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Cafe Tesu : A delightful cafe beating the mayhem outside

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MEENAKSHI RAO   finds a rare cafe that has its wines rightly chilled & its Bellini rightly mixed to go with innovative and delicious food platters What do we do well which the French are known to do innately better? For one, India has been refining and Indianising France’s eclectic street cafe culture by creating its own food and ambience to suit the Indian eye, especially in metros like Delhi. Paris abounds with cafes that spread their tables on to the pedestrianways through the afternoon and well into the night and nobody minds sidestepping the walkways as the gentry sips their coffee or wine with the cheese, looking out into the vista, chirping with friends or just enjoying a few different strokes on their sketch pads. That’s Paris for you. Cool and happening on the streets, thanks to its vibrant climes. Delhi can’t really stretch its cafes into the streets and doesn’t have the weather conducive for a roadside existence even for a short coffee break. But amid the h