Qandi Bakery · Anantnag · Since 1968
The Traditional Taste of Kashmir
We are a kandur (tandoor baker) family in Anantnag. The oven is lit before dawn, the czot (morning bread) comes up with first light, and wedding tins leave the shop counted and warm.
From the tandoor
What we are known for
Kulcha
Short, crumbly rounds topped with sesame. The bread that noon chai waits for.
Bakarkhani
Flaky and ghee-layered, baked against the tandoor wall until the edges catch.
Roth
Dense and sweet with saffron and poppy seed. The bread of good news.
Sealed at the counter
Tandoor cookies, packed to travel
Baked against the same fire as the breads, sealed in the wrapper while the trays are still warm, and carried to hostels, offices and the far end of the valley. Keep scrolling — the wrapper opens itself.
See the counter list
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The year the first tandoor was lit
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Years, same fire, same recipes
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Generations at the oven
Baked the old way
Qandi began as a neighbourhood kandur in Anantnag, and the neighbourhood kept coming back. Three generations on, we still knead by hand and still fire the tandoor before light. The recipes have not moved; only the queue has grown.
Know your bread
The breads
Czot
چوٹThe morning bread. Round and ridged, pulled from the tandoor at first light and eaten warm, torn by hand, with noon chai.
Lavasa
لواسThin, soft, blistered. It wraps, folds and mops — the everyday bread of the valley table.
Kulcha
کلچہA palm-sized shortcrust round with a crimped rim, poppy seeds, and a single almond at its heart. Made for dunking.
Bakarkhani
بقرخانیFlaky and layered, brushed with ghee, dusted with sesame. The one a guest is offered first.
Sheermal
شیرمالMilk and saffron, pricked in neat rows, faintly sweet. It colours the table gold.
Roth
روٹھDense, sweet, saffron-scented. Baked for good news — births, engagements, homecomings — and carried in tins.
Simple by design
How pre-ordering works
Tell us your date
A call, a message, or the form.
We bake it fresh to order
Your tins go into the same morning fire.
Collect it warm from the shop
Counted, packed, ready when you are.
For weddings and functions
Ordering for a wedding?
Tell us the date and we bake to it. Roth by the tin, kulcha and bakarkhani by the hundred — counted, packed and ready before your guests arrive. We plan the tandoor around your morning, so nothing arrives late and nothing arrives stale.
Weddings — tins by the hundred, counted twice.
Engagements — roth carried to the other house, still warm.
Eid mornings — the queue starts before the light does.
Welcoming a guest — bakarkhani on the tray before the kahwa is poured.
Come by
Visit us
- Address
- Janglat Mandi, Anantnag, Jammu & Kashmir 192101
- Hours
- 6 am – 9 pm, every day
- Phone
- +91 90184 44186
