Welcome to Surfire – The Coastal Cafe to indulge your buds with the southern flavours – a 32 seater eatery located near Mudiali Club and Menoka Cinema, Southern Avenue.

The cafe has launched a new dining concept that brings all the unique culinary techniques packed with a mouthful of flavours collected from the best of South Indian Veg and Non-Veg cuisines across the states.

The cafe not only restricted its menu as a decent quick stop for basic South Indian dishes – vada sambar but moves few steps further by presenting the curries and hearty shakes that is definitely going to floor every guest visiting the cafe. The cafe has established the mission to take a food trip around the regions of Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Goa with its recipes flowing from the kitchens curved by the ‘mothers’ over generations.

Coming to the decor –

The entrance of the cafe sprawls to L-shaped dining area with pale yellow colour tones on the walls and high ceilings are not the only eye soothing, but gives a spacious look and feel to the decor.

The glossy finishes on the wooden accessories add the right touch to red matte finish contrast tones of the dining table decoratives, the little condiment pots with Southern influence and the fine dining style cutlery which makes the cafe ambience more inviting and warm to the guests, thus giving a homely feel.

The vibrant colours of wall art prints on the high pillars, abstract in nature break the monotonous look of the yellow effect all around.

A section of the dining area on the right of its entrance is staged for live musical performance. The cafe is housed with a wall projector screen to project recorded events to the diners.

Ishani Priyadarshini and Mukund Balachandran – the masterminds behind the design have brilliantly presented her gastronomic skills to treat the palate with flavours of different lands – an outcome of her longtime hard work and research.

They have established a great example to tantalise the buds of Kolkata Coffee ☕️ Fanatics by setting up South Indian Filter Coffee Maker – the frothy texture and the strong, rich aroma of the freshly brewed ground coffee touched my ☕️ soul. Definitely going to boost your morning dose of energy.

South Indian Filter Coffee

Coming to food served –

DRINKS:

Sharjah –

Kerala special King Of Milkshakes. A frozen milk with peanuts and banana milkshake, Horlicks, coffee powder with added secret ingredients.

Sharjah

Sharjah

Jigarthanda –

Jigar means ‘heart’ and Thanda means ‘cold’. In other words, it’s considered soothing to heart. A Madurai speciality summer street side. Comes with milk, nannari sharbat (sarsaparilla root extract) with strong badam flavour, a dollop of ice cream and added special ingredients. The palate felt somewhere between the milkshake and falooda. The complex rich flavours of each ingredient finely percolated through the buds.

Jigarthanda

Kaapi Fizz –

High-quality beverage for espresso lovers if you would like to experiment your Freshly brewed filter black coffee with cola. An interesting blend – the fizzy texture with the delicate taste will definitely drive you crazy.

In few words, just blown away with the uniqueness in terms of taste of all the above Drinks and Shakes. MUST MUST TRY.

Kaapi Fizz

STARTER :

Masala Idli –

Crispy from outside and moist inside. Pieces of mildly spiced idlis tossed in curry leaves and mustard. A quick snack to pair with a filter coffee.

Masala Idli

DOSA:

Chorizo Dosa –

A SurFiré exclusive, Goan sausage stuffed Dosa, a first in India. A very innovative fusion of South Indian dosa and Spanish Chorizo – smoked sausage seasoned with smoked paprika. Brilliantly crispy on the edges always a winner on the menu.

Chorizo Dosa

MAIN COURSE:

Butter Garlic Crab –

Just crab drowned in butter and crispy garlic. Will make you drool. The taste has been recreated to restrict only to warm spicy burnt garlic and butter tossed with steamed crabs.🦀

Butter Garlic Crab

Thattukada Mutton –

Mutton cooked as in the roadside shops of South India. In other words, Kerela’s version of the Streetside food. Spicy succulent🌶 pieces of mutton served in a pale yellow curry with🍛 roasted coconuts and 🥥 secret spices.

Thattukada Mutton

Prawn Chettinad –

A dish from Tamil Nadu, Prawns in a peppery Chettinad gravy – an awesome seafood delicacy that makes mouth-watery to every prawn lovers.🍤 The aromatic Chettinad masala was done to its perfection to envelop the roasted shrimps.

Prawn Chettinad

Vegetable Moilee –

A traditional dish from Kerala, vegetables in thin creamy pale yellow coconut gravy. Leaves a lingering taste in the mouth.

Vegetable Moilee

All the above Main Courses are served with tasty lacy soft thin pancake (Appam), Rice or flaky Parota.

Lemon Rice –

A comfort summer food from Tamil Nadu, is always refreshing and tangy to taste. A great way to enhance a plain rice with lemon, urad lentils, curry leaves – a perfect accompaniment to southern style curries.

Lemon Rice

All the dishes are HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

The cafe has the provision to host cultural performances, press meets, books and music launches etc.

Some glimpses from the Music Launch of the Bengali Movie – Flat No. 609 at the cafe.

Thank you so much, First Idea PR – Atreya Paul and Susmita Kundu for the warm invitation.

Thanks a lot, Ishani Priyadarshini and Mukund Balachandran for your gracious hospitality.

Please extend my thanks to your team for their warm service.