Dough first.
Everything else after.

Basic Kneads is a bakery in Dhaka. We make bread, laminated pastry and gourmet sandwiches.

Butter, folded in.
Then folded again.

A croissant is dough and butter folded over each other until there are too many layers to count. The plain one on our menu is all-butter.

Two-tone croissants shaped and resting on a tray — Shaped, and waiting for the oven.

A pistachio pastry cut open in a gloved hand, pistachio cream running down its honeycomb layers — Cut open: the layers, and pistachio cream.

Gold leaf being placed on a striped croissant with tweezers — Gold leaf goes on last, with tweezers.

One dough.
Four ways out.

Dipped in white or milk chocolate, or filled with almond or pistachio frangipane. Roll the same dough with sugar and it becomes kouign amann, filled with dark chocolate ganache, almond cream or pistachio cream.

Pistachio Frangipane kouign amann.

৳479

Then we
fill it.

The sandwiches start with the bread: focaccia, brioche, baguette, toasted slices. The Roman Holiday puts burrata, pistachio butter and hot honey inside toasted focaccia.

Swirled pistachio cream with chopped pistachio

Roman Holiday. Focaccia, pistachio, burrata and hot honey.

৳1,599

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Dough first.Everything else after.

Butter, folded in.Then folded again.

One dough.Four ways out.

Then wefill it.

Better eaten than read about.

Dough first.
Everything else after.

Butter, folded in.
Then folded again.

One dough.
Four ways out.

Then we
fill it.