Started with one bag of green beans and a home roaster.
Amber Root began in 2019 above a garage in Kalyani Nagar, roasting 2kg at a time on a machine built from spare parts. Three years and a lot of burnt batches later, we moved into the Koregaon Park space — but the rule hasn't changed: we still cup every new lot ourselves before it goes anywhere near a menu.
Today we work directly with three family-run farms in Chikmagalur and Coorg, paying above market rate for lots we'd actually want to drink. No importers, no unnamed "single-origin blends."