Let’s Buy Cakes From the Experts

JM & Sons English Bakery in the city has catered to celebrities such as Dr.S.Radhakrishnan, Zakir Hussain and Jawaharlal Nehru. Mudiappa Chettiar ( 1900 -1973 ) ran a successful tailoring centre which catered to the Europeans on Bank Road. There were over 100 tailors with him. Around that time, an Indian named Mell, who knew baking and had lost his earnings in Ceylon returned to India and sought a job at Vincent & Co Bakery, Trichy. The owner of the bakery referred him to Mudiappa Chettiar who set up a bakery that sold bread called Glad well & Company with two friends on Variety Hall Road. Mell stayed with Mudiappa Chettiar. When the bakery shifted to Avinashi Road, the partnership ceased and the new bakery was called JM & Sons English Bakery after the wife of Mudiappa Chettiar, Jebamalai Mariammal.