Food Street

Top choice in Bengaluru (Bangalore)


For a local eating experience, head to VV Puram, aka Food Street, with its strip of hole-in-the-wall eateries cooking up classic street-food dishes from across India. It's quite a spectacle, with rotis being handmade and spun in the air and bhajia (vegetable fritters) dunked into hot oil before packed crowds.

It’s an all-vegetarian affair, with a range of dosas, idli (fermented rice cakes), Punjabi-style snacks and curries, and Mumbai chaat (savoury snack).


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