Mumbai · ice cream
Natural Ice Cream
The clearest churned counterpoint built on a genuinely distinctive production idea — real fruit pieces rather than flavouring; whether a 135-outlet chain with centralised manufacturing still counts as 'serious, distinctive ice-cream culture' in this project's sense is the open question.
What to order
Coconut, badam pista (almond-pistachio), anjir (fig) and sitaphal (custard apple) in season, per the flavours named in the Scroll.in excerpt
What we know
- Founding idea stated in the founder's own words on the company site: real fruit pieces in the ice cream rather than fruit flavouring, starting from a single Juhu outlet in 1984
- Company's own contact page names a specific manufacturing address, Kandivali Industrial Estate, Charkop, Mumbai — production is centralised there, not at individual retail counters
- Grew from one shop with 12 flavours to over 135 outlets nationally, per the company's own history page — a scale that is itself a signal, for or against inclusion depending on editorial judgement
- A book excerpt by author Mira Manek, published in Scroll.in, names Natural as her 'go-to ice cream shop' on Marine Drive and specifically recalls her grandfather's preferred flavours (coconut, badam pista, anjir, sitaphal) — a genuine, named personal endorsement in independent press, though from a memoirist rather than a food critic
- Status
- open
- Address
- Plot 49, N S Rd Number 13, Chand Society, JVPD Scheme, Juhu, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400049
- Maker
- Raghunandan Kamath, founder (1984; referred to as 'Late' on the company's own site, indicating he has since died)
- Opened
- 1984
- Website
- naturalicecreams.in/our-legacy/
- Last checked
- 2026-08-22
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