late-night food · basavanagudi · bangalore
VV Puram Food Street
A 150-metre lane in Basavanagudi lined with twenty stalls. Thindi Beedi after 7pm, walk it once and order at three.
why we keep going,
Holige, masala dosa, gobi manchurian, jalebi. The Avarekai Mela in December is the calendar event.
Strictly vegetarian. Cash, plastic stools, paper plates. Don't dress up.
Best between 7:30 and 10pm. After 11 the stalls start packing down.
local context
The lane has been a food street since the mid-1960s; the Vaishya community that settled around Sajjan Rao Circle built it into Bangalore's Thindi Beedi.
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