Sunday, September 13, 2009

Temples around Bangalore

Ramanjaneya Temple, Hanumantha Nagar.
Basavana Gudi ( Bull Temple)/Ganapathi temple, Bull temple road.
Sree Varapada Venkateswar Devagiri Temple,Banashankari II stage.
Ragigudda Anjaneya temple, JP Nagar
Meenkashi Temple, Bannerghatta road. Gaali anjaneya temple, Mysore road.
Maruthi Mandira, Vijayanagar.
ISKCON, Yashwantpur/Rajajinagar.
Prasanna Veeranjaneya Swamy Temple,Mahalakshmipuram
Gavi Gangadhareshwara Swamy Temple, Srinagar

(Inconclusive)

The eat outs in B'lore

The famous few eat-outs that I visited in Bangalore.

SLV Coffee Bar at Banashankari II stage,
A small canteen opposite, Sree Varaprada Venkateswar Devagiri Temple, Famous for Idlis/ Dosas.

Vidyarthi bhavan
Gandhi Bazaar.
A famous udupi style hotel, with special Masala Dosa (The speciality also lies in the way they bring the dosa to serve!)

VV Puram, the chat lane.
A lane that has different chats, Dosa, Holige.

A2B Adyar Anand Bhavan
Near Udupi garden, BTM
Modern style south Indian hotel :)

Brahmins Cafe
Near Sringeri Mutt, ChamrajPet
Idli with chutni, and delicious coffee

Upahara Darshini
DVG Road, near Netta kallappa Circle

UD, Upahara Darshini
4th Block
Vegetable Roll Dosa and many more!

Barbecue Nation
Near Shankara Netralaya, JP Nagar
Buffet Lunch unlimited food! More of a non vegetarians heaven, but vegetarians too can have stomach full food!

The Treat
80 ft road, Indiranagar
Chinese restaurant

Nandhini
100 ft road, near airport road flyover,
Domlur

Inchara - Family Restaurant
Puttenahalli Main Road, JP Nagar
One of the best Restaurant, but costwise, on the higher end.

Spice Curry
80Ft Road, Indiranagar
Our Company Backyard, most of the parties happen here. Pretty reasonable price, good food.

Tamarind Restaurent
Ramamurthy Nagar Outer Ring Road Junction
Friends b'day party with our team, okay kind of restaurent.

pick n move
Near East End Circle, Bannerghatta road.

Gandharva Sip and Dine
AttiGuppe, Vijaya Nagar

Parivar
Jayanagar 4th Block

Khansama, UB City, Vittal Malya Road
Our US managers threw a lunch buffet party to the whole team. The royal indian master chef as the tag line reads, the lunch was pretty nice and the royal ambience was the catch for the eye. Rs 300+ buffet lunch was very good considering the location.

Khandani Rajdhani, Ek khandani parampara
UB City - Canberra Block, Vittal Malya Road
Gujarathi, Marwari and Rajasthani style vegetarian lunch is the famous on the menu. Rajdhani Meal boxes are also very well known. The new company joining was the occasion, the development manager played the host. The meal costs Rs. 250+(lunch) Rs.325 (dinner)

Maiya's 4th block, Jayanagar
From the people who made the MTRs, the much organized south indian restaurant. We went for a special south Indian meals. Priced at Rs.135(as on 29 Sept 2010) it has menu that one can expect from a south indian marriage ooTa :) Starting with a honey kesar juice to poori koorma to pulav - white rice -sweet - ice cream - paan. A clean and a wonderful experience. Book in advance @ 9632411352
(Inconclusive)

Toscano, The italian restaurent
UB City - Canberra Block, Vittal Malya Road
With our senior manager the development team went to this Italian restaurent. On the upper side of the price, the menu had all the italian dishes like salads, macaroni, pizza, deserts. Nice for a try, but a bit costly (per head around Rs.550)

Muthyala Maduvu (ಮುತ್ಯಾಲ ಮಡುವು Pearl Valley)

Saturday, 12, September 2009 3:00pm

An unplanned Bike ride to Muthyala Maduvu, Near Anekal.

Having finished the Krishna Janmastami celebration at my aunts place, got a call from friends for a bike ride to Bannerghatta. We didn't had a plan as to where to go from there. Passerby told a place called Muthyala maduvu around 15km from there. Having got a destination now, we continued our journey, on the Bannerghatta-Anekal State Highway. After 20km we reached Anekal and there on about 6 km we reached Muthyala Maduvu(We have a take detour on a main road after 3km).

It was surprising to see a small valley near Bangalore. We have to climb down 200steps to reach a small water fall. As the rains were low the water fall is reduced to a small shower. But for us, it was good fun to spend some valuable time. The rock formation behind the fall was also nice. Spending around an hour and visiting the temple there, we were back on our bike.

We took the Anekal, Chandapur, Electronic City(Hosur Road - 37km) route to reach our room at 7:30pm. The traffic/dust on Hosur road was only the disappointing thing in the whole journey.

VV puram
Our long pending plan to visit VVPuram saw its light of day finally. On returning from Pearl valley, after traffic confusion, we reached there at 8:00 pm. It was like a Jathre, different varieties of food was available in different canteens(It is also called ತಿಂಡಿ street). We had hot masala dosa, thaTTe idli and holige.

"Zindagi Migzara", afghan like to say - Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end, ups or downs*

Transport : My Pulsar 150, Yamaha FZ16
We : Jaanesh, Me, Mote, RV
Distance : Covered 90km

*The Kite Runner, Khaleid Hosseini