Live to eat...eat to live....
Darn...I wanted to post a lot of pics this weekend but couldn't. I had a very important chat session scheduled and it didn't happen. All b'coz BESCOM went chop chop, not even bothering to check if the wires they were cutting were Cable TV or Cable internet ones. This whole thing is such a fiasco. For the un-enlightened, here is what happened: Some kid got electrocuted and died last week, thanx to a stray cable TV wire (which I suppose was in contact with a live wire). Lot of people shed tears for this kid, and BESCOM, the company that supplies electricty to Karnataka, decided to distract the general public (who were very pissed off with them) by cutting down Cable TV/Internet wires which were being routed over its poles. Last I heard, BESCOM and the cable TV operators association signed a peace treaty and the wires are being fixed. But what the heck..I DIDN'T HAVE INTERNET WHEN I WANTED IT THE MOST. Grrr...
I have been eating a lot of chaat lately. Sandeep and myself have religiously sampled a lot of eat-outs, and our findings are listed here for the benifit of all you desi junk food eaters:
1) Starting from close to home, 17th cross Malleshwaram has a roadside chaat wala whose stuff kicks ass. Although the menu there is low on variety, it is high on taste. His Sev puri and Harsinbele chaat are as good as patentable.
2) Sheshadipuram has two well known chaat shops. One is the Gullu's chaat, which according to me is a bit expensive. If you wanna go there, just ask anyone around Sheshadripuram (might be hard to locate 'coz it is not on the main road). But go there only if you have a chick to impress or a mommy who is paranoid about eating out in dingy roadside places. The other chaat guy is exactly that - kind of dingy and by the roadside. His stuff is not exactly avant garde, but people flock his bandi like flies to stale chaat...err... bees to honey. After taking up this project of checking out the best chaat places in the city, I have come to understand that Bangaloreans can be easily satisfied. A popular menu guarantees easy crowd, regardless of taste. (read as: you should be thanking me for this list coz you can't go by the crowd a place attracts)
3) Staying in Sheshadripuram, there is a lesser known chaat shop on the road opposite the petrol bunk (near Railway Parallel road). This guy's Paani Puri is fantastic, and his large North-Indian customer base is testimony to that. Dahi puri is also good, but I can't comment on the other items on the menu coz I havent tasted them.
4) The chaat guy near Safina plaza has been mentioned in my blog before, so his stuff is already legendry. His version of Bhel-puri is debatable, but the purists have to agree that it tastes great in its own uniqueness. Even the indegenious tomato chaat will have purists updating their receipe books.
5) M.G road sadly lacks good chaat eat-outs. If you are somewhere around there and need to eat good chaat desperatley, the only place you can head to is Anand Sweets. It is off Residency Road, beyond that end of Brigade road that leads to Sparks. All chaat there is good, and you can even smell the whiff of hygiene in them. Do finish off with a glass of cold Badam milk - it is a must have!
6) Last on this list is a place in Kormangala. I am not familiar with that part of Bangalore, so I won't be able to give an exact location. Nevertheless, this place ROCKS! Run by a family of Biharis, all the items on the menu are first-class. You gotta eat there to understand what I mean. With a menu that has enough variety to ensure that you won't be able to taste everything without frequenting here, this place is easily the best among all listed here.
Bon Appetit!
I have been eating a lot of chaat lately. Sandeep and myself have religiously sampled a lot of eat-outs, and our findings are listed here for the benifit of all you desi junk food eaters:
1) Starting from close to home, 17th cross Malleshwaram has a roadside chaat wala whose stuff kicks ass. Although the menu there is low on variety, it is high on taste. His Sev puri and Harsinbele chaat are as good as patentable.
2) Sheshadipuram has two well known chaat shops. One is the Gullu's chaat, which according to me is a bit expensive. If you wanna go there, just ask anyone around Sheshadripuram (might be hard to locate 'coz it is not on the main road). But go there only if you have a chick to impress or a mommy who is paranoid about eating out in dingy roadside places. The other chaat guy is exactly that - kind of dingy and by the roadside. His stuff is not exactly avant garde, but people flock his bandi like flies to stale chaat...err... bees to honey. After taking up this project of checking out the best chaat places in the city, I have come to understand that Bangaloreans can be easily satisfied. A popular menu guarantees easy crowd, regardless of taste. (read as: you should be thanking me for this list coz you can't go by the crowd a place attracts)
3) Staying in Sheshadripuram, there is a lesser known chaat shop on the road opposite the petrol bunk (near Railway Parallel road). This guy's Paani Puri is fantastic, and his large North-Indian customer base is testimony to that. Dahi puri is also good, but I can't comment on the other items on the menu coz I havent tasted them.
4) The chaat guy near Safina plaza has been mentioned in my blog before, so his stuff is already legendry. His version of Bhel-puri is debatable, but the purists have to agree that it tastes great in its own uniqueness. Even the indegenious tomato chaat will have purists updating their receipe books.
5) M.G road sadly lacks good chaat eat-outs. If you are somewhere around there and need to eat good chaat desperatley, the only place you can head to is Anand Sweets. It is off Residency Road, beyond that end of Brigade road that leads to Sparks. All chaat there is good, and you can even smell the whiff of hygiene in them. Do finish off with a glass of cold Badam milk - it is a must have!
6) Last on this list is a place in Kormangala. I am not familiar with that part of Bangalore, so I won't be able to give an exact location. Nevertheless, this place ROCKS! Run by a family of Biharis, all the items on the menu are first-class. You gotta eat there to understand what I mean. With a menu that has enough variety to ensure that you won't be able to taste everything without frequenting here, this place is easily the best among all listed here.
Bon Appetit!
[Listening to: When Push Comes to Shove - Grateful Dead ]
woofed by Big Dog nidrajiva at 3:00 PM
1 Comments:
there's a huge chaat joint (more like a chaat bazaar) near majestic/national market. i think the joint is called sukh sagar. not great chaat, but wide choice, good ambience and hygiene.
nice, exhaustive write-up. you seem to have taken a lot of trouble for the sake of thorough research ;)
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