Idli
5,50 €Two steamed cakes of fermented rice and urad dal.
A South Indian menu drawn like the kolam at a Tamil threshold: white rice-flour lines looping round a grid of dots on red laterite over the name, a kolam border on a laterite step between the courses, and the thali in a kaavi frame.
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Tiffin from seven in the morning, meals on the banana leaf at noon, and filter coffee until we close.
Steamed and griddled, all vegan, with sambar and three chutneys.
Two steamed cakes of fermented rice and urad dal.
Two crisp urad dal rings with black pepper and curry leaf.
Dumplings of dosa batter with onion and green chilli.
Roasted semolina with mustard seed, ginger and curry leaf.
Medu vada soaked in hot sambar with shallots and coriander.
Steamed rice noodle nests with sweetened coconut milk.
Fermented rice and lentil batter, griddled to order on cast iron.
Thin and crisp, with sambar, coconut and tomato chutney.
Filled with potato, onion, turmeric and mustard seed.
Rolled into a tall cone and roasted golden in ghee.
Spread with red chilli and garlic chutney, potato inside.
Spicy
Lacy semolina and rice crêpe with onion, cumin and pepper.
Dusted with roasted lentil and chilli powder and sesame oil.
Spicy
A thick rice pancake topped with onion, tomato and chilli.
On a banana leaf from noon until three, refilled until you stop.
Rice, sambar, rasam, kootu, two poriyal, curd and payasam.
Vegetarian
The full leaf with Chettinad pepper chicken and an egg masala.
Spicy
The full leaf with seer fish in tamarind curry and a fried fillet.
Rice, sambar, rasam, one poriyal, curd and a sweet.
Vegetarian
Black pepper, star anise and kalpasi, as cooked in Karaikudi.
Chicken on the bone in roasted pepper, fennel and coconut.
Spicy
Lamb fried dry with shallots, curry leaf and black pepper.
Spicy
Kingfish steaks rubbed with chilli and turmeric, pan fried.
Flaky parotta chopped on the griddle with egg, onion and salna.
Baby aubergines in sesame oil, tamarind and peanut gravy.
Vegan
Rice and yoghurt tempered with mustard seed, ginger and curry leaf.
Made in the morning, served warm or cool.
Semolina halwa with ghee, saffron, cashew and raisins.
Rice slow cooked in milk with cardamom and jaggery.
Gluten-Free
Two pieces of gram flour and ghee fudge, cut from the tray.
Our coffee is peaberry and chicory, ground every morning.
Chicory coffee from a brass filter, in a tumbler and davara.
Assam tea boiled with milk, ginger, cardamom and clove.
Spiced buttermilk with green chilli, ginger and curry leaf.
Cold milk with rose syrup and a few basil seeds.
Sarsaparilla root syrup with lime, soda and basil seeds.
Madurai's cold milk with almond gum, nannari and ice cream.
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