Common Time has opened its second outlet in Delhi at Basant Lok Market, Vasant Vihar. The space, designed in collaboration with Sanchit Arora of RENESA Architecture Studio, reflects the brand’s minimalist aesthetic—featuring warm materials, uncluttered surfaces, and an espresso bar as the focal point.
Founded by Jaivardhan and Sagar Bhatia of the Bhatia Hospitality Group, Common Time was conceived as a contemporary café shaped by travel, design, and the rituals of everyday coffee culture. If the Lodhi Colony café introduced the brand’s global sensibility to Delhi’s creative core, the Basant Lok outpost feels like a natural next step, more embedded, more routine-driven, and closer to the quiet cadence of a residential neighbourhood.
Vasant Vihar, with its mix of embassies, long-time residents, and globally exposed patrons, represents the kind of setting the founders always imagined for Common Time. It is a place where expectations are higher, tastes are more considered, and spaces are chosen not for spectacle, but for how they fit into daily life.
The new café carries forward the brand’s signature design language, clean, tactile, and intentionally restrained and carefully designed in collaboration with Sanchit Arora of RENESA Architecture Studio. Materials are warm, surfaces are uncluttered, and the espresso bar remains the centrepiece, allowing the choreography of coffee-making to become part of the atmosphere. There is an ease to the space: one that encourages lingering, quiet conversations, or simply a moment to pause between the day’s demands.
The coffee program is intentionally focused on doing the basics exceptionally well while offering subtle reinterpretations of classics. Every drink is made in-house, without syrups, with signatures like the iced brown butter latte, Earl Grey flat white, and the Competition Latte alongside rotating Indian and international single-origin pour-overs.
The food and bakes mirror this restraint: refined, coffee-friendly sandwiches such as pesto caprese focaccia and smoked chicken chipotle ciabatta, alongside viennoiserie and desserts from garlic cheese croissants to layered carrot cake, designed to become easy, repeat rituals.
As with its first outpost, Common Time at Basant Lok extends into retail, with a curated section of merchandise, fragrances, and coffee tools. The idea is not just to serve coffee, but to build a lifestyle language around it, one that travels with guests beyond the café walls.
Speaking about the new opening, co-founder Jaivardhan Bhatia shares,“Common Time was always imagined as a neighbourhood ritual rather than a destination. Vasant Vihar represents the kind of community where people value consistency, craft, and familiarity. With this café, we’re continuing to build spaces that become part of everyday life, places you return to without needing a reason.”
As Common Time continues to expand, the focus remains on busy urban pockets where people are constantly moving, spaces that can offer a moment of stillness within the flow. Future plans include domestic growth into Mumbai and Bengaluru, followed by international openings in Sri Lanka and Nepal later this year.
Common Time at Basant Lok Market is now open, welcoming guests into a new rhythm of coffee, culture, and connection in Vasant Vihar.
Common Time, Basant Lok Market, Vasant Vihar, opens on 20 February 2026.
