Favorite Tea Shop of My Homeland
Café Lune A café from the post independence era There are many French restaurants lifted every year around the white town at Pondicherry, but only very few know that café lune is the first French named café started in Pondicherry at 1960. When I entered the café for the first time, undeniably I stepped back to 1980’s period which is not frequent scene you encounter in the French colonized city. Brother for life A quick go through the café will give you a glimpse of 80’s style of interior which left unchanged for decades. Anwerdin and Ansari are two brothers who otherwise called as cleaners, servants, cashiers and pride owners of café lune. Café lune started at 1960 by their father C.A. Gaffur. “Café lune means coffee on moon”. Elder brother with 8 th grade and younger brother with SSLC took the responsibility of running the café at 1970. Café lune welcome visitors with a signboard with a social message on it given by foreign authors and local authors. Brother’s sen