A few weeks back, I was introduced to this new term called "Dosa Hop". :) It literally means, hopping from one dosa joint to another, eating as many masala dosas as possible, in a single day. As such, thinking about masala dosas, if they were to be made at home, we could easily gobble down 3 or 4 dosas, and maybe more. However, if it has to be from a hotel (to be precise, from Bangalore's old favourites, which generously add dollops of butter and spoonfuls of oil to the dosas they dish out), it is quite a task to digest even one dosa on one day. Keeping this in mind, a group of friends went dosa hopping, and after a successful attempt, passed on the idea to us!!
We had a few dosa crazy people around the day this idea was passed on to us, and hence there was made a decision. Let's go dosa hopping this saturday! :P Yay! (Before any of you start worrying about how I could think of achieving this feat, I had already made up my mind - Dosa hopping was not my thing. I would go coffee hopping instead, and grab a few interesting pictures).
So we headed straight to CTR - Central Tiffin Room - Malleswaram - one of the old favourite breakfast joint of Bangaloreans, on Saturday morning. At 10 am, we were served the first dosas of our day. Hmm. So the three of the dosa hop participants were super enthusiastic and wiped clean their dosas. The dosa was nice and buttery and the chutney here was not spicy at all. The coffee ofcourse was awesome, as it usually is in any of these breakfast places at Bangalore.
After a few minutes of passing time and chatting, we headed to Janata hotel which is just two lanes down! This is another favourite I hear. The trio grabbed another plate of dosa each around 11:30 am. This time two of them stuck to plain dosa, while the most enthusiastic of all stuck to his masala dosa order. So after two dosas and another coffee, we had a few more friends who joined us, and we headed to a park where the kids could play, so that we had a few hours break in between before we headed for another dosa stop.
The third stop was at Vidyarthi Bhavan at 5 pm in the evening. This joint is at Gandhi Bazaar, in the middle of all the hustle and bustle of flower sellers, fruit vendors, and whatever not. This place always reminds me of Chennai's T.Nagar. Being the eve of Janmashtami, the vendors had a busy time dealing with bargaining customers. We headed straight into VB, where we experienced the way the waiter balanced atleast 15 plates of dosa on one hand. It was time for three more masala dosas :). The VB dosa is again brushed with awesome amounts of oil and butter. The chutney here is pretty hot, which is how most of the Bangaloreans like it.
So, are we done for the day? Yes!! Three dosas are all we can take. Let's go home and rest our tummies awhile:).
We had a few dosa crazy people around the day this idea was passed on to us, and hence there was made a decision. Let's go dosa hopping this saturday! :P Yay! (Before any of you start worrying about how I could think of achieving this feat, I had already made up my mind - Dosa hopping was not my thing. I would go coffee hopping instead, and grab a few interesting pictures).
So we headed straight to CTR - Central Tiffin Room - Malleswaram - one of the old favourite breakfast joint of Bangaloreans, on Saturday morning. At 10 am, we were served the first dosas of our day. Hmm. So the three of the dosa hop participants were super enthusiastic and wiped clean their dosas. The dosa was nice and buttery and the chutney here was not spicy at all. The coffee ofcourse was awesome, as it usually is in any of these breakfast places at Bangalore.
After a few minutes of passing time and chatting, we headed to Janata hotel which is just two lanes down! This is another favourite I hear. The trio grabbed another plate of dosa each around 11:30 am. This time two of them stuck to plain dosa, while the most enthusiastic of all stuck to his masala dosa order. So after two dosas and another coffee, we had a few more friends who joined us, and we headed to a park where the kids could play, so that we had a few hours break in between before we headed for another dosa stop.
The third stop was at Vidyarthi Bhavan at 5 pm in the evening. This joint is at Gandhi Bazaar, in the middle of all the hustle and bustle of flower sellers, fruit vendors, and whatever not. This place always reminds me of Chennai's T.Nagar. Being the eve of Janmashtami, the vendors had a busy time dealing with bargaining customers. We headed straight into VB, where we experienced the way the waiter balanced atleast 15 plates of dosa on one hand. It was time for three more masala dosas :). The VB dosa is again brushed with awesome amounts of oil and butter. The chutney here is pretty hot, which is how most of the Bangaloreans like it.
So, are we done for the day? Yes!! Three dosas are all we can take. Let's go home and rest our tummies awhile:).
4 comments:
My mouth has been watering with the mere mention of the term "Dosa Hopping"! And your pictures and descriptions have intensified my longing for crispy buttery masala dosas! You should have eaten on my behalf! :). You could have managed 3 dosas in one day for sure! ;)
Are you kidding me :) haha.
Anyway, next time you are here, let's put this on our " to do " list :) .. am sure you will enjoy the dosas they dish out here.
This would have been so much easier in Denver. We have only 2 places that serve Dosa as it is ;). what was the place we went to on my soul searching, crammed in the bus, Bengaluru trip? I think they had awesome coffee too. I need to make a trip to B'lore next time I come to India.
That was MTR da. :) please come down. i wish we could do the same sort of "only us" trip around the place... and not just for a day :P
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