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Corner House @ Bangalore

Although the nights are still cold in Bangalore, sunny days are coming soon, indicates the bright and sultry late afternoons. I feel this is the apt time to acknowledge that im a dead slave :).. yes really im a DEAD SLAVE.. sounds like a oxymoron? death means independence and how can be one a dead slave.. oh..oh.. ok. lets just stop it ter.. PERIOD.. no more digging in to those heavy subjects, that makes the part above my neck to tremble.. this blog is for the parts below my neck :) (செவ்விக்குணவு இல்லா பொழுது சிறிது வயிற்றுக்கும் ஈயப்படும்.. நம்ம விஷயத்துல இது தலைகீழ்.. sorry to non tamilians)

Hope ardent foodies like my wud have guessed abt what im blabbering about.. yeah..!!.. im talking abt those 'Hot Chocolate fudge' and 'Death by Chocolate Sundae' served at the Corner House.

For the first time i went ter, i was already flooded with tips abt handing the chocolate death.. but, as usual at the last second, i ordered for a Hot Chocolate fudge.. the second i tasted it, thats it, they made me sign a life time deed.. im going to be a slave for it, for ever.. for ever.. Im still hunting to all other possible ice cream parlors to find a best master who cud release me from this culprit and take this slave to his behest,, but alas, i cud never find a master who cud make me sign a Slave deed.. :)

the very next day i was forced to get in to Corner house and this time i ordered for the Death. Death By Chocolate (DBC) is the famous giant size package u get in corner house.. it was the cause for the death of the slave.

DBC is a great composition, just like that of 'Saleel choudrys' melodies.. It consists of three big, really big, scoops of our very own regular vannila ice cream, with lot of thick black forest cake spread over it. This composition is soaked with lavish amount of chocolate sauce, which is topped with cherries. The trap here is u can order for extra chocolate sauce also, which will give u a complete death, so u dont want to lice again one more 'Jenmam'.

When the death is presented before me after all the above arrangements, i just stared at it for some time before taking a first bite, where to start ... I took the first bite.. that was like peeping in to heaven, creamy vannila on black forest or black forest coupled with the vannila, wat ever it may be.. it was heaven, slowly the subsequent bites, chocolate takes you for granted.. the whole things looks brown and the black forest and vannila is submerged in the chocolate sauce now. your intake speed is slowed down now.. after the first spoon, u just feel like gulping the whole thing in one go, but every next spoon relaxes you and gives a soothing effect, you feel like finishing that whole thing is going to be a tough exercise.. but, i finished that of with determination.. i just felt satisfied like 'smelling the greens and feeling the breeze at the peak after having a tough trek'.

I bet, if you are taking your partner for a first date ter, then ter are lot of chances for that casual date to turn out in to a romantic dating... i warn u, dont ever blame DBC for ur lifelong worries then :)

dont ever go to corner house, if u are in a hurry .. the one more thing, dont ever go ter after ur meal.. go with empty stomach and when u have lot of time.. make time after all for our soul. You feel little high after having DBC, like the highlanders best scotch.. so dont ever rush out and get in to the mad traffic untill it settles down..

I have been to Corner house in MG/residency road, koramangala and Jayanagar.. i felt the MG road and jayanagar places are too best.. they have couple of more outlest in bangalore.. but man.. even if the ambiance is not well.. served menu will summon you to heavens..

Kebab Magic @ RV Road & East End

The one great place for chicken lovers is kebab magic. I have been to their east end branch, but my frequent is the one in RV road opp to vijaya college. The place is most famous for takeaways, i used to find the ppl standing in Q's on Friday/Saturdays nights to takeaway their fav. rolls. grill chickens and kebabs. This is a fast food chain run by some mallu Uncle, who claims they specialise in Arabic tastes - agreed, the chicken rolls they make are really more Arabic.

The Executive Biriyani' which they serve mostly during lunch time is a big hit. You can see lot of executives, who roam all along the city braving the sun, smoke and traffic, hit this place for lunch, I hav seen both east end and RV road branches filled with marketing executives, college kids and nearby techies flocking arnd for lunch(you can find lot of ppl from sonata software in the RV road eatery).

Executive biriyani consists of Biryani rice, one Parota, one chicken leg piece, one pice of chicken 65, one boiled egg, and a glass full of Grape juice. The combination provides full justice to the hungry stomach and also the wallet - thats the main part to be left satisfied for most of the executives - this combo comes for just Rs:55/-. Only the veggie executives are left with no choice here :0.

The other best thing you get here in the evenings are the different chicken rolls..'Shawarma' rolls are their speciality. Chicken and butter shows no difference in a tasters mouth.. they give a juicy feel and melts in you throat. Man. their rolls are really grt!. Every time i taste their rolls, i cant control of 'waanaa more' thing..

Usually i spent some minutes watching the chef in action. Chicken is hung in some vertical rod and they are slowly roasted as it is rotated. The trained chef chops off some minute bits of the slow roasted flesh and adds some spices and onion to it, thats it the main part is ready. Then he takes the smooth waffer like roti, lavishly puts some butter on it, weave it all along the roti, put the main part over that and the roti is rolled up. here comes your 'rolls' - delicious.

They also serve the famous Grill chickens, though this is quite decent here, i feel there is a still more better place to have those Full grills, will write about that soon.

ClayPot @ Maruthi Nagar

Madiwala area in Bangalore is bachelor heaven, one can find lot of small, cheap, tasty, diverse - all Tamil, kerala, andhra, bengali, orissa, punjabi - eateries there. Mostly every thing is flocked with the IT bachelors.

One of those for keralite speciality cuisine is Claypot - i still wonder why most of the mallu restaurants have a stylish english names in contrast to tamil or andhra eateries which are usually named as 'bhavan/mess'. Ok. let the name may be in English or Latin.. we dont give a damn care abt that.. until our taste buds are happy. :)

Clay Pot os a real real small restaurant in the mid of maruthi nagar layout. The parattos they server are great, the real kerala paratoota swinged in air, to give a smooth finishing :). They are really 'spongy'.. so soft.. The first thing that makes you refreshing is that mild warm 'jeeraga vellam', Man!! after struggling the day with chai's from vending machines and smoke filled signals you come and sit here, just have a sip of warm jeeraga vellam.. you are all set to treat your taste buds and fill your belly without burning your wallet.

The Chemmeen roast - prawn roast - they make is delicious, as it arrives to your table the aroma of coconut oil spreads in air along with the masalas, I bet no soul on the earth - who likes mallu food - can complain about ClapyPot. The very traditional karimeen pollichchattu is at its best here.

I started with parottas and chemmen roast, gulped them almost like a starving dog :), then i ordered for couple of appams with kerala chicken curry.. that was a meal from heaven. For all these heavenly made dishes -for two- it was some 175 bucks.. JUST 175 bucks.. @ a cost of a redubull boss..

The appams wer good, but the porratos with chemmen roast made my day. If you are a veggie, you have a option of 'kadalai curry' - chenna or kerala veg curry too.

Really a cool place to have ur daily dinner, ofcourse if you luv kerala cusine. :)

Inchara - JP Nagar

Do you live in the highrised apartments of JP nagar 'n'th phases, you feel sick to drive along the ring roads to find a cool eatery, do you get frustrated with the traffic to cut across the city and reach MG road / residency road for a pleasant drink/dinner.. here is the best choice INCHARA.

Of course this is a very popular multi-cuisine restaurant in JP nagar, still there are people who dont know about this. This is a cool place - a garden restaurant - with lot of greens and shrubs all around, a fountain, a pretty large aquarium.. sounds interesting rite? You get an option of sitting in candle light or in isolated areas under tiled roofings..

Imagine sitting in a isolated place, with your best company, and having a sip of you fav drink.. just a minute drive from the traffic infested ring roads.. i swear, u'll forget all those curses that flooded in your ears while zipping the traffic :)

I wud say, dont try to explore or experiment with the menu here.. the service is quite slow.. so opt for regulars, buter naans, chilli chicken, dal makhni.. they will never disappoint you.

after all those greens, fountains and lightings they too have a miserable points those plastic chairs.. i dont know how they zeroed down with that.. it sort of gives a feel like you are sitting in some cheap restaurant, but again the tail wagging tropical fish in the aquarium cheers you up.

Just when u r returning from ur workplace with all those plastic smiles and pre-defined cheers, to ur highrises, just get in to inchara, stroll along the greens stand aside the aquarium get a place under the mangalore tiles, order for ur drink.. BOSS.. thats heaven.. thats heaven.. :)

Inchara is in the puttenhalli main road, toward those brigade high rises from the ring road, before the lake.

Copper Chimney

If you are with a good company, some were near MG road, residency road.. thinking of having a lovely dinner.. the best choice is Copper Chimney - the one in the fifth floor in the Bangalore Central Shopping Complex.

The best part that strikes you once u enter this place is the ambiance.. If u are lucky enough to get a place by the glass windows, facing the MG residency road stretch.. i bet u, thats going to be your ever unforgettable date ;)

Punjabi food is at its best here, but of course, not the best in the City (sounding politically correct?) Kebabs here wont disappoint you and the biriyani too.. The lahori chicken i tried was also good.

If u want to spend a memorable evening and quite a decent North-Indian food, then, copper chimney is the Best place in the town.

Though a foodie, like me, who just wanders in the street fighting hard to satisfy his taste buds, will not be satisfied with all those ambiance, pleasant waiters and amazing utensils :).

Kamat - bugle rock

If u long for real north karnataka veg food and jowar rotis, the best place in south banalore is Kamat - bugle rock. They do serve north indian and chinese, but north karanataka food is at its best here. The whole second floor is reserved for that. There is a stage where classical music concers are held, which can accomadate a decent 30+ ppl, mostly who waits for the turns to get a table. :)

Jowar meals is the speciality here. they are served in plantain leaves. As u enter the place, u'll be recieved by a ever smiling hostess in a traditional silk saree.. cool hostess in hi-fi bangalore. The waiters are ver friendly.

Meals is served course after course, they start with Jowar rotis, yennegai and a brinjal curry, accompanied by salads, raitas and palya. Main course comes with white rice (karnataka ponni) drumstick sambhar and rasam. Not like other unlimited meals serving places, here the waiter keep an eye on ur table and refill everything in a astonishing pace :).

spl. meals comes with some extra dessers usually a holige, bajji குடைமிளகாய் பஜ்ஜி and to windup we have fruit salad with ice cream. then comes banana and paan in very traditional style. damn! u feel like heaven after having a full stomach, on a lazy afternoon.

The place is in Basavanagudi, just diagonally opposite to BMS engg college, next to Bull temple.

Dont ever take your date here.. tis is a place for lazy afternoons with family or friends, ur date may not feel romantic here :)

A delux north karanataka meals at about 100rs in this peaceful place is a delight for sure.

Bombay Post @ Carlton towers

Bombay Post is a ideal post for eating out with a group of friends. It just flies u back to the era of 60s, the posters all over - Dev anand, nargis.. the soothing melodies of rafi-ji, man this is a great place to enjoy mumbai's authentic cusine. There is lot of place of privacy here. The whole place is charming and warm.

You get a fresh-clean sugarcane juice from their kithcen. They have baida rotis and chaats as veggi starters and great kababs and batti ka chop for we non-veggies too.

My fav for the main course was chicken patiala with kulchas. I have heared the panner here is too gud, havn't tried till now, hav to.. next time. but his chicken patiala always wins :). The dum biriyanis they serve, both chicken and veg are sure worth trying.

They have a lot of dessers, yeah kulfi's too.

Bombay Post,
Carlton Towers,
1, Airport Road,
Bangalore,

Krishna cafe - Bannerghatta road

If you are a veggie and also a tamilian, then Krishna cafe is the best bet u can get in bannerghatta road, bangalore.

Its a simple meals served in banana leaves, dont expect cozy comforts here, just basic table-chair setup with 'get token for meals' set up, no ceramic/chinaclay utensils just our very own stainless steel evey where. Grab your token, get a place, clean the leaf with water as any
other south indian and start having your feast.

The servers in their traditional veshtis / dothis are quite generous in offerin rice :). They have two dry vegetable dishes பொரியல், one kootu கூட்டு [thick gravy made with vegetables and dal]. a good appalam accompanied with மோர்மிளகாய் roasted 'dried chilli soaked in butter milk' accompanies the veg curries along the corner of the banana leaf.

Then comes the main course along with the unlimited rice - you have all choices that are essential for a tamilian feast, sambhar பருப்பு சாம்பார், kaarakkozhambu /vaththakozhambu காரக்குழம்பு, curd curry மோர்க்குழம்பு and rasam. dont miss any of them, plan your rice to
accomodate all four dishes, i swear, they are yummy. you can finish off with curd - curd and rice as a southie or curd with sugar in pure northi style.. the choice is yours, but dont forget they have mouthwatering fresh pickles, so try rice and curd, you will never get dissappointed.

Apart from this regular meals, they have a deluxe meals, it comes with additional pulav வெஜிடபிள் பிரியானி with some fresh chips / varuval வறுவல் (சேனக்கிழங்கு / உருளைக்கிழங்கு).

hey! i forgot to mention the desert, the delicios jaggery payasam. If you more long to get the traditional taste, dont get that in cups, pour them to the curd-rasam sticking banana leaf and take them in your hand.. boss..! its like having a marriage feast in south.. once u finish the meal u tend to hear some gossips, as usually in marriage halls. the food gives the same feel :)

A complete feast for 65/75 Rs... good one.

you can see lot of tamil folks hanging around with vikatans and kalkis.. so there is a chance to stumble upon a tamil belle :) All the best Guys!!

Dosa corner - Jayanagar

being a southindian, i feel its perfect to start this blog with my dosa hunt. :)

Bangalore is really a Dosa paradise, you can step in to any of the Darshinis/sagar over the corner and you can get a decent dosa [i still prefer to call it as dosai]. But still perfect dosa's need a hunting. :)

Dosa corner - a small food joint in Jayanagar 3rd block is a cool place to have perfect Dosas. Its really a small place and you can see crowd spilling all over the pavements during weekend evenings. Lot of maamis and mamasa with their kids along with a huge lot of college goers flock this place.

Its not a pricey glossy place, prices are cheap and dosas are simple. yet yummy!! The bad part here is the crowd, if u want to have a dosa on a saturday evening, you have to wait patiently for atleast 10-15 minitues in Q.
No longer only the traditional potato filling, but of paneer, cauliflower, beetroot, avarekalu, etc are in race with the potato masala dosas.There would be more than 15 stuffings of the choicest
fillings displayed on the menu prominently. They are worth for the 15 mins waiting.

the next time you visit Jayanagar BDA or 4th block for shopping spend some time with those piping hot dosas.

mm.. yeah.. They also serve excellent holiges ( இனிப்பு ஒப்புட்டு)

Tasting.. err.. Testing :)

Cmng soon..!!