Our story

Les amis — the friends.

Every good thing on our counter started at a table full of friends who wouldn't go home.

It began simply enough: a shared weakness for proper gelato, the kind that has to be made the same morning it's eaten, and a stubborn belief that Chennai deserved a pâtisserie counter it didn't have to fly for.

So we learned the slow way. French technique — real entremets, laminated doughs, custards that take their time — folded together with the fruit, the milk, and the moods of home. Alphonso in summer. Filter-coffee instincts behind an espresso machine. Small batches, every single day, because gelato keeps no secrets and no leftovers.

The Les Amis kitchen team at work under the pass lights

The full Les Amis team gathered in the café

The café came to be what the name promised: a place for friends. For a scoop after school, a slice after dinner, a slow pour-over behind a laptop on a Tuesday afternoon. Stay as long as you like — that's rather the point.

A pastry chef pouring rocher glaze over a chocolate cake on a wire rack

Golden evening light falling across the café staircase through a paned window

Two friends sharing gelato at a sunlit window table

The Les Amis front-of-house team in branded caps and aprons under the pendant lights — The people who actually make it — front of house, most of them here since the first summer.

There are more pictures than words in the gallery. Follow the counter day to day at @lesamis.in, or better — come by. We'll keep a chair for you.