A friend recently sent me an Instagram post about the “top 32” cafés in Bangalore. I replied bragging that I have been to 16 of them.
There is this weird thing people in Bangalore do. They want to “explore” new cafés all the time. And more than that, they want to tell you about the new cafe they have explored. It might be the Instagram story with the “Saturday morning done right” caption or it might be the overly excited brag when you ask the innocent “how was your weekend?” question.
Honestly, I think a good way for a new cafe to get popular is to make sure there is some place where people can take photos which is instantly recognisable. If you notice some of the Instagram stories these days, I think cafe owners already know this trick.
Anyways, I don’t know how to feel about it. On one hand I do enjoy going to “new” cafe even though all of them server basically the same coffee and pancakes, On the other hand talking about all the cafés you’ve been to oddly reminds me of the conversations we used to have about the latest Pokémon/WWE cards we used to collect as kids.