Connaught Place has no shortage of cafes. Walk either circle and you will pass a dozen rooms serving coffee, cocktails and something pan-Asian. So what makes Plum Coffee and Cocktails — 1st Floor, N-86, Outer Circle — worth a detour? Here are the five differences that our regulars point to, all of them things you can verify on a single visit.
1. A cafe that is also a design store
The first thing anyone notices at Plum is not the menu — it is the furniture. The room is dressed with decor, crockery and furniture from Bent Chair, and the pieces around your table are not staging: dining at Plum is genuinely a retail-meets-restaurant experience, where the chair you like and the plates your food arrives on are part of the showcase. No other cafe in Connaught Place runs the meal and the showroom in the same room.
2. Coffee and cocktails with equal seriousness
Plum holds two identities without compromising either. The coffee programme runs all day — a real specialty-coffee stop from the 12:00 PM opening — and the cocktail bar takes the room into the night. Most rooms in CP lean one way or the other: a cafe with a token drinks list, or a bar that opens late and serves coffee as an apology. At Plum, the 2:00 PM order and the 11:00 PM order are both legitimate, which is the entire idea behind the name.
3. Open until 1:00 AM, every day
Plum opens at 12:00 PM and closes at 1:00 AM, seven days a week. In a district where many kitchens wind down by 11:00 PM, a fixed 1:00 AM close changes what an evening in CP can be: dinner at 9:30, small plates at 11:00, a last round without anyone checking their watch. For late-night plans, this is the practical difference — the kitchen does not disappear before the night does.
4. A pan-Asian menu built for sharing
The kitchen leans pan-Asian and global, with sushi as a signature category and a menu structured around small plates rather than a single plated main. That changes the shape of the meal: two or three plates at a time, the table passing things across, the conversation staying on the food. It also makes Plum unusually easy for mixed groups — the adventurous and the cautious eaters at the same table both find their lane. A meal for two runs approximately ₹2,000.
5. A 2023 room with an owner's fingerprint
Plum opened in 2023 at Connaught Place under Priyank Sukhija, whose group has shaped much of Delhi's dining scene, with the kitchen guided by Corporate Chef Sagar S Bajaj. The point is not name-dropping — it is that the room feels deliberate. The Bent Chair styling, the coffee-to-cocktail arc, the late hours and the pan-Asian menu are one design decision, not four accidents. Rooms that new usually feel borrowed; this one feels composed.
Which of these should decide your visit?
If you are choosing between CP cafes, match the difference to the plan:
- A late dinner that will not be rushed → the 1:00 AM close is the reason to come.
- A daytime catch-up over serious coffee → the cafe half runs all day.
- A table that photographs well → the Bent Chair room is unlike any other in the district.
- A mixed group with wide-ranging tastes → the shared pan-Asian menu solves it.
- Sushi in CP → it is the kitchen's signature category.
Come and check us against the list
Every claim above is testable in one evening: coffee at the start, small plates and sushi in the middle, cocktails before the 1:00 AM close, and a good look at the furniture while you wait for the next round.
Book a table at our Connaught Place outlet, or call +91 93197 23976 if you would rather talk to the team first.
