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MAP
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( 4076000; Vanross Junction; mains ?80-250; 8am-10.30pm)
This smart restaurant at Magic Days
Hotel offers a terrific buffet for lunch and dinner, as well as à la carte Indian, Chinese and
Continental.
THE INDIAN COFFEE HOUSE STORY
The Indian Coffee House is a place stuck in time. Its India-wide branches feature old India prices and waiters
dressed in starched white with peacock-style headdresses. It was started by the Coffee Board in the early 1940s,
during British rule. In the 1950s the Board began to close down cafes across India, making employees redundant.
At this point, the communist leader Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar began to support the workers and foun-
ded with them the India Coffee Board Worker's Co-operative Society. The intention was to provide them with
better opportunities and promote the sale of coffee. The Coffee House has remained ever since, always atmo-
spheric, and always offering bargain snacks and drinks such as Indian filter coffee, rose milk and
idlis
. It's still
run by its employees, all of whom share ownership.
Shopping
ables, fish, live goats, fabric, clothes, spices and more bananas than you can poke a
hungry monkey at.
SMSM Institute
(
www.keralahandicrafts.in
; YMCA Rd; 9am-8pm Mon-Sat)
Kerala Government-run handicraft em-
porium with an Aladdin's cave of well-priced goodies.
HANDICRAFTS
Sankers Coffee & Tea
( 2330469; MG Rd; 9am-9pm Mon-Sat)
You'll smell the fresh coffee well before you reach
this dainty shop. It sells Nilgiri Export OP Leaf Tea (?520 per kilo) and a variety of cof-
fees and nuts.
FOOD & DRINK
Information
8.30am-9pm)
One of several good internet places
ABC Internet
(MG Rd, Capital Centre; per hr ?20;
in this small mall.
