Food Bangalore
My taste buds have been very active these days.
I got down from a bus this evening and walked to my house a kilometer away, giving some business to all small eateries on the way. My first pit-stop was to buy a Rs.2 pack of roasted groundnuts from a cart-vendor who usually stood next to a bus-stop. Before I was done with the pack, I arrived at the juice-center I regularly haunt, and asked for a pineapple juice. Next, I paused briefly at a bakery, thinking of buying a Butterscotch Cornetto, but decided to skip it at the last moment. I then visited a nearby tender coconut vendor instead. After coconut, I was keen to stop for a helping of deep fried small vade, but they were not ready yet. My next temptation was sugar canes(not the juice, but cane itself), which have been in my mind for a long time, but gave it a miss too, thinking of the struggle involved in eating it. But I would have loved to be eating all of them – the vade, sugarcane and cornetto.
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I find it hard to give a miss to anything edible that I see these days. Groundnuts have been an old temptation, but pineapple juice is a new craving that started after I had a glass of it at Koshy‘s a few months ago. But my hunger is not limited to street food – I have been restaurant hopping a lot lately.
I went big on eating out only recently, starting by devouring Raviolis at Fiorano a few months ago. More Italian food happened with Little Italy‘s excellent pasta preparations. And then Barbecue Nation‘s grills were appetizing. There was simpler food on the menu too – Shanti Sagar‘s oota, rich with veggies and neer dosa from Emgees have never failed me.
Ice Creams are another temptation I can’t keep off. The ice cream binge started six months ago in Delhi when I ate Butterscotch Pralines at CP’s Saravana Bhavan twice a day for three continuous days. After that, it was fig and honey in Corner House which had me addicted. Discovering Gelatissimo is the highlight of my ice cream raids: their Irish Coffee and Sizzling Brownie Sundae are not easy to resist. But Cream and Fudge failed to make a mark, though there were some expectations before I went there.
No matter what I eat, the good old masala dosa and uddina vade will always remain the favourites. I always end up yearning for these after a few days of exotica, and go for them like I had never seen them before. It has already been a while since I have had a masala dosa. The unusually expensive new menu at South Indies and the waiter’s question – “what gravy would you like to order with dosa” – put me off from ordering one recently. After a go at a large variety of sizzlers at 5 Elements yesterday, I am now looking forward to a good dosa at one of the good old places.