Pardita Mascarenhas, founder of Break of Dawn, mid-sentence on a white chair at Gather, the Break of Dawn studio, with bookshelves and a brick screen behind her

our story

made by hand,
every morning.

An all-women team, every morning since June 2017. It started with one batch of almond milk, in Pardita’s words.

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The all-women Break of Dawn team in the Govandi East kitchen, in aprons and chef caps, with Pardita
The team, every morning in Govandi East, Mumbai.

in her words Chembur, Mumbai · June 2017

I graded diamonds before I made food. You learn one thing doing that: a stone is either clean or it isn’t, and no amount of talk about it changes the stone.

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I turned vegan in 2015, and the hard part was not giving up dairy. It was staying. Fresh, dairy-free food simply wasn’t accessible here, and what sat on the shelves was full of preservatives and stabilisers.

So in June 2017 I made one batch of almond milk in my own kitchen, for my own family. Almonds, water, a pinch of pink salt. Nothing else. I bottled it before the sun came up and left it cold on a few doorsteps. That was the first morning of Break of Dawn.

Pardita Mascarenhas
founder, since June 2017

still the same, every morning

from almond to your door.

  1. the night beforeWhole almonds soak overnight.
  2. first lightPressed by hand in our Govandi East kitchen, and bottled in glass the same morning.
  3. at your doorDelivered across Mumbai, Monday to Saturday. Order almond milk by 5pm and everything else by 2pm for the next morning.

What others say

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Vegan India Conference 2026

Voted India’s No. 1 Plant‑Based Cheese.

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“Definitely the creamiest and the best tasting freshly made almond milk in India!”Kuntal Joisher · Google

where to start.

Our three most-ordered almond milks. Any two deliver free.

  • A glass bottle of Break of Dawn natural almond milk, made fresh in Mumbai
    almond milk

    natural

    Clean, creamy & naturally delicious.

    ₹235 · 300 ml

  • A glass bottle of Break of Dawn dates almond milk, made fresh in Mumbai
    almond milk

    dates

    Lightly sweet with real dates. Naturally indulgent.

    ₹260 · 300 ml

  • A glass bottle of Break of Dawn vanilla almond milk, made fresh in Mumbai
    almond milk

    vanilla

    Smooth, mellow & classic.

    ₹290 · 300 ml

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