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A little corner of serenity(ea)!

March 2nd, 2009  |  Published in Adventure, Eating, Food, India, Photography, Travel  |  18 Comments

In my per­fect world, I will be sur­rounded by a lot of teapots and ket­tles of vary­ing shapes and sizes. There will be steam­ing hot cups of tea in dif­fer­ent flavours wait­ing to be tasted. Tea strain­ers, tea pots, tea cosies and the intox­i­cat­ing smell of the dark brew everywhere. 

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. ~ C.S. Lewis

When I chanced upon TPot on Peter­celli street one after­noon as I was wan­der­ing around aim­lessly, I had to pinch myself to make sure I hadn’t walked into a dream or a scene out of Alice in Wonderland! 


The after­noon light fil­tered through the high win­dows on the wall, cre­at­ing some cosy cor­ners and giv­ing the whole place an inter­est­ing effect. Inside, there was a yel­low orange light that lit up the teapots and ket­tles all around. They were every­where : on the walls, on the cab­i­net, some even hung from the ceiling. 

Teapots hanging from the ceiling

I found myself a cosy cor­ner and set­tled in for my tea. After tuck­ing into some fish curry and fluffy appams, I had a chat with the owner San­jai who was sit­ting inside. 

Col­lect­ing tea mem­o­ra­bilia took him a few months (my mom thought I had lost it, he rem­i­nisced). A lot of the things : tea cosies, strain­ers, pots, ket­tles — around have been sourced from Jew Town and a few other areas where he would go and for­age the old mar­kets for inter­est­ing things. On the wall, are pho­tographs, also around the tea theme. 

Teapot Light and shadow

San­jai admits to me that he’s never been much of a tea per­son. It’s just an idea that took wings and a few months later, along with the able help of a part­ner, he had a full-fledged “tea room” open to the pub­lic. The inte­rior of Teapot is rus­tic and evokes a kind of old world charm. Includ­ing the tables, which have been put together using the boards that come out of tea chests. Even the chairs are slightly ancient look­ing, but rather com­fort­able. In the main seat­ing area is a big table that is sup­ported by a huge tea bush. In case you want to throw a big tea party. 

In Teapot, besides tea you can also get cof­fee(!) and some food in case you’re hun­gry. And since the place is open from morn­ing till evening, you can have any of your meals here. I take a walk up to the “attic” like area which has a view of the whole of the down­stairs from amidst more tea ket­tles. Here you can set­tle down with a book or just spend some quiet time by yourself. 

Stocked up

My fish and fluffy appams with mus­tard is rather deli­cious and I wash it down with another cup of tea. Of course, I am totally charmed by the place and come back sev­eral times dur­ing my 3 day stay in Fort Cochin. I espe­cially love the quiet no non­sense ambi­ence of the place. I’m sure you will too if you hap­pen to step into the place. 

If you’re roam­ing around Fort Cochin, you know who told you about the Teapot :-)

There’s more:
The Teapot Album

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  1. Tara says:

    March 2nd, 2009 at 4:03 pm (#)

    Its inter­est­ing how your descrip­tion of some remote place in a cor­ner of world makes me feel i must look for it when i am there when­ever in time.
    good obser­va­tion !! :) keep going.

  2. Mayurakshi says:

    March 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 am (#)

    Sounds like an inter­est­ing place. Might get a chance to visit Cochin in May. Would check it out. And I know what you mean about the per­fect world being filled with teapots and var­i­ous fla­vors of tea. Mine would have coffee!

  3. lostonthestreet says:

    March 3rd, 2009 at 8:54 am (#)

    Now I have to go back to cochin just to visit this place.It def­i­nitely was not there when I went..Nothing like a nice cup of black tea for me..none of those milky north indian chai

  4. anu srikumar says:

    March 3rd, 2009 at 5:20 pm (#)

    i have to hand it to you.…. how in gods name do u man­age to find these tiny places?? :-)

    btw, your pho­tog­ra­phy is just amazing.…..

  5. Anita says:

    March 6th, 2009 at 7:17 am (#)

    @ tata: ah… then you must def­i­nitely visit and my job is done :-)

    @ mayu­rak­shi: you must! and you get cof­fee there also!

    @ loston­thestreet: me too! love black tea and can’t have doodh and that hor­ri­bly sweet indian chai!

    @ anu: it’s not too hard! thanks!

  6. noni says:

    March 6th, 2009 at 2:24 pm (#)

    you are awarded with The Pre­mio Dar­dos Award

  7. Shilpa says:

    March 7th, 2009 at 5:58 pm (#)

    I’ve been there… its amaz­ing.. i had the camomile tea and it was one of the best I’ve tasted

  8. Sushanth says:

    March 8th, 2009 at 1:15 am (#)

    Cool ! i like the way …whole thing has been explained as usual i have always been a fan of ur blog … very reg­u­lar reader …:-)

    I like the pho­tog­ra­phy also … nice … very nice !

  9. sirensong says:

    March 10th, 2009 at 4:06 pm (#)

    Thanks for the link, Anita!
    come to Kath­mandu and we’ll open a theme restau­rant, “Alice’s Tea Party” all like Alice in Won­der­land, noth­ing but tea.…and scones of course.

  10. naresh says:

    March 11th, 2009 at 9:36 am (#)

    its really good to see that you are still blogging … :)

  11. Anita says:

    March 11th, 2009 at 2:25 pm (#)

    @ noni: thank you!

    @ shilpa: camomile tea… ah, i could do with a cuppa right now!

    @ sushanth: hey, thanks for the nice words. do keep drop­ping by!

    @ siren­song: that is indeed quite an attrac­tive propo­si­tion! are you based in kathmandu? 

    @ naresh: ahem… means what?

  12. Aroha says:

    March 17th, 2009 at 11:36 am (#)

    Tea never semed more entic­ing ;) Hot bev­er­ages are not my thing but your write up makes me want to look this place up..

  13. Anita says:

    March 18th, 2009 at 1:39 pm (#)

    @ aroha: tea is the best! you must if you get a chance!

  14. Rhapsody says:

    March 29th, 2009 at 7:53 am (#)

    Wow! I want visit this place.
    And what amaz­ing pictures!

  15. Shiva says:

    April 6th, 2009 at 5:47 am (#)

    A hot cup of tea has saved me on many occasions. 

    I think it might be my soulmate.

    Nice blog, by the way =).

  16. ‘Tis time for tea « Itchy Feet says:

    July 21st, 2009 at 12:30 pm (#)

    […] I first came across TeaPot on Anita’s blog and I knew I had to go there while in Fort Kochi… […]

  17. Just a little something » Under the shade of the rain tree in Fort Kochi says:

    September 4th, 2009 at 9:40 am (#)

    […] For food, I would drop in at TeaPot which soon became my favourite haunt. There I would sit and while away my time, order tea, appams and what­ever caught my fancy. And since it was on the way to the lodge, I always found an excuse to drop in. […]

  18. priya sharma says:

    October 23rd, 2009 at 1:42 pm (#)

    anita, thank you for such a nice write up. I am sanjai’s part­ner. Hap­pened to read the arti­cle. Thank you very much. Hope to meet you some­time. Bye
    Priya

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