Sree Muruga Cafe

Sree Muruga Cafe is the Poonithura breakfast counter people name for pazhampori and beef. The plate is ripe banana fritters with a plain, old-style beef curry, the combination the cafe is known for. Guests also come for appam, porotta, and the rest of a Kerala snack counter, and the service is the quick kind you expect at a neighbourhood hotel. The room is simple, with an air-conditioned section upstairs. The shop sign marks the cafe as open since 1943, and it still draws a crowd on Mini Bypass Road in Tripunithura for that fritter-and-curry breakfast.