The premium bakery-café group is seeking to open 100 outlets across India by 2035 as part of a master franchise agreement with Bake & Brew Private Limited
Belgian bakery-café chain Le Pain Quotidien has returned to the Indian market with an outlet at Mumbai’s Palladium Mall.
The store is located within the shopping centre’s Gourmet Village zone, which houses over 25 local and international F&B brands, including premium dessert concept Gold By Ice Cream Works and high-end restaurants Burma Burma and Kuuraku.
Le Pain Quotidien, French for ‘the daily bread’, launched in India in 2010 but exited the market during the pandemic in 2020. In August 2024, the business signed a master franchise agreement with Bake & Brew Private Limited to re-enter the market and open more than 100 outlets by 2035.
Founded by Alain Coumont in Brussels in 1990, Le Pain Quotidien operates more than 200 outlets across 18 markets globally. The bakery-café chain is expecting to open a second Mumbai site before the end of 2025, before expanding to other major Indian cities and focusing on travel hub locations.
Le Pain Quotidien’s re-launch in India comes amid significant branded coffee shop market growth in the South Asian country. Greek coffee chain Coffee Island, Indonesia’s Kopi Kenangan and French bakery-café group Bagelstein have all launched in India in 2025, while US chains The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf and Krispy Kreme have each signed new master franchise deals in the country to ramp up outlet growth.
Domestic operators are also seeking rapid outlet growth. Specialty coffee chains Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters, Third Wave Coffee and abCoffee, as well as start-ups Tan Coffee, Fast Coffee, Chelvies Coffee and First Coffee, have all raised investment within the last two years to accelerate expansion and tap into rising coffee consumption in the world’s most populous country.
