This place has been on my “to- visit” list for a while having heard mixed reviews online but good reviews for the outlet in my area, Indiranagar. I have eaten here multiple times to give a fair review of food and service so here goes:
Breakfast: First visit: A Sunday. Only plain dosa and a vada. Maddening crowd. Avoid weekends. Seating is like wedding style with a long table and food is served on banana leaves. The do have separate tables too but I got the long table one due to the rush. Dosa was crisp. Piping hot crisp vada was the best I’ve had. Excellent coconut and red chutney and sambar. Second time ordered same items but added idli to it. Idli is ok...not as fluffy as the ones you get in South Bengaluru, but everything else was tasty. This time around I went on a weekday. Got a table for myself and could eat in peace.
The lunch meals..baale yele oota: 12.30 pm onwards. Less items, but what was given was good. It was the usual fare of rice, sambar, chapathi, vegetable kootu, lemon rice, kosambari, some kinda potato fries which was really tasty and curd, salt pickle papad. Good, but not great. I wish they had given some other sweet than Payasam. Everything was fresh and tasty but for some reason because of the room cooler or whatever food turned to room temperature real fast. I like my food to be piping hot.
Evening snacks: 4 pm onwards. Bajji platter and paddu. Raw banana bajji, chilli bajji, potato bondas...all were excellent. Potato bondas were awesome. Paddu was good, but I've had better in other places. Again the accompanying chutneys here are really good.
Takeaway: Ven pongal. Best I've had in a while..aroma of ghee very evident. Very tasty and even without re- heating it was still fresh and tasty at night.
They do have a lil shop just off the restaurant selling sweets and savories which I'm yet to visit.
Service: Service is top notch. Whether there's a huge crowd or not, you get served fast and attended to well. Everyone is calm, polite and attentive.
Ambience: Good seating, but not the kind you can chat with a friend for ages. It is very clean and well maintained. It is one of those come, eat and go kind of places unless you go real early on a weekday.
My benchmark for any food place is based on two parameters
1. Would I go again: Definitely. Would go many times. Feels good to get fresh Anna- sambar and great vadas and dosas instead of going all the way to South Bengaluru for this all the time.
2. Would I recommend to others: Yesssss! Do give it a try especially the Indiranagar place. Aim for a weekday though.
Overall rating 4/5
1-No! No! No!
2-Just about average
3- Good. Can give it a try
4-Great!!
5-Yes! Yes! Yes! And I’ll tell all about it.
Details: 050, 80 Feet Rd, 8th cross, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560038. 7 am to 10.30 pm.
