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eat · basavanagudi · ₹ · bangalore
Vidyarthi Bhavan
The 1943 Basavanagudi dose room with red rice in the batter. Masala dose, the bench, the writers who never left.
why we keep going,
The masala dose is the dish. The recipe leans on red rice, methi and urad in proportions that aren't on the wall and aren't getting written down.
Lunchtime queue snakes down Gandhi Bazaar. Go at 7am, or 11, or 3. Not between.
Closed Mondays. The writers' bench corner is real; sit there if you can, eavesdrop without guilt.
local context
Opened in 1943 by Venkatramana Ural, a Udupi native, to feed students of National College and Acharya Patashala; long patronised by Bangalore's writing community.
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