Madras Day 2026: a 121-year-old bakery with a Gen Z heart

Established in 1905, The Crown Bakery at Bazaar Road in Mylapore still stays young thanks to suggestions coming in from Gen Zers in the family that runs the enterprise

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Madras Day 2026: a 121-year-old bakery with a Gen Z heart

Established in 1905, The Crown Bakery at Bazaar Road in Mylapore still stays young thanks to suggestions coming in from Gen Zers in the family that runs the enterprise

Updated – August 18, 2026 11:26 am IST

Lakshmy Harikrishnan

The Crown Bakery at Bazaar Road in Mylapore.

At Bazaar Road in Mylapore, lined with a diversity of shops, “hoary-haired” enterprises show up with impressive frequency. Aged 121, The Crown Bakery wins the demographic tug-of-war among these old enterprises hands down.

Established in 1905 by Kanthasamy Mudaliar, the reins of the shop would be passed on to the current family, the descendants of M. Srinivasan, an admirable torch-bearer of this patiently baked legacy, for several decades.

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