For the winter season, especially with the berries adding colour, the Cheesecake Nation has got strawberry and mixed berries on their menu, as seasonal fresh berry cheesecakes. They have raspberries, Blackberries, Blueberries and strawberries, all as luscious, sparkling as they add colour and a hint of sweetness to the tartness of the cheesecake.

An industrial engineer by profession, Salil has been fascinated about cheesemaking since his youth and always wanted to get into cheese making.

Salil and Tarul’s love for cheese also extends into creating masterpieces in cheesecakes, which Tarul started under the name The Cheesecake Nation.

Located bang on the busy karve road opposite Kahwa Cafe, The Cheesecake Nation has a humble takeaway or stand & eat kind of a set-up. But their exclusive cheesecake menu boasts of fresh varieties of more than 20 flavours including lemon, traditional baked Newyork style, pineapple, oreo, tiramisu, blueberry and what not!

“We started this venture as we both love cheesecakes, and when we started it was very tough to get a good cheesecake in Pune. A lot of the restaurants and cafes were serving frozen whipped cream as cheesecake. So since we were anyways making cream cheese and mascarpone of our own, we decided to make authentic cheesecake the way it should be with 100% cream cheese and no cheap substitute,” said Salil.

Tarul, Salil’s better half, has developed over 20 different flavours in cheesecakes and also different forms of cheesecakes like a cheesecake tart or cheesecake muffins.

 
Address: The Cheesecake Nation, The Yellow Slice, Kanchan Bhavan, 5 Shilavihar Colony, Karve road, Opp Hotel Yatri, Kothrud, Pune.
Contact: 9850881264,9422002553 (Monday closed)
 

Contributed by Prachi Bari