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Magna Bar and Café, Thane

Magna, a word-play for magnificent, puts forth a desire to create larger than life experiences in the hospitality sector. Providing a unique affair of one-of-a-kind food courses, espresso variants and cocktail recipes, Magna Bar and Café fills in a visible gap in the market of Thane restaurants.

The 120 seater coffee to cocktail allday-café offers private dining victorias, dome dining for the perfect dates, romantic proposals, and swing seating for the casual catchups. Magna wishes to entertain work colleagues for their meetings, college students to hang-out with their friends, families to have intimate gatherings and couples to have a romantic rendezvous.

Situated at the Thane club, Magna Bar and Café is the fourth venture of the restaurateur Niketa Sharma. As the CEO of Thane club for 9 years now, Sharma turned this family-owned property into a cool hub with distinct and exceptional restaurants like Love Leaf Café, a fast-food American cuisine poolside café, Masaledaar - a revamped version of north Indian and Indian Chinese, launched in September; and Magna, a rooftop café and bar introduced recently to the Thane club.

A place to grab your coffee and clink your glasses, Magna is a versatile bar and café with a chic, feminine, Instagramable vibe and with a global palette for all tastebuds. Expect multi-cuisine with all-ingredientsmade-fresh-inthe-kitchen menu comprising of Asian, Mediterranean, Continental, and fusion Indian.

Come day, the menu is an allday café carte with delicious and mouth-watering freaky shakes featuring cassata, lotus biscoff, pink tiramisu, variety of savoury n sweet waffles, brunch eggs and adaptable and innovative food choices like paneer tikka croissant sandwich, and thecha hummus, California crab stick sushis, hand rolled pastas and raviolis, wafer thin pizzas, Victoria pancakes and much more for all taste palettes. This menu transitions to bubble blaster cocktails, bar nibbles, a mezze station and more appetising food dishes by sunset. Magna also offers a separate Jain food menu.

Refining and uplifting their carte du jour are Magna’s espresso variants like blue pea coffee. Cold pressed dark chocolate with orange peels and black coffee in a margarita glass is an espresso variant, better together mocktail - a fusion of fruits infused with ginger ale, bubble bursting cocktail infused with rose and variety of tequila and vodka shots for all – that’s how extraordinary and unparalleled is Magna Bar and Café.

A heavenly abode for coffee lovers, Magna serves a classic black coffee with raspberry, rose berry and blackberry flavours, all of which are prepared in-house by the chefs. The bar menu at Magna also has craft beers, cocktail like float on, that’s amore and Gin and Tonic’s to sangria for all.

To top it all, the grandeur of Magna is unmatched. The premium all day brunch and bar cafe is breaking the stereotype in Thane by bringing in a fresh breathe with its magnanimous view, grand vibes and getting the coffee to cocktail concept into all-day aspect with an accessible price point in the neighbourhood. With its never-seen-before concept, the place will draw an unparalleled experience for Thanekars without having to travel miles for hours. A place unlike any other in the vicinity in every sense from interior décor to food and drinks, Magna’s cuisines have been altered to the tastes of the ever experimental yet rooted adjoining areas of Thane, Mulund, Powai and nearby areas.

Chef Prasad Parab says, “We together have curated a one-of-a-kind menu for Magna, bringing Asian, Mediterranean and other global cuisines keeping in mind the ever-exploring palate of Thane”.

“I have an almost of a decade’s experience in hospitality and now this is my 4th restaurant launch in one year. With Magna I want to create a great sensory and culinary experience, in a neighbourhood that has immense potential for growth”, adds Niketa Sharma.