Crepes & More at Khan Market

It all started with my pal — let’s call her PeeCee — getting grumpy of a Monday morning. Nope, them weren’t manic Monday moods, them be breakfast-eaters’ blues — viz, the ones that attack people who eat breakfast at crack of dawn when they’ve skipped it till eleven.

We searched high and low for a year, from Paharganj to Patparganj. Finally, a fortnight ago, found our perfect plate — er, place. At a lime and orange bench-and-table overlooking a disorientingly deserted Khan Market parking lot (it’s just gone 8.30am, and they’re open till 11pm, still serving breakfast as well as soups, sandwiches and pasta to lazy daisies like our other pals). We’ve so far tucked into a berry bowl with yoghurt — with real-live berries — and pounced on poached eggs with salmon and asparagus! The TV journalist in tow, back from his late shift, placidly poured a Daily Planet down his throat — and suddenly brightened up, searching the bottom of his glass for more berries (it’s fun to suck/pick them up with the straw when you’ve slurped down the soyamilk/yoghurt/banana/honey/orange/oat uber-energizer).

Now we’re sipping real-good coffee — with complementary hazelnut crisps (the peeps from Mrs Kaur’s are behind this place too) — and waiting for our friends. Across the room, the open kitchen is bustling with orders for crepes — du Puys aloo-filled, Belgian feathered with three colours of chocolate, apple-and-butterscotch Anglaise. While TV Guy dismembers his everything-on-a-plate combo of sausage, bacon, eggs and more, we hope our politeness holds out until our pals are here. But it’s hard — the aroma and sizzle is weak-making!

Crepes and More, 66 Khan Market (first floor, entry from middle lane), New Delhi; ph: 43528300. Meal for two Rs 850.