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Katha Crafthouse is a hybrid café-bar space by Aditya Jaiswa that extends the community-driven approach of Katha Coffee and Bakehouse into an all-day social and cultural venue. Built around the transition from daytime coffee culture to evening cocktails and music, the space combines specialty coffee, rotating cocktails, food, vinyl-led programming, pop-ups, and events across multiple zones, while its launch event AM/PM presents the venue as a full-day experience moving from morning run clubs and brewing sessions to late-night DJ sets and bar culture.
It’s 5 PM. You’ve already spent enough money at cafés pretending to work. You don’t wanna go home just yet, but the bars still feel too early, and too loud. What do you do? Hyderabad has plenty of both, but very few spaces that understand the strange in-between stretch where the laptop should probably close, the lights should drop a little, and the day gives way for a chill evening before you turn up at night. That gap is what Katha Crafthouse wants to occupy.
A speciality coffee brand founded by Aditya Jaiswa, Katha started in Hyderabad in 2023. In just a few years, the brand has expanded across eight outlets under Katha Coffee and Bakehouse, building a following through recurring formats that turned cafés into social spaces with vinyl DJ sets, weekend pop-ups, cultural programming, and collaborative events. They wanted routine, familiarity, music, community, and some sense that the place they were spending hours inside had a point of view.
Crafthouse is the most ambitious version of that idea so far. Instead of splitting café culture and bar culture into separate identities, the space treats them like part of the same day. The building is divided into four zones that shift depending on what time you walk in. There’s the Dripstation at the entrance for quick espresso runs, the main floor where coffee and cocktails operate from the same counter and ingredient cabinet, the open-air Yard built for sundowners, cookouts and DJ-led evenings, and an upcoming Green Room designed as a smaller speakeasy-style cocktail space focused on sound and more curated nights. The same room slowly evolves over the course of the day, and the same staff member thinking about your morning coffee is probably also thinking about the cocktail menu later that night.
Their signature coffee, Passion with Coffee, combines espresso, Earl Grey and passionfruit into a clarified drink that feels like a more dressed-up cousin of one of Katha’s earlier bestsellers. The Black Forest Martini works similarly, pulling from a very specific memory. "The most interesting thing you can do in this country right now is take something everyone remembers and make it slightly weird. Not unrecognisable — just off. A black forest martini isn't fusion. It's a birthday party you went to in 2002, served cold,” shares Aditya. From the seven-flavour seasonal and rotating cocktail-on-tap programme to the Bar chakna and coffee-shop bakery, the menu speaks to whatever the kitchen is curious about that month. “The plates aren't trying to introduce you to anything; they're trying to remind you of something,” the place notes.
That idea of a place changing shape through the day is previewed through AM/PM, the launch event that introduces Crafthouse to the city, designed as a single 17-hour arc running from 7 AM to midnight inside the Jubilee Hills venue. It’s a choreographed full-day experience built to show how the venue is meant to function from sunrise to after-hours.
The morning starts slow and sensory, with run clubs, brewing tables, fitness pop-ups, açai soft-serve stalls, and vinyl sets. By afternoon, the space opens into artist stalls, live screen-printing, summer cocktail counters and a vinyl bazaar. Then the evening pushes fully into high-energy territory with sundowner sessions, headline DJs and packed-out bar service. By bringing together the morning coffee that turns into brunch bites, late-evening music gatherings and cocktail hour at night at one spot, Crafthouse is trying to completely dismantle the question: ‘How long is it okay to stay at a coffee shop?’
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