Coorg: Best High Tea experiences, Home bakers & Home cooks

Women in Coorg are so enterprising, I have been saying it all along. I experienced it myself only in the past 15 years, with my mother and other relatives regularly placing food orders with bakers and cooks in Coorg, we have had our tummies and hearts full through the years. Engagement starters, Wedding desserts, Naming Ceremony snacks, Birthday cakes and Evening tea cakes, the list of the most delicious sweets and snacks that can be made by these talented women is endless.

Some History

This goes back to the whole concept of 'Tea Time' being a big affair in Coorg.

Coorg is a coffee growing district, however tea is served and consumed at large. More than coffee was and is. Tea time in Coorg was heavily influenced by the British, the whole concept of holding a teacup with saucer was a matter of pride and refinement for Coorgs. Their habits and recipes rubbed off on us. Over the years till today women in Coorg have taken pride in baking cakes, biscuits, quiches, pies; preserving homemade wines, liqueurs, pickles and butter; or to that matter making scones, fudges, souffles to name a few.

Tea Time is a very significant window in in the day of a Coorg, it involves an elaborate spread with dishes that are wholesome and feel like a dinner spread. Preparations start hours in advance and the thindi menu or snacks are planned days before. Thindis usually consist of murukus or what we call chakkulli, chirotti, niputt (these are influenced by recipes and verisons of neighbouring states). Accompanied with the English snacks or tea cakes. There also usually traditional curries (like a chicken curry or mutton curry) served with a rice cake accompaniment.

My list of Bakers and Cooks who operate out of their homes in Coorg

Here are a list of my favourite bakers and home cooks from whom you can order in Coorg. Kindly give them prior notice to respect their effort and time. You can contact them directly through these numbers below and request for their menu in advance. They bake in large and small quantities and are definitely well worth your money. The contacts below are enlisted area wise in Coorg.

Hathur-Kundha

Ramya's Home (+91 94836 22623)

At home high tea, call to book an evening with Ramya Naren who hosts high tea in her beautiful English cottage in Coorg

Polibetta, Hosur

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Radhika Muthanna and Savita Chengappa

(+919448062622 / +91 98808 85620)

Fudges, Cakes, Cheesecakes, Liqueurs & Squashes

Panchu Belliappa (+91 99459 97575)

Birthday cakes and wedding cakes with the most high quality ingredients

Virajpet

Divya Madaiah (+91 94818 83344)

Curated Coorg food experience at luxury resorts, call to book a traditional meal cooked by Divya. She also also bakes cakes and makes other sweet treats.

Mitthai Mane, Next to the bust stand, Virajpet Town 

Thindis like kajayya and chirotti, jujubes, kara namkeen

Ammathi & Guya

Poonam Girish (+91 95354 68887)

Customized cakes, cupcakes, brownies and desserts

Sushma Madappa (+919845283210)

Khow-Suey, Thukpa, Sri Lankan Rice

Chithra (+91 90080 03697)

Pandhi curry, Kodava food

Vidya (+91 97410 58589)

Velvet coffee mousse and other desserts

Shanthi (+91 96861 07365)

Homemade wines, pickles

Gonnikopal, Ponnampet

Krishma Devaiah (+91 99806 72949)

Mini quiches, fudges and bites

Nitya (‎+91 98449 03724)

Thindis, William square, Fig fudge

Aiyappa (+91 6364 703 752)

Thindis like mini kajayas, chirotti, chakkulli

Haasya Aiyappa (+91 98673 58898)

Seafood like fish fry, prawns, crab curry

Nimmi Almengada (+91 94802 38721)

Apricot brandy and other homemade wines

Zarina Appanna (+91 87623 47459, +91 98806 24868)

Mini sausage puffs among other puff pastry short eats

Panchami (+91 94818 69046)

Madikeri, Chettalli

Priamvada Gajaraj (Nin) (+91 99001 64670)

Shepherd's pie, Coorg pork and kadambuttu, pork spare ribs, pork burgers, chicken wings

Bhawani (8971610008)

Banana Halwa, Traditional Kodava thindis (snacks), Chakkuli, Brownies (salted caramel)

Kutta

Nikhitha Chengappa (+918762237844)

French macarons and macaron cakes

Balele

Reshma Cariappa (9449403372)

French macarons, fudge, brownie, homemade wine and coffee liqueur. Coorg style onak erachi (smokes pork)

Please note: These are names of those that my family and I have personally tried and loved.

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