The Foodies' City - Bangalore

For Vegetarians like me Bangalore is a Paradise! No where else can one find such abstract and diversified types of food except in our traditional Bangalore City. With City raining in every 3 weeks throughout the year the the food seems so customized for the kind of climate our city has. Its so magical!! No bangalorean can stay without eating the Butter Idly Vada or stay away from going to the Adigas, Yatrinivas or the Kamats!! Its so hard to resist the Chat corners, the Darshinis, the pani puris, and joints like cool join, chathouse, dosa bar, icynicey etc., are on the top of the list for pick n eat sections for their soups n sandwiches!! then comes the Ganesh Juice Centre, Milkshakes and Kulfi addas!! oh bangalore is full of these and thats another thing that makes the city so so special!
In cities like Hyderbad, the place lacks so much when it comes to breakfast and good food. If you are carnivorous then its a haven, be ready to hog a spicy oily biryani in the early hours of the day and keep burping n sweatin all day then you're a perfect hyderabadi and one may be proud about it you never know! I pity these non vegetarians!
Most of hyderabad's breakfast items are borrowed from the neigbouring states and it so appears that they've not done a good job. Be it the shabby onion uttapam/dosa (in which 500gm worth of onion is stuffed) or the dry skinny masala dosa!! The Idly are as hard as a brick, the chutneys lack taste and odour, and customer service is at worst ever in the world! they've to be taken to bangalore, beaten up and made to eat the right dosa!
Bangalore has restaurants like Janata hotel, Brahmins Coffee Bar, Veena Stores, Central Tiffin Room, Vidyarthi Bhavan, Roti Ghar, the Adigas Joint, Kamat joint, tens of thousands of darshinis the North Karnataka Special restaurants like Pi retaurant, Nalapaka, Yatrinivas, and concept restaurants like Hallimane, Goudarmane, or be it the outskirts food joints like the ones near maddur n mysore n tumkur!! and I am not talkin about chinese or barbeque or 3star 5 star restaurants or baristas or coffee days etc.,

I miss bangalore for a trillion reasons! No wonder Bangalore is rated to be the best livable city in the entire India and tops at #4 in the best cities to live in the entire Asia!! Cities like Hyderabad is at #29. Kolkata is at #27, Mumbai the worst is at #31 and delhi at #11.

Oh this is Benne Dosa (Butter Dosa) try this if ever you go to bangalore and you would realise what real dosa is :) No offense to you but its the fact! You may feel hurt about me criticizing your city, but you've to see some more cities, eat some more dosas                                                                          


This is the Yummy Rava Dosa!! Sluurrrrp! It'll melt in your mouth, its juicy, aromatic and refreshing!

 Now this is in Chamraj Pet and its one of the oldest of the restaurants! Order a Idli Vada with Butter and I bet you will have your eyes closed in Awe and wonder with what a normal idli vada can do to your taste buds! Now thats what is called Heavely Taste! Even Idli Vadas were coupled in heaven!!

Here comes the king of all dosas the Masala Dosa. Masala Dosas should be crisp, and full of butter or ghee, with the potato curry in the middle while the endoderm of the dosa (inside part) smeared with red chili n garlic chutney!! served with red chilli chutney, coconut chutney and yummy toor dal sambar! Its a delight you would appreciate if you were a real foodie!! If you are a non vegetarian and look down upon the veg food then you arent even a foodie! a foodie should love food. Be it anything. Its a sad part if you are a non- vegetarian, thats secondary.

There are over 1500 type of dosas served in Bangalore if you scout the restaurants!! Target Areas are the clean green old part of the city - Rajajinagar, Mallehswaram, Basveshwarnagar, Vijaynagar, Chamrajpet, Banshankari, Jayanagar, Basavangudi etc., In these areas the air is so clean that you can feel your lungs when you breathe!! Dont believe it? visit once ;) Its still maintained green and ultra clean! Also try Akki Rotti (rice rotti), Raagi Rotti, ucchal chutney, Karabath, chowchow bath in MTR near lalbaugh, Bisibelebath in Adigas, Mosaru Vada (curd vada) in any darshinis of ur choice, dont forget our own traditional Puliogare in the Iyengars hotel, Vangibath (brinjal Rice), Kesari Bath, and not to forget those hundred type of paranthas available!! Visit the Famous UD - Upahara Darshini!! Delight is assured!
To sum up, what makes Bangalore so Beautiful is not just the food or the weather or the opportunities, its the people who've lived there add to all of this! There are people living in Bangalore from all over the world and country, they are living in bangalore still because they are given space in the broad hearts of the Bangaloreans! They better understand and be aware of the Value of it.