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₹Standing-only breakfast counter near Shankar Mutt known for idli vada and strong filter coffee in steel tumblers.
Order: Filter coffee · Idli vada
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Standing-only breakfast counter near Shankar Mutt known for idli vada and strong filter coffee in steel tumblers.
Order: Filter coffee · Idli vada
Gandhi Bazaar tiffin room open since 1943, famous for its ghee-rich masala dosa followed by filter coffee.
Order: Masala dosa · Filter coffee
Century-old Malleshwaram institution known for butter-roasted benne masala dosa and filter coffee.
Order: Benne masala dosa · Filter coffee · Mangalore bajji
Founded in 1924 and credited with the rava idli, served with coffee from beans roasted in-house.
Order: Rava idli · Filter coffee · Masala dosa
Family-run breakfast spot on Margosa Road known for soft idlis, unlimited chutney and filter coffee.
Order: Idli vada · Filter coffee · Kharabath
Filter coffee chain that began in 2009 as a 30 sq ft stall in Gandhi Bazaar and now has outlets across the city and airport.
Order: Filter coffee · Jaggery coffee · Mysore kaapi
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Hugely popular dosa chain whose thick, strong filter coffee is a big part of the draw.
Order: Filter coffee · Any dosa
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Old-school coffee house with turbaned waiters, filter coffee and classic snacks.
Order: Filter coffee · Mutton cutlet · Omelette
Retail outlet of a coffee works founded in 1965, grinding Chikmagalur and Bababudangiri beans for filter coffee.
Order: Filter coffee · Fresh-ground filter coffee powder
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An Irani cafe running since 1904, serving old-school coffee with bun maska.
Order: Filter coffee · Bun maska
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An Irani cafe running since 1978, famous for its cheese omelette with coffee or chai.
Order: Double cheese omelette · Bun maska · Irani chai
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A Deccan landmark Irani cafe since 1935, known for bun maska and chai.
Order: Bun maska · Irani chai
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Roasting and selling coffee since 1962, often called the first coffee roaster in North India.
Order: Espresso · Monsooned Malabar beans to take home
The first Indian Coffee House (1957), a rooftop adda spot on the second floor of Mohan Singh Place.
Order: Hot coffee · Masala dosa
Jaipur's first Indian Coffee House (1962), with 70s interiors and cheap filter coffee.
Order: Filter coffee · Cold coffee · Masala dosa
Workers' cooperative café serving the city since 1964, near Neelam Cinema.
Order: Filter coffee · Masala dosa
Legendary adda hall opposite Presidency University, a haunt of writers, students and filmmakers for generations.
Order: Hot coffee · Cold coffee with cream
Old cooperative café with colonial-era décor, filter coffee and masala dosa at low prices.
Order: Filter coffee · Masala dosa
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Tiny Arundale Street mess running since the 1940s, known for strong filter coffee with tiffin.
Order: Filter coffee · Idli · Vada
Mess near Kapaleeswarar Temple, founded in 1955, serving strong decoction kaapi.
Order: Filter coffee
Old Triplicane institution known for thick, aromatic kaapi alongside its sambar-soaked idlis.
Order: Filter coffee · Sambar idli
Vegetarian hotel operating since 1938, a traditional stop for hot, strong filter coffee.
Order: Filter coffee
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Old worker co-operative coffee house near the boat jetty, known for cheap filter coffee and masala dosa.
Order: Filter coffee · Masala dosa
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Fort Kochi cafe and gallery since 1997, long a stop for strong coffee in a leafy courtyard.
Order: House coffee · Chocolate cake
Long-running vegetarian tiffin room near Devaraja Market known for strong, cheap filter coffee.
Order: Filter coffee · Rava dosa
Two-storey flagship with an in-house roastery, a Modbar manual-brew bar and an SCA training academy upstairs.
Order: Manual brew at the Modbar (V60, AeroPress or Chemex) · Biscoff Snowball · Crispy butter croissant
Single-origin Indian estate coffees from one of the country's best known specialty roasters.
Order: Pour-over · AeroPress · Cold brew
Bengaluru-born specialty chain with reliable espresso and cold brew and plenty of work-friendly outlets.
Order: Vietnamese Shakerato · Cold brew · Flat white
Hyderabad roaster's first Bengaluru house, opened September 2026, serving specialty coffees sourced almost entirely from Chikmagalur.
Order: Signature Cranberry Coffee · Brownie Blend Cold Coffee · Manual brew of the day
9,000 sq ft flagship with a live roastery and coffee academy, known for experimental brews using beans from its own Coorg estate.
Order: Clarified Cappuccino · Spresso Citron · Ol' Smoky cold-smoked coffee
Subko's Bengaluru flagship in a restored 70-year-old home with red oxide floors, serving its own roasts and bakes.
Order: South Indian filter coffee · Croissant · Banoffee Flat White
Vegetarian cafe, specialty roastery and eggless bakery with a calm, sandstone-clad brew bar.
Order: Vietnamese espresso · Single-origin pour-over
Showcase for small independent Indian roasters, with a rotating coffee discovery menu brewed on a Hario Switch.
Order: Coffee discovery flight (three coffees) · Minty Ale
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Work-friendly cafe that roasts its own beans and bakes its own sourdough, with meeting pods and a conference room.
Order: Cereal Latte · Pour-over of the day
Concept cafe from a Kushalnagar roaster, pairing manual and siphon brews with French-style pastries.
Order: Siphon coffee · Flavoured cold brew · Sourdough sandwich
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Experience centre and cafe run by a barista champion, brewing its own Baarbara Estate beans by syphon, Chemex and more.
Order: Syphon brew · Pour-over · Cold brew
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Cosy micro roastery cafe with coffees from Indian and overseas estates, plus board games and a book wall.
Order: Filter coffee · Salted caramel iced latte
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Small cafe roasting single-estate Karnataka arabica with techniques learned from German roasters.
Order: Pour-over of the day · Cappuccino
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Cafe arm of a seventh-generation Chikkamagaluru estate that dries and roasts its coffee on the farm.
Order: Filter coffee · Espresso-based drink of choice
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Long-running European-style espresso bar on Church Street with a busy, central location.
Order: Espresso · Mocha Shakerato · Cinnamon roll
Restored bungalow with a Kerala-style courtyard and rotating art on the walls.
Order: Iced coffee · Cappuccino · Tuna melt sandwich
Specialty roaster near Ulsoor Lake working only with Indian origins, from Chikmagalur and Coorg to Araku and the northeast.
Order: Spanish latte · Croissant
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Small cafe and experience centre for coffee roasted by world roasting champions, with single origins and blends.
Order: Chemex brew · Pistachio croissant · Tiramisu
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Tiny neighbourhood specialty cafe known for its Spanish latte and cold brews.
Order: Spanish latte · Cold brew · Almond croissant
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Very small roastery cafe focused on manual brews of its own coffee.
Order: Manual brew · Almond croissant · Cold coffee
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Pocket-sized roaster cafe with a short menu of espresso drinks and desserts.
Order: Spanish latte · Matcha affogato · Tiramisu
Mysuru-born filter coffee brand with a cafe in the Jayanagar 4th Block BDA complex.
Order: Filter coffee · Carrot cake · Vada pav
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HSR cafe with a range of coffee coolers, including a millet-based mocha.
Order: Millet Mocha Chill · Tiramisu Frappe · Cafe mocha
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Subko's 9,000 sq ft multi-level space with communal tables, serving its own roasts and bakes.
Order: Iced latte · Aam French Toast · Puff
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Work-from-cafe with a meeting room and podcast studio, serving Chikmagalur coffee.
Order: Spiced Orange Cold Brew · Fig and goat's cheese toast · Berliners
Small Coorg coffee and chocolate store with a cafe counter and low prices.
Order: Monsoon Malabar · Carrot cake
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100% arabica cafe on 80 Feet Road with a big community table, bookshelf and bean display.
Order: Affogato · Spanish latte · Banana cake
Converted home serving Vietnamese coffee from Vietnamese beans, brewed at the table in a phin.
Order: Vietnamese egg coffee · Vietnamese espresso · Banh mi
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Bali-inspired two-level cafe from roaster Coffee Mechanics, pouring its single-estate coffees.
Order: Cauvery Peak single estate · Cortado · Litchi Coconut Coffee
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Subko's flagship in a restored Bandra bungalow, pairing its own Indian micro-lot coffee with an in-house bakehouse.
Order: Cold brew tonic · Filter kaapi soft serve · Cruffin
Subko's roastery and craft space in a Byculla industrial compound, with house blends and single origins brewed on site.
Order: Pour-over of the day · Vanilla cold brew with tonic
Live roasting on a Probat and a dedicated siphon bar in Chuim Village.
Order: Siphon coffee · South Bombay Cold Coffee · Affogato
An electric roaster and manual brew studio in a slow, wood-heavy space designed by DR&W.
Order: Pour-over of the day
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Araku's flagship cafe in an 1897 Colaba building, pouring its own Araku Valley coffee off a Modbar.
Order: Nitro brew · Cafe L'Orange · Dark & Stormy
Farm-to-cup cafe in Mulla House serving organic coffee from the Mariwala family's Kodaikanal estate.
Order: Cold brew on tap · Filter coffee
A roaster-run noshery with a slow bar focused on single-origin Indian pour-overs.
Order: Pour-over of the day
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A tiny owner-run espresso counter on Chapel Road built around a San Remo machine.
Order: Espresso · Coffee tasting combo
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A long-running, book-lined Fort cafe known for its coffee and bakes.
Order: Filter coffee · Lemon iced coffee · Banana bread
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A hidden-lane Bandra cafe mixing specialty coffee with vegan and refined-sugar-free bakes.
Order: Americano · Coconut cold brew · Matcha latte
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India's largest specialty roaster, with many Mumbai cafes pouring its single-estate Indian coffees.
Order: Pour-over of the day · Iced coconut cold brew
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Roasts 100% Indian arabica into single origins at its Godrej One flagship.
Order: Spiced iced latte · Flat white
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Roasts in the same room it serves in, so you see green bean to cup on Lane 6.
Order: Sea salt latte · Pour-over of the day
A Lane 5 roastery with a long brew menu, auction lots and BrewLabs sessions.
Order: Kopi Khop · Dirty Koregaon · Vietnamese phin
A brew-method-heavy cafe sourcing from South Indian estates, with Origami and Kalita pour-overs.
Order: Origami pour-over · Kalita pour-over · Egg akuri with salli
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A coffee-first cafe near Apte Road known for creative cold drinks.
Order: Cascara cold brew lemonade · Cacao iced latte
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A late-opening coffee bar on Law College Road.
Order: Iced Vietnamese · Iced mocha
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Runs a dedicated brew bar under the trees, with Aeropress and pour-over made to order.
Order: Aeropress · Pour-over of the day
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The national specialty roaster's Pune cafe, pouring single-estate Indian coffees.
Order: Pour-over of the day · Cortado · Spanish latte
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An all-day roastery cafe in Assagao since 2018, sourcing from Indian estates.
Order: Pour-over of the day
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Fontainhas cafe known for Indian coffees, organic teas and coffee cocktails in the evening.
Order: Pour-over of the day · Coffee cocktail
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Anjuna's coffee-serious stop on the St. Michael's Vaddo stretch.
Order: Single-origin pour-over · Cold brew · Flat white
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Terrace cafe doing pour-overs and single-origin espresso alongside a brunch menu.
Order: Cinnamon latte · Cold brew · Pour-over of the day
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A third-wave cafe with a slow bar for V60 and Aeropress brews.
Order: V60 pour-over · Aeropress · Hazelnut mocha
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A laid-back Prahlad Nagar cafe serving coffee from locally roasted beans.
Order: Espresso
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A two-level cafe near IIM focused on freshly ground, carefully sourced coffee.
Order: Espresso
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A cafe inside an art and design gallery, known for its house cold coffee.
Order: TPC cold coffee
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Café with an on-site roastery in the Champa Gali creative lane near Saket metro.
Order: Pour-over of the day · Cappuccino
Subko's first Delhi café, in a heritage building in New Khanna Market, with Indian microlots and an in-house bakehouse.
Order: Caco-Phony · Pour-over of the day
Small-batch roaster café on a third floor in Hauz Khas Market, with a choice of beans and brew methods.
Order: Spanish latte · Piccolo latte · Coffee tonic
Experiential roastery and lab known for workshops, tastings and a four-course coffee omakase.
Order: Coffee omakase · Pour-over of the day
Tiny coffee bar and gallery space serving strong pour-overs from its in-house Kumkum blend.
Order: Pour-over (Kumkum blend) · Dirty coffee
Delhi roaster with a revamped Khan Market AM to PM bar mixing pour-overs by day and coffee cocktails at night.
Order: Pour over · Espresso tonic · Australian mocha
Multi-roaster café pouring beans from Indian artisan roasters, with vinyl on the decks.
Order: Pour-over · Mont Blanc cold brew with orange foam
Minimalist pour-over spot that stays open until 4 AM.
Order: Pour-over · Iced latte
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Specialty café and patisserie with cave-style seating, praised for its milk coffees and desserts.
Order: Cappuccino · Flat white
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Roaster and bean-to-bar chocolate maker with a retail café on Golf Course Road.
Order: Salted caramel latte · Sea salt mocha
Industrial micro-roastery with an open roaster and counter seating.
Order: Iced cortado · Coffee tonic · V60
Bungalow-style café with a courtyard, brewing Indian estate coffees like Mandalkhan and Monsoon Malabar.
Order: AeroPress coffee · Hot cascara
Jaipur's third-wave pioneer since 2014, roasting on site with single origins from India and Africa.
Order: Flat white · Vietnamese cold brew
Small-batch roaster of single-origin Indian arabica with an industrial-chic café.
Order: Vietnamese cold brew · Pour-over
Specialty roaster with three Jaipur cafés, noted for one of the city's few proper cortados.
Order: Cortado · Espresso
Coffee bar on the lawns of Narain Niwas Palace, known for barrel-aged and mocktail-style brews.
Order: Wit Brew (whiskey barrel cold brew) · Moonstruck flat white
Jaipur outpost of the Hyderabad-born roaster, serving pour-overs and cold brews from Indian estates.
Order: Cold brew · Single-origin filter coffee
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Late-opening café with Burmese touches, espresso drinks and pour-overs.
Order: Vietnamese coffee · Pour-over
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The national roaster's Madhya Marg café, selling its single origins and blends by the bag.
Order: Pour-over of the day · Cold brew
Tricity roaster café that roasts single origins from Coorg, Chikmagalur and Araku in-house.
Order: Pour-over of the day
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Colonial-style café inside the South India Club with a garden, known for hand-poured brews.
Order: Pour-over · Nitro cold brew
Large roastery café and bakery in a restored heritage building on Ray Street.
Order: Citrus leaf coffee
Blue Tokai café set inside a bookstore on Park Street.
Order: Vietnamese iced coffee · Cappuccino
Local roaster with a small café pouring a long menu of espresso and pour-over drinks.
Order: Pour-over · Espresso
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Indore's first specialty roastery, with a Goa-inspired café and barrel-aged cold brews.
Order: Tiramisu cortado · Rose cardamom latte · Barrel-aged cold brew
Specialty coffee shop that doubles as an art café and coworking space.
Order: Latte · Pour-over of the day
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One of Indore's oldest cafés, a French bistro-style flagship credited with starting the city's café culture.
Order: Cappuccino
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Coffee bar in the Savera Hotel gardens that bills itself as Chennai's first coffee microbrewery, with eight brewing methods.
Order: Siphon coffee · Cafe latte
Opened in 2020 as one of Chennai's first specialty roastery cafes, with a Slayer espresso machine.
Order: Pour-over coffee · Cold shaken filter coffee · Salted caramel affogato
Small specialty coffee house with a rotating single-origin menu, pour-over and batch brew, using Chikmagalur Arabica.
Order: Clever dripper black coffee · Pour-over of the day
Neighbourhood cafe run by a Specialty Coffee Academy of India trained owner, with private work pods.
Order: Marocchino · Tiramisu iced latte · Affogato
Old-house style cafe with wooden swings and a full espresso and pour-over menu, now with several outlets.
Order: Spanish latte · Pour-over coffee · Cortado
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Relaunched coffee bar running Sanremo machines, with live music nights.
Order: Turkish latte · Mocha
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Opened in 2017 with the city's first in-house roasting unit, serving single-estate Indian coffee.
Order: Cranberry coffee · Cold brew · Affogato
A 60,000 sq ft coffee and pastry venue built around a Loring S70 Peregrine roaster.
Order: Cold brew platter
One of Hyderabad's first third-wave cafes, known for espresso tonic and orange coffee.
Order: Espresso tonic · Valencia orange coffee · Vanilla cream cold brew
No-frills coffeehouse pouring Indian single-origin coffees from various estates.
Order: Mazagran · Long black · Vietnamese coffee
Micro-roastery cafe sourcing from Araku smallholder farms, roasted in small batches.
Order: Black Coconut · Black Orange
Cafe under old mango trees serving globally sourced beans and inventive coffee drinks.
Order: Nitro brew · Cheese coffee · Vietnamese iced coffee
Coffee-first cafe serving single-origin beans from its own 148-acre estate in Madikeri, Coorg.
Order: Gondhoraj cold brew
Hyderabad outpost of the Mumbai roaster, pairing specialty coffee with house cacao and bakes.
Order: Cacao float · Espresso
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Lakefront cafe on Durgam Cheruvu serving only robusta from its own 400-acre Sakleshpur estate.
Order: Vietnamese iced coffee · Banana bread latte
Neighbourhood cafe known for playful serves like coffee in a reusable tote-bag glass.
Order: Tote bag coffee · Brownie blend coffee
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Minimal Princess Street cafe praised for barista-made espresso drinks and pastries.
Order: Cappuccino · Strawberry cheesecake
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Popular coffee-led cafe with a wide drinks list and indoor and outdoor seating.
Order: Lotus Biscoff latte
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Flagship of a filter-coffee brand, styled on South Indian homes and old canteen culture.
Order: Filter coffee
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Small Gokulam cafe with skilled baristas and Chikmagalur beans, often cited as the city's top specialty spot.
Order: Flat white · Espresso tonic
Roastery and coffee experience centre on the Vijayanagar Ring Road with indoor and outdoor seating.
Order: Espresso
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Highly rated cafe serving Mysore-style filter coffee alongside a continental menu.
Order: Filter coffee
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