Restro review: Concu (European Confectionery)

Thepatisserie, housed in a bungalow, works mostly as a takeway at present, althoughmunching your desserts is encouraged on premises too. So, there are a fewsmartly designed chairs on the portico, and a bright green couch for slouchingindoors near the takeaway counter, while you wait for your order. The entrancedoor, interestingly, is made of recycled wood from packing crates!There is no conventional menu here, as flavours change with seasons and the chef’s creativity. But at any time, you can expect a range of cupcakes (`50) in flavours like Green Apple-Cinnamon, Strawberry, Chocolate (delish), Vanilla with Choco-Orange Fudge, Strawberry Cheesecake, Red Velvet (`60), éclairs (chocolate, raspberry, pear `80), macaroons (flavours change every week and can range from strawberry, chocolate, red wine cinnamon, coffee, raspberry, bubblegum, green apple, kiwi, to green tea, Bailey’s Cream and Milk Chocolate Passion Fruit, cola and rum, etc at `360/`700 for a box of 6/12, `60), brownies (Choco-Cherry, Choco-Walnut, Choco-Hazelnut and Peanut Butter, `90), Chocolate Whoopie Pies (`80) and chocolate sandwich cakes (sour cherry, raspberry, peach, `80). There are other cold desserts like tiramisu (delectable with the coffee flavour intact), trifle pudding, mascarpone cream with strawberry-red wine jelly & mango (`100 each). What stands outin the range is certainly their macaroons, especially with their perfecttexture, a crisp crust (but not hard, as Sahil explains) and a soft, lusciousfilling, try Strawberry Macaroon to know what I’m talking about. Theéclairs are also heavenly light and creamy, without being too sweet.“We don’t use the usual icing sugar, artificial syrups andsweeteners stuff. I like to use seasonal and fresh local ingredients, as much aspossible,” elaborates Sahil, citing an example of how a customer asked himto try using the organic mangoes from his orchard, in his desserts and heobliged! Cakes (on order only) cost `1400 per kg for fruitcombinations, most popular being the Ispahan (the classic Pierre Hermécombination of raspberries, rose and litchi), Green Apple-Pear-Cinnamon Cake andMango-Strawberry, `1500 for chocolate ones (Choco-Coffee-Hazelnut,Choco-Raspberry and Choco Strawberry). Theme cakes or bespoke celebration cakescost `2000 per kg upwards. Plot No 805/1, (Laneopp Steve Madden Show Room), Road no 36, Jubilee Hills,Hyderabad`200 10.30 am to 7 pm(Mondaysclosed)3.504.004.00 Macaroons(Strawberry, green apple), Tiramisu, Eclairs (Raspberry, Chocolate, Pear),Cupcakes (Chocolate, Red wine cinnamon), Chocolate sandwich cake with sourcherry, Ispahan cake