loafer's corner cafe is a beautiful little cafe at the princess street at fort kochi. since my wife is from fort kochi, she had been nagging me to take her to this place for a very long time. so one fine day, we (my wife, brother, dad and myself) found ourself staring at the wheelbarrow shaped menu board at loafer's.
the cafe itself is on the first floor of the building and has a wooden floor. we were seated by the window which opened up to the street. there were a lot of beautiful graffiti too. when we were in, they were playing reggae versions of popular songs which added to the ambience.
as for the food, i went ahead and ordered a cardamom press coffee, while my brother and dad ordered the cold coffee. the press coffee came in a portable coffee maker thingy (not sure what its actually called !! ) and milk seperately. the coffee had good flavour balance between the coffee itself and the cardamom. the only problem i had with it was that it was not hot enough. the coffee was just mildly hot and after a few minutes, its turned cold.
along with the coffee, we ordered two omletes. one chicken kheema and chicken mushroom. both of them came with two pieces of toasted wheat bread, a chunk of butter and two watermelon pieces each. the omlet was light and fluffy and had the filling kept on the omletes and folded into two. i personally enjoyed the chicken mushroom omlete a lot. the chicken and mushroom went very well together and there were chunks of mayo in the mix.
for desert, we ordered a kiwi cheese cake and a banofee (banana - coffee) pie. i loved the kiwi cheesecake. it was light and airy with enough sourness to cut through the sweetness of it. i am not a fan of the pie though. 3/4th of the pie was caramel and it dominated it. the coffee and banana flavours were very passive.
for me the positives were the omletes and the ambience. its definitely one of those places that i will visit again.