L E Jardin

L E Jardin is located at Mahathma Gandhi Road 19th Main Road 37-39. Being on MG Road sounds fancy, but our bit of it is just a regular street corner with a lot of dust from the construction nearby. We’ve been at this spot for some years now. It’s a big space, so it takes a lot of work to keep it clean. We’re usually here at 6 AM to start the cleaning and prep. We don't have a big mission statement or anything. We just want to make sure that when you sit down, your table isn't wobbly and the food is okay. We’ve had some staff come and go, but the core group has stayed the same. We know which floorboards creak and which light switches are finicky. It’s a bit of an old building, so it has its quirks. We don’t spend much on advertising because we’re usually too busy just running the place. Sometimes the phone rings off the hook and we can’t get to it, and other times it’s quiet enough to sit and have a tea. We’ve seen the city change a lot from our windows at 37-39. New buildings going up, old ones coming down. We just keep doing what we do every day. It’s not a glamorous life, but it’s ours, and we like being part of the noise of the city.