🟢 36 of 39 dishes vegetarian · 🔺 3 egg · Tea house and snack centre · Upvas food made every day

Coffee and Snacks Centre — but mostly tea

Ten cups from one counter

Normal, masala, ginger, elaichi, pudina, tulsi, lemongrass and black — and the same cup made with less sugar, or with none at all, rather than served with the sugar on the side.

The list

  • Vegetarian

    Normal Tea

    ₹110

    The everyday cup — boiled long, milky, sweet. Everything else on this list is a change rung on it.

  • Vegetarian

    Masala Tea

    ₹120

    Cardamom, clove, pepper and cinnamon boiled in rather than stirred on top.

  • Vegetarian

    Ginger Tea

    ₹110

    Fresh ginger crushed into the pot. The one to ask for in the monsoon, and the best-rated cup on the list.

  • Vegetarian

    Elaichi Tea

    ₹120

    Green cardamom alone, without the rest of the masala. Softer, and more fragrant for it.

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    Pudina Tea

    ₹120

    Mint leaf steeped through. Lighter than it sounds, and the one people order after a heavy plate.

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    Tulsi Tea

    ₹120

    Holy basil, brewed the household way. Ordered as much for a sore throat as for the taste.

  • Vegetarian

    Lemon Grass Tea

    ₹120

    Lemongrass steeped until it turns citrus without turning sour.

  • Vegetarian

    Black Tea

    ₹100

    No milk. The cheapest cup on the counter and, if you take it without sugar, the plainest.

  • Vegetarian

    Without Sugar Tea

    ₹120

    Made unsweetened from the start rather than served with sugar on the side — which is the difference.

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    Less Sugar Tea

    ₹120

    Half the sugar, same cup. On the menu because enough people ask for it that it stopped being a special request.

About these prices. These are the shop’s delivery prices. Ordering over the counter is usually cheaper — a delivery menu carries the platform’s commission and the packaging. They are taken from the shop's own listing rather than from a board, so treat them as the upper end and ask at the counter.

About these pictures. The dish pictures on this page are illustrations, not photographs of our own plates. They show what a dish is, not the portion you will be served.

Which one to ask for

The default

🍵 Normal tea

Boiled long, milky, sweet. Everything else here is a change rung on this one, and if you do not know the shop it is the cup to judge it by.

In the monsoon

🫚 Ginger tea

Fresh ginger crushed into the pot rather than a powder stirred in afterwards. It is also the best-rated cup on the shop’s own listing, for whatever that is worth.

After a heavy plate

🌿 Pudina tea

Mint steeped through. Lighter than it sounds, and the one people order after the fried half of the menu.

For a throat

🪴 Tulsi tea

Holy basil, brewed the household way. Ordered as much for a cold as for the taste, which is a fair reason to have it on a menu.

Plainest

⚫ Black tea

No milk, and at ₹100 the cheapest cup on the counter. Ask for it without sugar and it is the plainest thing the shop makes.

The honest one

🚫 Without sugar, and less sugar

Two separate items, made that way from the start. It matters more than it sounds: tea boiled with sugar and tea sweetened afterwards do not taste the same, and a diabetic household knows the difference immediately.

A note on the sugar

Most tea stalls will say yes to “kum meethi” and then hand over the same cup, because the pot was sweetened an hour ago. Listing Without Sugar Tea and Less Sugar Tea as their own items, at their own price, is a shop committing to making them separately. If you are asking because of a diagnosis rather than a preference, say so — it is the difference between a small courtesy and a real one.

Come round

Shop four, Gavdavi Darshana, at Satyawan Chowk in Devichapada. Open from eight in the morning until eleven at night, every day.

Shop No. 04, Gavdavi Darshana, Satyawan Chowk, Devichapada, Dombivli (West), Thane — 421202 · 8.00 a.m. – 11.00 p.m. · the telephone line also reaches Nalini’s Kitchen, so ask for this shop