Café restaurants in India
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Open Hand
A cafe-cum-gift shop with fresh coffee and a range of cakes and snacks plus good-quality clothing and textiles at fixed prices.
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Big Chill
Khan Market has two film-poster-lined branches of BC, packed with chattering, well-manicured folk. The menu is a telephone directory of continental, Indian and other dishes. Have you ever seen so much cheesecake on a menu? Who’s to quibble when it’s this good?
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Indian Coffee House
The mythic Indian Coffee House was once a meeting place of freedom fighters, bohemians and revolutionaries. Today its crusty high ceilings and grimy walls ring with deafening student conversation but despite the dishwater coffee, it’s perversely fascinating. One block south of MG Rd, walk 20m east off College St and it’s upstairs on the left.
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Coffee.Com
Puducherry's cosmopolitan vibe is typified by this hip little internet hang-out. It's a meeting place where you can go online, read magazines, drink espresso coffee and there's a widescreen TV and a selection of DVDs. The café also serves up great baguettes, pasta, pastries and milkshakes.
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Gallops
This is a spiffy air-conditioned cafe with a camel leather–clad lounge area with big windows. There is real, and very good, espresso coffee, but at Rs100 a cappuccino, you would have to be keen. The menu also features pricey Indian and Chinese veg and nonveg, including tandoori specials.
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Sam’s Café
On Vivek Hotel’s ground floor and (more atmospheric) rooftop, Sam’s does cracking breakfasts and is a tranquil place to hang; usually packed with travellers. The pizzas are a good bet.
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Cafe Edelweiss
The Savage Garden folks run this itsy piece of Europe that appeals to homesick and discerning travellers. The cake tray, including cinnamon rolls, apple pies and chocolate cake, disappears quickly, and it’s tough to get a seat. The coffee (Rs30 to Rs40) is pretty good.
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Café Coffee Day
A fine place to loll and natter over endless cups of hot brew and brownies. The icy granitas will quench even the most savage summer thirst. There are citywide branches galore.
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Nagarjuna
Not a place to linger, this fast-moving, constantly packed-out joint dishes up spicy-as-hell Andhra specialities on banana leaves.
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Lotus Cafe
This funky little restaurant plucks out fabulous chicken dishes (predominantly Indian) and is ideal for meeting and greeting other travellers. There are board games available, a mezzanine to loll about on, and plenty of cool background sounds.
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Paparazzi
Spicy chicken kebabs (served on a flaming skewer) and decent caesar salads are served with sweeping city views at this supertrendy place. The around Rs200 set lunch is a good option.
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Indian Coffee House
It’s hard not to love Indian Coffee House, and Gwalior’s branch (handily located between train and bus stations) is no exception. It does all the usual breakfast favourites – real coffee, dosa (large savoury crepes), scrambled eggs – but also has a proper main-course menu, including a killer thali (all-you-can-eat meal; Rs. 70), in its separate first-floor area.
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Johnson’s Cafe
The restaurant at Johnson Hotel is one of the best in town for European food, with dishes like lamb and mint gravy, smoked chicken, and fig and apple crumble. The restaurant-bar is cosy, but on warm evenings or sunny afternoons, the garden terrace is the place to be.
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Honey & Spice
A tiny breakfast-and-lunch place that delivers homemade banana cakes, sandwiches, tofu steak and hearty concoctions served on a bed of brown rice. It is run by a friendly man who is a mine of local information. Oh, and the South Indian coffee is the real deal.
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Mocambo Café & Bar
Mocambo is a modern, convivial and convenient spot for breakfast, sandwiches, a main meal or a cold beer. The have a huge Indian and Western menu, but the breakfast egg-and-brain fry (with fries!) may only be for culinary adrenalin junkies.
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Kitchen K
Earth tones, clay pots and wrought-iron chairs make for a soothing ambience at this café serving Hyderabadi and Northern dishes. Cake Walk next door has tiramisu, apple pie and black forest cake, among other indulgences.
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Café Churchill
This tiny, packed place with booth seating does Western comfort food better than most, all served in fiercely-arctic AC. Grab a sandwich or a pasta and finish up with one of their 'happy endings.' Um, dessert that is.
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Café Coffee Day
This snack bar/coffee shop chain is ideal for homesick Westerners, with lots of healthy (and some decidedly less healthy) goodies they'll have struggled to find out in the sticks. Popular with local students.
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Indian Coffee House
This branch of the Indian Coffee House chain serves its yummy coffee and snacks in a unique, four-storey, spiralling tower lined inside by bench tables. Equal parts funhouse and Indian diner, it’s a must-see.
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Booklovers Retreat
- Leh, India
- Restaurants › Café
Comparatively sophisticated yet no pricier than the competition for a wide range of cuisines, including creditable Middle Eastern standards. There’s a two-case bookshop and an appealing covered roof terrace.
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Waterfalls
About a 2km walk west of Hampi Bazaar is this appealing operation tucked away beside shady banana plantations en route to a group of small waterfalls. The tasty Indian fare justifies the walk out of town.
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Maveli Café
Part of the Indian Coffee House chain, Maveli serves its standard tucker in a unique, narrow, four-storey spiralling tower lined by bench tables. Equal parts funhouse and Indian diner, it's a must-see.
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Coffea Arabica
Inviting, modern multicuisine eatery with a slight TGI Fridays feel offering various fast-food style serving stations, a little bookshop and a lounge area for coffee and cakes up in the wooden rafters.
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Sunset Cafe
Right on the eastern ghats, this cafe has sublime lake views, decent breakfasts and Indian and Italian cuisine. There are also bakery items, and the lakeside setting is picture perfect at sunset.
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