in the end, a very old Delhi instinct: buy from someone you know, in season, and don't apologise for the price.
"We didn't want a cafe that photographed well. We wanted one that held up at 7am with one customer, and at 11pm with forty."
— Naina Verma, Founder & Architect