Hyderabad Is Home To India’s Largest Tea Cafe, A 40,000 Sq Ft Of Their Beloved Café Niloufer

No one expected a tea café to take up 40,000 sq ft, but Café Niloufer isn’t trying to be ordinary. With its newest outpost in Hyderabad’s HITEC City, the iconic Irani-chai brand has built a three-storey, 700-seater cultural landmark that’s part café, part memory palace, and fully local at heart.

Café Niloufer’s Interiors Feel Like Home, Only Bigger

 

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At Café Niloufer, each floor tells its own story. On the ground level, it’s a pure rush hour with a Quick Service Restaurant-style layout. Despite the rush, you cannot help but admire the sleek marble flooring in black, marsala and beige patterns. A giant marble cash counter proudly displays the name ‘Niloufer’ in bold brass–no points for subtlety here, but a 10 on 10 for loud elegance.

The first floor slows things down and is peaceful to its very core. A striking 15-foot-high terracotta screen divides the space while adding warmth and earthiness. Ribbon-shaped chandeliers coil dramatically across the ceiling. Canopied booths and plush private nooks are seated in soft corners, letting you escape the chaos just enough. The top floor transforms into a quiet, country-style tea lounge with subtle wood finishes, soft lights, and an overall calm vibe.

The design of this new outlet is credited to Chromed Design Studio in collaboration with The Mélange Studio, who wanted the space to feel rooted in Hyderabad’s ethos. The use of local materials, warm palettes, patterns that shift with light, and layers that reveal themselves gradually is a testimony to this vision of theirs. 

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The Kettle That Floats

But the real showstopper is suspended in the atrium. Niloufer’s Kettle of Love: A Journey Through Time is a 2-ton brass art installation designed by Soga Design. It floats through two floors, made up of 2,025 hanging spheres forming tea leaves, and culminates in a kettle formed from 1,500 more. It glows gold under the atrium light, giving a completely new meaning to the term ‘ethereal.’ 

Café’s ‘Buntastic’ Menu

 

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Just like other outlets, Café Niloufer’s HITEC City outlet serves the classics like kadak chai, Osmania biscuits, and bun maska. But, the menu has gone ambitious too! Their Soya Keema Crostini, Hakka Noodles, Millet Tikkis, Caprese Italiano Croissant, pizza and desserts like Rasmalai Cake are too much to handle and too good to miss. With this lavish menu, they are not just serving nostalgia but evolution in real-time.

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With a terrace seating that is al fresco-core, Niloufer’s newest chapter in Hyderabad isn’t just designed, it’s choreographed for tea lovers in the city. From fast mornings to slow lunches and late-night chai, the cafe delivers a dining experience far beyond the ordinary.

When: 11 AM to 12 AM
Where: Café Niloufer, HITEC City, Hyderabad
Cost: ₹500 for two (approx.)

Cover Image Courtesy: Cafeniloufer/Website

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