church street · bangalore
church street, bangalore
7 places from the bangalore list.
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Matteo Coffea
The Church Street work-cafe everyone already meets at, with window seats that pour the street into your laptop.
Coffee is fine; the room is the reason. Outdoor tables get fought over by 5pm. Show up before the evening Church Street crowd shows up too.
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Church Street Social
The original SOCIAL on Church Street. Multi-floor, loud, sound-reactive art on the walls, the city's after-11 pivot.
First SOCIAL outlet, always experimental. Sound-reactive neopixel installations, a chewing-gum hammock, art that changes between visits.
books / quiet · church street
Blossom Book House
Three floors, about 200,000 books, an hour minimum. The Church Street stop where you lose track of time.
Used and rare on one of the floors, new releases stacked everywhere else. Ground floor for philosophy and Foucault, top floor for cookbooks and history.
books / quiet · church street
Goobe's Book Republic
An airy basement of crime, sci-fi, travelogues and the odd esoteric thing. Bangalore's best little bookshop, owned by Ravi.
Started in 2009 in the lounge of the Church Street Inn and never lost the lending-library bones. You can still rent rather than buy.
books / quiet · church street
Bookworm
Tidier and more curated than Blossom. Rare editions, signed classics, and a return-for-credit system that rewards finishing.
Around 2,000 antiquarian titles upstairs, including letterpress and signed copies. Ask the staff before you flip anything fragile.
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India Coffee House
Filter coffee in china cups, mutton cutlets, blue walls, uniformed waiters in red turbans. The 1950s preserved on Church Street.
Order the cutlets with ketchup and onion, and a filter coffee without chicory. The combination is the whole point.
something different · church street
Quirq Station
Three-floor curio store on Church Street. Alicia Souza, Paul Fernandes, pop-culture wallets, the perfect 20-minute Blossom-to-Pecos detour.
Stock is curated from local illustrators. Katie Abbey, The Ink Bucket, Card Affairs. The greeting cards alone are worth the stop.