Kuckeliku Breakfast House- all day cafe

Breakfast that does not stop at eleven

Kuckeliku serves breakfast all day, and that is the design rather than a marketing line. The plates are the ones you would want at nine in the morning: butter croissants, avocado toast, smoked salmon, French toast, French pancakes and egg waffles. They are also the ones still coming out of the kitchen in the late afternoon, which is what separates an all-day breakfast house from a café that stops serving eggs the moment lunch arrives.

Vietnamese coffee is the drink to know

Order the Vietnamese coffee first. It is the drink the café is most consistently associated with and the one that gives the room its character, strong and slow against a plate of something sweet. Tea and fresh juices fill in around it. There is no roaster relationship or brew-method program on show, so the coffee is best judged as a cup rather than as a coffee project, which suits the place.

A quiet corner of Colaba

The café sits in Colaba, in South Mumbai, and the room is calmer than that suggests: pretty, well decorated, quiet enough to stay in for an hour, and run with table service rather than a counter queue. Wi-Fi and a pet-friendly policy point the same way, toward somewhere you settle into. It works for a long solo breakfast as easily as for a slow catch-up, and there is delivery and takeaway for the days you stay home.