indiranagar · bangalore
indiranagar, bangalore
46 places from the bangalore list.
work cafe · indiranagar · ₹₹in 3 guides
DYU Art Cafe
Old Kerala-style house with an open courtyard at the center. The lemonade is the order, the room is the point.
The courtyard is the whole pitch. Sky overhead, plants everywhere, a small bungalow's worth of art on the walls around it.
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Teal Door Cafe
Three floors, brick walls, garden chairs out front, chai served in kulhads. The easygoing Indiranagar work-stop.
Run by women trained out of difficult backgrounds. The staff are the reason the place feels different from the next cafe down the street.
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Yogisthaan Cafe
Shoes-off, voices-down, plants-everywhere ayurvedic spot on the lawn of an old yoga bungalow off 60ft Road.
The rules are the feature. No shoes, no loud talking, low cushions, mostly under trees. You leave calmer than you arrived.
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Blue Tokai
The single-estate roaster you reach for when you want coffee to actually taste like coffee, not foam.
Single-origin Arabica from Indian farms. The pour-over is the order, the cold brew is the consolation if you're in a hurry.
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Subko
The 'I take coffee seriously' room. Small estates from the subcontinent, fine cacao on the side, no soundtrack to fight.
Single-estate program that names the farms. Order the filter or the espresso flight if you want to actually understand the coffee.
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Cafe d'Hide
Small Koramangala 5th Block room with wooden furniture and all-day breakfast. The lighting makes a slow afternoon feel like a decision.
All-day breakfast is the order. Eggs done well, pancakes that arrive warm, none of the brunch theatre.
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Lazy Suzy
Cheery yellow bungalow on 80ft with a tree through the roof. The deli sandwich and chocolate cookie are the order.
The room is the pitch. Yellow walls, blue accents, a tree literally through the ceiling. Sit near it, the photo takes itself.
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Sly Granny
Multi-floor Indiranagar gastropub disguised as a globetrotting grandmother's house. The rooftop is the reason, cocktails carry the rest.
Ask for the rooftop when you book. Twinkling lights, a sunset slot, and the kind of breeze that makes you forget you live in traffic.
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Vapour Brewpub
Rooftop on 100ft with live music most Fridays. The older Indiranagar brewery that doesn't try, just stays open till 1am.
Two floors plus a rooftop. The terrace is where you want to be, especially in the post-monsoon window when the city actually has weather.
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Bumblebee Brauhaus
100ft Indiranagar German brauhaus. Go for the wheat beer and the long tables, skip the menu's North Indian half.
Order the Hefeweizen. That's the one they brew best. The continental and German plates are the right pairing; ignore the multi-cuisine sprawl.
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Mac's Brewhouse
Three Indiranagar floors of beer, tandoor and a dance floor. For nights that need to escalate without changing venues.
Three floors, three energies. Ground for beers, middle for dinner, top for the dance floor when the night turns.
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Bar Spirit Forward
Arijit Bose's 60-seat cocktail bar on Lavelle Road. Teak and granite, omakase-by-the-bar, no place to hide.
Sit at the bar. It's the whole point. A long teak counter where the bartenders work in front of you and explain what they're doing.
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1131 Bar + Kitchen
Three floors on Indiranagar 100ft Road. A golf simulator on one, community seating on the next, cocktails throughout.
Order the Curry Patta vodka cocktail with a rock-salt rim. It's a gimmick that works.
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Bobs Bar
Indiranagar dive on 100ft Road with black-and-white checkered floors, Karnataka food, and pints under a hundred.
The name nods to old Bangalore, when 'Bob' was the vintage equivalent of 'bro'. Checkered tiles, wooden chairs, no music, no apology — built to feel like the city forty years ago.
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Shalimar Bar
46-year-old CMH Road institution with high ceilings, no music, and Mangalorean kori roti that finds its way to every table.
Forty-six years in business, godown-style space, ceiling tall enough to lose conversations in.
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Sarathi Bar
Off 100ft Road in Indiranagar. Mangalorean kitchen with a full bar, neer dosa and butter chicken on every other table.
Budget-friendly by Indiranagar standards, with a kitchen that doesn't cut corners on the Mangalorean things.
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Loft 38
Three-level loft on Indiranagar 100ft Road. Dance floor in the centre, DJ in the crowd, raised seating around the action.
Three floors, raised seating, huge windows. The DJ is set right in the middle of the room, not behind it.
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Hammered
Indiranagar terrace bar built for the youngster crowd. Rainbow Sliders, ₹924 three-course, dramatic wooden ramp to the upstairs.
The three-course at ₹924 all-inclusive is the kind of math that gets a table booked Friday night.
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XooX Brewmill
Koramangala 5th Block factory-conversion brewery. Eight in-house brews across three floors, ceilings tall enough to lose a beer flight in.
Eight in-house beers including a seasonal Red Velvet. Take the sampler before you commit to a pint.
books / quiet · indiranagar
Sapna Book House
Big-box Indian bookstore in Jayanagar and Indiranagar. Useful for textbooks, Kannada titles, and stationery you forgot you needed.
Reliable for school textbooks, regional language reading, and the kind of practical buying that indie shops can't always do.
something different · indiranagar
Escape rooms
Mystery Rooms and Breakout in Indiranagar. 50–60 minute themed rooms, 600–1000 a head, six players is the sweet spot.
Breakout leans cinematic. Movie-styled rooms, heavy production, longer puzzles. Mystery Rooms runs broader themes from heist to haunted.
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Bflat
The Indiranagar live-music room rebuilt for indie nights, jazz sets, and gigs that actually start on time.
Capacity sits in the sweet spot: big enough for a proper band, small enough that you can hear the snare without earplugs.
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The Humming Tree
The Indiranagar indie room that came back in 2026, bigger, with the sound system the old one always deserved.
Programming runs across indie, alt, electronic, and the occasional comedy or theatre night. Check listings; the booking calendar is half the appeal.
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Lahe Lahe
The Indiranagar rooftop where amateur poetry, salsa, pottery, and Tuesday open mics all share the same expression space.
Programming is the appeal: Tuesday poetry, Wednesday music jams, weekend workshops in pottery, dance, painting. Walk in, pick one.
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Bistro Claytopia
Pick a piece of unfired clay, paint it for two hours, eat a sandwich, collect the glazed version in a fortnight.
It's the activity, not the food. The cafe sustains the studio; pasta and pancakes are the bridge between deciding on a colour and applying it.
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Nasi & Mee
Tiny Southeast Asian on Indiranagar's 12th Main. Char kway teow, mapo tofu, mamak mee goreng, queue at 8pm.
Char kway teow is the dish to order; the wok hei reads like street food, not casual dining.
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Chianti
The Indiranagar Italian with the wooden floors and dim corners. Order the aglio e olio, finish with the tiramisu.
Aglio e olio is the test dish; if a kitchen gets garlic-and-chilli pasta right, it can be trusted with anything else.
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Brik Oven
Naples-trained wood-fired pizza on 12th Main. 48-hour sourdough, San Marzano sauce, blistered edges from a 400°C oven.
Margherita is the litmus test. Order it first, judge them on the crust, decide if you're ordering a second.
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Pizza Bakery
Times Food Award pizza four years running on 12th Main. Neapolitan sourdough, the stuffed garlic bread is the move.
Stuffed garlic bread with caramelised onion and mozzarella is the first order, every time. Tiramisu closes it.
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Mezzaluna
The neighbourhood Italian with the retro fittings and the warm waiters who remember regulars by their wine order.
Pizza and pasta are the equal-weight stars; ravioli holds its own against the wood-fired pies.
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Bangalore Bao
A Masterchef contestant's Himalayan bao-and-momo room. Bhutanese veg bao, Thai fish curry bao, the kind of QSR that earns its line.
Chef Mahendra Thulung cooks from a Himalayan lens — Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan all on the menu — which puts this bao room in its own lane on the Indiranagar strip.
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Cafe Grill
The Jeevan Bhima Nagar shawarma joint locals get delivered. Chicken shawarma rolls, double egg rolls, twenty-minute turnaround.
Chicken shawarma roll is the answer to most questions; the double egg roll is the answer to the rest.
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Psiphon Pizza
Roadside thin-crust wood-fired pizza on a 6th Main corner. Base rolled in front of you, ten-minute wait, ₹250 a pie.
Watch the base get rolled and the pie slide into the oven. It's the closest thing to a street-food pizza experience.
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The Filter Coffee
Sit-at-the-counter dosa bar on 80 Feet Road. Paper roast, podi dosa, sambar that's spicier than your grandmother's.
Counter seats face the open dosa griddle; you watch your dosa land and arrive five feet away.
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Natraj Chole Bhature
Old Delhi chole bhature on a 12th Cross corner. Soft cloud bhature, zesty chole, lassi to undo it all.
Order one plate per two people; the bhature are larger than they look, the chole travel further than they read.
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Wanley
Off-100-Feet-Road Chinese run by an actual Chinese family. Checkered tablecloths, dim lighting, chilli chicken under ₹300.
Chilli chicken and greasy fried rice are the order. The menu touches Hong Kong, Szechuan and Hunan; you trust them on all of it.
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Sardarji Da Dhaba
CMH Road North Indian where the butter is generous and the tandoor is real. Order paneer tikka and a roti pile.
Paneer tikka and butter chicken are the safe order; the dhaba pricing keeps everything under ₹500 for two.
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Zama
Middle Eastern kebabs and pide on 100 Feet Road. Wraps that hold their shape, lamb shawarma you eat standing.
Lamb shawarma wrap is the easy order; pides come bubbling, cut into long slices for sharing.
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MISU
Pan-Asian on 12th Main with the penguin-shaped katsu bao and the rainbow dumplings. Small room, big plates.
Order the smokey sausage bao, the sweet potato tempura, and the Hong Kong tofu bao shaped like a penguin.
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The Fatty Bao
The Indiranagar gastro-bar that introduced Bangalore to small plates. Murals, beef bulgogi bao, jungle curry, full bar.
Small plates is the entire approach: order seven, share them, drink through it.
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Taiki
Indiranagar Japanese-Korean that runs till midnight. Ramen and katsu in a room that lets you stay past 11 without the chairs going up.
Sushi platters are the sleeper hit. Ramen and katsu are the workhorses.
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Dofu
Small 100 Feet Road room doing ramen and sandwiches from 8am. The katsu sandwich is the whole reason to walk in.
Chicken katsu sandwich is the move; soft, crunchy, sauce that pools into the bread the right way.
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Lavonne
Bangalore's actual baking school. The ground-floor cafe is where the students' work lands first.
The hot chocolate is the standard, the tarts and entremets are the reason. Order whatever looks newest in the case.
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Glen's Bakehouse
The 60s-style cafe next to Toit. Cheese croissants, quiches, the comfortable middle of Indiranagar.
The cheese croissant and a flat white is the move. Mini tarts if you want something sweet.
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Magnolia Bakery
The Sex and the City banana pudding, in Indiranagar. Order it, take it back to a quieter cafe.
Banana pudding is the reason; everything else is a side quest.
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Black Rabbit
Indiranagar's two-floor pub with the community table downstairs. Cocktails up top, DJ after 9.
The cocktails are stronger than the room suggests. Order something off-menu and they'll usually engage.