I have been in Bangalore for now close to 2.5 years and my wife’s been here 25!, yet we hadn’t heard of this place until a couple of months back, courtesy our friends – Sriram and Pranitha.

After getting back to Bangalore from our Himalayan trek, they recommended this as a place to savor the delights the southern civilization had to offer:). Though at that time we chose to visit Nagarjuna’s in Jayanagar, come this Independence day, we decided to have a showdown with Krishna Cafe.

Location

Koramangala 5th Block, Next to GK Vale, on top of Kairali..

Ambience and Service

The place is neat, clean and hygenic and the service has been very very prompt and good on all days that we have been there. Even when the place is exceptionally crowded (which it is on most days), I have found the service to be very prompt!

The Food -  “Core” offering of this place

“Smack you lips” delights! Awesome awesome food! Infact, it is the best south indian restaurant we have been to in bangalore…we have been to a lot of darshans and sagars and to Vidhyarthi Bhavan  in Basavanagudi (supposedly the best dosa place in bangalore) … but man this place is special!

The idlis are hot and so soft; the paper roast is huge and crispy to the core. The accompaniments, three of them – coconut chutney, tomato/onion chutney and sambhar – are fresh and exquisite in taste! The sambhar is perfect in taste – pretty much the one I grew up on . He has all other good stuff like Kanchipuram idlis, Rava idli, and the list goes on….the coffee is delicious as would be expected after all the amazing delights he serves.

The other great thing we liked about this place is that Krishna Cafe has a different menu every evening featuring select south indian delicacies. e.g. on Sunday evenings he serves Idiappams (or Sevai as I know it and one of my utmost favorites) with Cocunut Milk or Morkuzhambu! Yummy!

The standard stuff deliciously made- idlis, dosas and vadas -  coupled with other special south indian delicacies makes this joint a veritable foodie delight! We went to this place first on Aug 15 and since then have already been there 10+ times:)

Anyone who has not been there, is missing out big time!