Please/Do not spit/Do not sit more/Pay promptly, time is valuable/Do not write letter/without order refreshment/Do not comb,/hair is spoiling floor/Do not make mischiefs in cabin/our waiter is reporting/Come again/All are welcome whatever cast/If not satisfied tell us/otherwise tell others/GOD IS GREAT ‘Irani Restaurant Instructions’, a poem by Nissim Ezekiel (1972) “This is Munna. He likes sleeping here on the counter. His father Circuit must be around somewhere.” Afshin Kohinoor introduces his cats to me, in between tending change and shouting orders to his waiters. It is just another day at Britannia & Co, a 91-year-old Irani café located in South Mumbai, which has seen the days roll by unchanged for decades. A third generation Irani-Indian, Afshin mans the cash counter, while his nonagenarian father Boman Kohinoor moves from table to table taking orders and chatting up customers: “That Abishekh (Bachchan) is a badmaash! Do you know that ... » Learn More about Bun maska and Irani chai
