Stone Hill Resto Cafe 1959

From the board on the wall

We cook with care and passion,
not just for profit.

The owner dines here every day, so we maintain the same standards for our guests.

Noartificial food colours
Notasting powders
Noreused oil
Every dish is freshly prepared

So it may take a little extra time. If you are in a hurry, kindly consider another option.

An arched window with dark wooden shutters, brass vessels stacked on a carved stand against a red-oxide floor. — Inside the house, Stuart Hill

The building at dusk with the blue and white bus parked alongside it. — The house at dusk

Madikeri, Kodagu

A house on Stuart Hill

The house

A tiled-roof house with white walls and a red plinth, set behind a paved courtyard. Inside, long rosewood tables and benches, arched windows with dark wooden shutters, brass lamps, and red-oxide floors.

The hill

Stuart Hill sits above Madikeri, near Raja Seat. From the terrace the town falls away below and the ridges of Kodagu run to the horizon.

Our story

"Stone Hill Cafe 1959" carved into a dry stone wall, framed by greenery. — The wall at the entrance

In the courtyard

A bus and a jeep

Two vehicles sit on the property. Neither is going anywhere, and both have become part of how people recognise the place.

A retired TATA bus stands in the courtyard, still lettered Shri Thalakauveri. An orange Mahindra parked alongside carries the Stone Hill name across its windscreen.