Hyderabad’s beverage ritual has a new protagonist, and it’s not coffee or chai, it’s chocolate. Inside the sculptural, tablet-inspired Manam Chocolate Karkhana in Banjara Hills, counter is quietly rewriting the city’s drink map: the Manam Chocolate Beverage Bar, where Indian craft chocolate is shaken, stirred, melted, and poured into 24+ customisable cups.
Have you ever imagined you can drink your chocolate your way? Here at Manam, you can craft your own cup of chocolate in your own personalised form and make it your to go as well as your usual cup of chocolate. Picture this: you’re standing at an L-shaped terracotta-clad bar, the air warm with cocoa, a ceiling mural of West Godavari’s cacao harvest above you. A barista asks: hot or cold? Which couverture? Which milk? You point to 70% dark, oat milk, extra chill, and in under 10 minutes, a layered, aroma-forward chocolate drink lands in your hand. It’s theatre, yes, but it’s also everyday: a chocolate you can sip at the bar, stroll with through the retail aisle, or grab-and-go while the city buzzes outside.
The menu is built for discovery. Hot signatures range from the Hazelnut Praline Latte (espresso meets caramelised white chocolate and house-made hazelnut butter) to the Chilli Milk Chocolate, where Guntur chilli wakes up smooth milk chocolate. Cold line-ups play with texture and terroir: the Iced Tiramisu Latte finishes with mascarpone cream; the Date Iced Dark Chocolate leans on slow-cooked date compote for natural sweetness. 
Shakes go indulgent, Chocolate Chunk Cookie blends brown butter cookies with molten chocolate; Raspberry Brownie Fudge shakes in tart fruit and fudgy crumb. Plant-based mylks keep it creamy without dairy: Blueberry Oat Iced Chocolate folds dark chocolate into oat; Maple Pecan Hot Chocolate crunches with pecan praline.
What makes this feel different is the “pour-over” philosophy. Ruby Islam, Head of Product & Innovation at Manam, positions cacao water and cocoa-forward brews as a gentler alternative to coffee’s spike-and-crash, chocolate that sustains, not startles. The bar’s 14 couvertures (from white to 100% dark) let you tune sweetness, intensity, and origin notes, West Godavari and Kerala cacao, while baristas guide you through pairings with house-made pastries, viennoiserie, and savouries.
Come for the spectacle; leave with a new ritual: chocolate, not just as a bar, but as your daily cup. Manam’s Beverage Bar is Hyderabad’s most playful chocolate moment, sip, stroll, and savour craft cacao in every form, and let your daily cup be chocolate.
By Vaishnavi DR
