Great places to eat out - recommend!

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Originally Posted by Shakthiprabha

CHENNAI CAN stand nowhere near the North Indian delicacies Bangalore offers.

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Incorrect, Bangalore's north indian gravies are horrible - its just another swimming session for a handful of vegetables. Go to a pucca punjabi/marati restaurant if you want good sabzi. Chappathis arent good either.

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Originally Posted by Shakthiprabha

Imagine CHENNAI DOSA, which is sooo greasy.

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Not true. You should see the layer of oil on the masala dosas in Bang. Whenever you dip your dosa piece into the sambhar, you can see the layer of oil mixing with the already colorful-sambhar.

Besides, the fantastic Chennai dish Onion Dosa(freshly diced onions rolled inside the paper thin dosa) is non-existent in Bangalore. Bangalore cant distinguish Onion dosa from Onion Utthaapa(hard as rubber).

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Originally Posted by Shakthiprabha

BTW, Where is this Krishna cafe? (I hear my hus complaining, as such she freaks out in hotels, now she has a hub which advises where to eat and where not :lol: )

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What is a hus? and what is a hub?

Krishna Kafe is in Kora 5th Block. Turn right into 80 feet road from Hosur road(there's a shopping complex called Sunday to monday or something - orange logo - at the mouth of this road). You will find Hutch/Foodworld/musicworld/ICICI on the left and Citibank on the right. Keep going straight, you will get Global Trust Bank, a temple followed by a bus stop. Turn right from the bus stop into 60 feet road. Central bank is on the left. Opposite will be Krishna Kafe on the first floor. Enjoy the rice all over the banana leaf, spoonfuls of ghee, and several mounds of bhaaji placed by the alert waiters officious to your needs. You will get a humongous 4 inch roasted red chilly and mango pickle to go with the buttermilk, 2 types of pappad and some payasam to top it off. A 3'o clock lunch would be ideal so you can eat at leisure. Plus enjoy in silence without the crackpot noise of Jonzie, Darius on Radio City, which is a nuisance all over bangalore. The atmosphere is a bit old fashioned there, without the usual noise, chatter and hustle-bustle of other restaurants.

Talking of ice-creams, one absolutely fabulous place in bangalore!

Cool Joint at Jayanagar 4th block.

Unbelievably exotic variety of delicious ice creams, Sundaes and fruit salads. The icecreams are gorgeous and priced at Rs.25 or so, which is too good. Absolutely ravishing!

Only thing is they pack up from 2-4 PM, ridiculous coz thats the peak time to have ice cream.

And yeah, no doubts about their location. Bang opposite Vijaya Junior College!

////What is a hus? and what is a hub? ////

Hus = husband
hub = forumhub

I never knew I need to explain such common abbr.(NOW DONT ASK ME
WHATS ABBR.)

Kidding, no offense meant.

Thanx for the route. I shall def visit some day. Anyone who is fond of banana leaf kinda food should also try out andra restaurants, they have nice pappu, gongura chutney etc served in banana leaf style. The BEST ONE IS 'Amaravathi' in residency road.

I would NEVER AGREE that north indina food here is BAD. Please refrain from trying out in normal SLV type of hotels or small darshan types. THEY ARE MEANT FOR SOUTH INDIAN FOOD VARIETIES. Trying out in typical north indian hotels which would tell u tales about THE TASTE OF BANGALORE.

For that matter in chennai, in any normal restaurant, the cleanliness is awful and NORTH INDIAN SUBZIs are pure torture to eat. They just sprinkle garam masala and call it NORTH INDIAN FOOD. The reception, customer care etc is much better in Bangalore than in chennai, where, in a typical middle class hotels, we find the employees dressed in dirty clothes and throwing us the food plates with gloomy faces.

Culinary art includes...

Food decor
Good appetizers
Good Starters
Customer(or guest) care
and
the art of HOSTING THE food with a smile.

Any day Bangalore stands way ahead in all of the above.

So much so, TASTES AND PREFERENCES ARE RELATIVE. TRUCE.

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Taking about Icecreams, LAKEVIEW in MGRoad is good
and so is CORNER HOUSE in 9th block Jayanagar.

Prabha[I call you so because there is another Shakthi from Malaysia.],If you are looking for Andhra food,you should certainly try out NANDHINI.But not at their branches in Indiranagar,Koramangala or Gandhinagar.Go to the one Near Lalbaugh.That was the one to open first and still retain the taste.Also try out Gongura on Airport Road at Murgesh Palayam.Amaravati too is very good.But being a 'pakka mallu',I can't be without Kerala food. :wink:

SP/blahblah
I have been to Andhra style places - First and last time! it was the Indiranagar Nandhinis.

What is SLV? Satellite Launch Vehicle? Here today and gone tomorrow restaurant?

BTW, here are reviews of Amaravathi Restaurant on the web. It is really hilarious!!!
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whenever I go, there seems to be very few customers around. The whole crowd of waiters pounce upon you which ultimately ends up making the customer feel very uncomfortable

Waiters will crowd you left, right & center. But still the food is great!

THE QUALITY OF FOOD HAS COME DONE VERY MUCH BUT THE PRICES ARE ON THE HIGHER SIDE.THEIR PRICES ARE HIGH TECH WHILE THEIR SERVICE IS OF THE BUFFALO AGE

The whole world's changing for the better, but this one place is lost in this world. The waiters are literally waiting right next to ur skin and watching your every bite, dont know if their hungry or god knows what.

you should feed the waiters. One fish fry or one chicken fry does not cost much. Also they get off on watching customers eat!

once i saw a dead rat on the sofa and no one bothered

why didn't you eat the rat?
- Amaravathi Manager

Dear Amravathi Manager, Thank you for your advice...I did not want to deprive you of your dinner
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HE HE HE HE HE :rotfl: :rotfl:

I and a Pune-ite friend went to a Blore restaurant and ordered Butter Masala Dosa. After 10 min, waiter said there's no butter. We made it Masala Dosa. After 10 min, No masala either. We finally ordered Plain Dosa after ensuring they atleast had batter.

blahblah,
good to see you finally contributing to the restaurant thread. But of course, your knowledge of restaurants is nothing compared to your knowledge of Lalbagh :lol2: :lol2:

Mmmm....Andhra Food - Food that you can taste with your eyes :cry: :cry: :cry: It's an adv. I came across in Karnataka, Pa!!

Shakthi, paruppillaama kalyaaNamaa? saambaarillaama dOsaiyaa? No chance :evil: We love saambaar vadai & do you know the yummy cute little idlies swimming in saambaar in Saravana Bavan?The name of the dish is "14 idlis". In our ubiquitous Saravana Bavan food is tasty, hot, clean- totally satisfying eating experience- the range is wide- ask it, you have it, Punjabi thaali meals or anything :P

A situation similar to Kambar’s “thOL kaNdaar thOLE kaNdaar” happens at Sangeetha’s( near Trichy central bus stand) in “idli uNdaar idliyE uNdaar”. It is ambrosia: 2 superb idlis(piping hot) placed on the banana leaf surrounded by saambaar(perfect), coconut chutney(excellent), idli podi(ideal), vadakaRi(unique) & tomato chutney(wonderful). We order for it again & again- in spite of the fact that everything else there is also extraordinarily good, be it aappam(typical grandma’s preparartion!), parota or non-greasy roast dosai or parota or chappathis. :D

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Originally Posted by hehehewalrus

blahblah,
good to see you finally contributing to the restaurant thread. But of course, your knowledge of restaurants is nothing compared to your knowledge of Lalbagh :lol2: :lol2:

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:? :? Why you sid that Pal?Can't understand.

Are there any good places -insiders' tips- in Colombo? I don't mean expensive but quality, service, ambience