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eat · st. marks road · ₹₹ · bangalore
Koshy's
The 1940s St. Marks Road cafe where writers, journalists and the old guard order an omelet and sit for two hours.
why we keep going,
Order the chicken steak or the breakfast omelet, a coffee, a beer if it's after eleven. Then sit. The room does the rest.
Tables don't get rushed. Ramachandra Guha-style afternoons are the model; bring a book and you'll fit in.
Get the back room, not the AC section. The front bar is for waiting, the back is for staying.
local context
Opened in the early 1950s by P. Oommen Koshy, a former bank executive who began with a bakery supplying army loaves; the restaurant has hosted patrons including Jawaharlal Nehru, Queen Elizabeth II and Nikita Khrushchev.
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