The Living Room Cafe & Kitchen

We've been here at Hauz Khas Village 31 for a good while now. It's a bit of a climb up the stairs sometimes, but that's just how these old village buildings are built. Some days the music is just right for the mood, and other days we're just trying to make sure the coffee machine doesn't act up again like it did last Tuesday. People come in, they sit for hours with their books or laptops, and we don't really mind as long as there’s space for others. The kitchen gets really busy around dinner time, and you can hear the pans clanging from the seating area through the open door. We try to keep things simple with the food, nothing too fancy that we can't explain to a customer. Sometimes it gets a bit loud when the crowd picks up, but that's just the way the village is on a weekend night. We’ve had the same chairs for a bit now, and maybe they’ve got some character by now, even if they aren't brand new. The windows let in some decent light during the late afternoon. We spend a lot of time just cleaning up and making sure things are ready for the next day's shift. It’s a lot of work running a place like this, honestly. My cousin helped with the painting last year, and it looks okay, I guess. You see many familiar faces coming through the door.