Our Achievements

• 2005: Enter the Montana “Food and Wine Challenge”. We won the “Best Restaurant award in Wellington region” by consumers vote. We would like to thank all our loyal customers and we look forward to your continued support.

• 2003: Our café won the “Best Masala Dosai” in the Dominion Post food awards.

• 2002: We are featured in “Cuisine” magazine. This tells the whole country about us. We have introduced new chefs, who now offer Sukka, Butter Chicken, Barrotta, etc.

• 2001: We are featured in the “Lonely Planet” and “Rough Guide to N.Z.” tourist guidebooks.

• 1998: David Burton, Evening Post food writer, gives us 5/5 for our food. By now we have added Varuval, Varthakari, Masala etc, to our menu.

History of this cafe

1994: Richard opens this restaurant, at 120 Victoria St. The interior has to be rebuilt, with the large grill, and overhead convector allowing us to make up to 500 breads a day. At first, Richard has just one chef-helper, plus two waiting staff. He’d make the rotis, then dash upstairs to help with the curries. The menu then was much more limited; we just did curries, breads, rending and noodle dishes.

We offer the $5 Roti cheenai lunch, which is very popular soon’ Richard’s mother arrived from chennai. She helps introduces Varuval, Varuthakari, Laksa and Meegoreng. The menu has more depth, for different tastes.