1. Establishment in 1934

2. Quirks of the menus

3. Popular clientele

4. References

Establishment in 1934

Mysore café was established in the 1930s. Its founder A.Rama Nayak was then a class fourth drop out from the village of Akkar (now in Karnataka). Choosing a vantage spot near the King's circle railway station, he started making and selling idlis and dosas on plantain leaves. A few years later, he set up his first restaurant selling south Indian cuisine in Matunga. Subsequently, he set up another three restaurants in the same area of Matunga, a suburb that had a sizeable population of South Indians. These four restaurants (one for each of his sons) were named Udupi Shri Krishna (near Matunga station, now called Udupi Krishna Bhavan), Cafe Mysore (at Kings Circle), Udupi Cafe and now Idli House. Café Mysore is located at 461, Durlabh Nivas, Bhaudaji Road, Matunga while the remaining family run restaurants are all located close by in the Matunga region ^[2]

Quirks of the menus

In line with the ideas of their founder, the four restaurants operating under the banner of "Rama Nayak & Sons" try to avoid keeping aerated drinks in their menu. The menus continues to sport simple south Indian fare including idlis, dosas, rasam, pineapple sheera, and filter coffee. Café Mysore uses a large steam press idli maker that makes 60 idlis in just eight minutes.^[3] The restaurants still source their milk from an old trusted cowshed at Jogeshwari, and their vegetables and grain from old time suppliers.^[2] As per an article that was published in Mid-Day, the floor of the restaurant is mopped 50 times daily, 100 breakfast Parcels are packed off on each Sunday for home delivery, 30 Plates of Idlis are usually served for breakfast every day, the restaurant makes a profit of 10 per cent per dish, the most time consuming dish (the onion uthapa) takes 20 minutes for the restaurant here to make, they employed 7 waiters in each shift in 2011 with each waiter working 8 hours per day.^[3]

Popular clientele

The restaurant is popular with students of nineteen colleges that lie in the vicinity. The Raj Kapoor family used to frequent the restaurants when they lived close by in the 1950s and 60s and a letter from Raj Kapoor is still displayed at one of the restaurants.

In an interview with Rajdeep Sardesai in 2017, the Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani said that his favourite food was idli sambar and his favourite restaurant remains Mysore Café where he used to eat as a student at UCDT from 1973 to 1977.^[4]

References

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