It is a café that seems to be hands in glove with a fashion store, where you can have both mufflers and masala chaas, shop for a skirt and slurp on a soup. And the name — Café Style — says it all rather straightforwardly. The 80-cover, two-level place at Sector 18, Noida, brings all the informality of a café in its plain tables with nothing but salt-and-pepper shakes and mustard bottles for decoration. There are a few couches for comfort and a splash of burnt orange for warmth. Style is reserved for the walls where models peep from within frames and a corner on the first floor where gloves, mufflers, skirts and trousers — costing Rs 200-1,000 — invite you to take them off the racks.

Started by Chetan Malik, 25, who quit his job as chef de partie at a London restaurant, Café Style is open from 8 am to midnight. There is an American breakfast (Rs 185) with cereals and eggs, plus croissants. For almost half the price, you can have the desi version, with pao bhaji and masala chaas, or buttered paranthas.

We start with the quaintly named soup Hungarian Palaco (Rs 135), a generously served broth of vegetables and mutton. And if you like your fondues and beer, but haven’t yet figured out the gourmet way of enjoying them both in one go, try the Beer and Cheese Soup (Rs 135). Gruyere, Emmental and Gouda are melted and spiked with beer. There is also the South African version of fast food, Bunny Chow (Rs 155). A distant relative of pao bhaji, it is hollowed-out bread stuffed with curried vegetables, with fries and salad on the side. A story goes that the dish was concocted by migrant Indian workers in Durban in the 19th century. The Anglo-Indian Curry (Rs 320) has chunks of chicken cooked in coconut milk and shot through nicely with onion marmalade, leaving a lasting tang. You can pair it with breads, straight from the in-house bakery.

Fish and chips takes the avatar of Fried Fish Croissant (Rs 230) here — a sliver of sole is sandwiched between croissants and accompanied by a salad. If you like your fish spicy, go for Jamaican Salsa (Rs 330), with grilled sole doused in a peppery sauce. Burgerrabia (Rs 195) is an Arabian twist to the famous fast food, with pita stuffed with egg, mutton slivers, cheese and lettuce. Wash them down with any of the mocktails on offer.