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(38/83 Commissioner's Rd; mains ?100-250; noon-3.45pm & 6.30-9.45pm) Shinkow's is an Ooty institu-
tion and the simple menu of chicken, pork, beef, fish, noodles and rice dishes is reliably
good and quick to arrive at your table.

CAFE $

Willy's Coffee Pub
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(KCR Arcade, Walsham Rd; dishes ?20-80; 10am-9.30pm) Climb the stairs and join international
students and local cool kids for board games, a small lending library and very reasonably
priced pizzas, fries, toasted sandwiches, cakes and cookies.

Café Coffee Day
(Garden Rd; coffee ?60-110;

CAFE $

) Reliably fine coffee, tea and cakes. There's another 9am-11pm;

) on Church Hill Rd.

branch (Church Hill Rd; 9am-11pm;

Self-Catering
Modern Stores MAP GOOGLE MAP (144 Garden Rd; 9.30am-8.30pm) is a mini-supermarket with all
kinds of Western foods from muesli to Seville orange marmalade, as well as Nilgiri-pro-
duced bread and cheese. The fair-trade and organic-oriented Green Shop MAP GOOGLE MAP
(Sargan Villa, off Club Rd; 9.30am-7pm Mon-Sat) has excellent wild honey, plus attractive crafts
and also a bee museum. Virtue Bakes

10.30am-8.30pm) sells ex- GOOGLE MAP (Garden Rd; MAP

cellent cakes, pastries and bread to take away.

Shopping
The main shopping street is Commercial Rd, where you'll find Kashmiri shops as well as
outlets for Keralan crafts and khadi (handspun cloth). Elsewhere, K Mahaveer Chand MAP
GOOGLE MAP (291 Main Bazaar Rd; 9.30am-8pm) has been selling particularly attractive Toda
tribal and silver jewellery for over 40 years, and Mohan's MAP GOOGLE MAP (Commissioner's Rd;
10am-8pm) has a curious assortment of antique telephones, radios and beer tankards as
well as warm clothes. Near the botanical gardens entrance, Tibetan refugees sell sweaters
and shawls, which you may appreciate on a chilly Ooty evening. Higginbothams MAP
GOOGLE MAP ( 2443736; Commercial Rd; 9am-1pm & 3.30-7.30pm Mon-Sat) has a good English-
language book selection (including Lonely Planet guides), and another branch (

2442546;

9am-1pm & 2-6pm Mon-Sat) up the hill. Commissioner's Rd;