Cafe Pramadham

chennai's specialty coffee scene has been quietly building momentum for years, moving well past the filter coffee legacy the city is famous for without abandoning it. cafe pramadham on greams road sits in that interesting middle ground. thousand lights is a dense, working part of central chennai, not a gentrified cafe district, which means the people you'll find here tend to actually want coffee rather than a backdrop for something else. the shop has built a genuine local following, which in a city this opinionated about what goes in a cup, takes real consistency to earn. if you're moving through that part of the city, greams road in the late morning is about as good a reason to stop as any.