Chidambaram, since 13 May 1943
Ground and packed after your order
South Indian filter coffee from one shop on Bazaar Street.
நிரந்தரம்! தரம்! சுந்தரம்!
Rain, shade trees, and a long wait
Coffee grows slowly under other trees, in the hills of Karnataka and Kerala, where the mist arrives before the light does. We select from those established growing regions.
Coffee is a fruit before it is a bean
What gets roasted is the seed of a red cherry. Skin, pulp, parchment, seed. Everything before the roast is the work of removing three of those four.
Green seed.Heat.Then the smelleveryone recognises.
We roast in the shop. For bulk orders we roast after the order arrives, because a roast is only worth doing close to the cup it ends up in.
The filter
Then nothing happens for twenty minutes
Powder in the upper chamber. Hot water over it. And then the part no machine improves: waiting, while the decoction finds its way down, one drop at a time.
திரும்ப திரும்ப அருந்தத் தூண்டும்
Chidambaram
One street. 83 years.
Sundaram Coffee Works opened on 13 May 1943 and has not moved. We roast, blend, grind and pack it ourselves, and more than 5,000 customers buy it every month.
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Order it the way the shop works
Choose your coffee, send the order on WhatsApp, and we confirm it with you. It is ground and packed after that, not before. Free delivery in Tamil Nadu on 500 g and above.
நிரந்தரம்! தரம்! சுந்தரம்!
180 Bazaar Street, Chidambaram. Open since 13 May 1943.