No. 35 in the world · November 2026
Café Madras
No. 35The one cup to order
Filter kaapi, poured between steel tumbler and dabarah to froth it, with a plate of idli
Matunga's South Indian institution since 1940: the coffee is decoction and boiled milk, sweet and frothy, and it costs almost nothing.
Make it at home
Filter kaapi, the South Indian way, poured until it froths
20 min (15 to drip) · 2 tumblers. The breakfast coffee of Mumbai's Udupi cafés like Café Madras and every Tamil and Karnataka home: chicory-coffee decoction, dripped slowly through a steel filter, mixed with boiled milk and poured back and forth until it's foamy.
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