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Gandhi Bazaar
Basavanagudi's traditional market street, lined with flower and condiment sellers, fruit and cloth shops, temples and long-running eateries such as Vidyarthi Bhavan.
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☕ Independent CafésMavalli Tiffin Rooms (MTR), Lalbagh Road
The flagship of a vegetarian restaurant that began in 1924 and has run from its Art Deco building on Lalbagh Road since 1959. It is widely credited with inventing the rava idli.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesRussell Market
A colonial-era market hall in Shivajinagar, built in 1927 and named after municipal commissioner T B Russell, with vegetable, fruit, meat and fish sections and busy wholesale and retail trade.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesVV Puram Food Street (Thindi Beedi)
A short, pedestrianised stretch near Sajjan Rao Circle lined with vegetarian street-food stalls, sweet shops and juice counters, revamped by the city corporation and busiest in the evenings.
☕ Independent CafésToit Brewpub, Indiranagar
The first outlet of Toit, a brewpub running since 2010 on Indiranagar's 100 Feet Road, pouring its own beers alongside wood-fired pizzas.
☕ Independent CafésCTR (Shri Sagar), Malleshwaram
A vegetarian tiffin room in Malleshwaram dating to the 1920s, also called Shri Sagar, known above all for its butter-laden benne masala dosa.
☕ Independent CafésVeena Stores
A small stand-and-eat breakfast counter on Margosa Road, running since 1977, known for soft idlis, crisp vadas and its runny chutney.
🧭 Unique ExperiencesJohnson Market
A 1929 market complex in Richmond Town, built on land once used as horse stables; most trade now happens on its outer edge, with kebab, biryani and tea spots in the lanes around it.
📚 BookstoresAvenue Road
A crowded trading street through the old Pete, once called Doddapete, where phone, jewellery and textile traders share space with a long-running second-hand textbook trade.
ExperienceVidhana Soudha Guided Walking Tour
Karnataka's legislature building, a granite Neo-Dravidian landmark completed in 1956. KSTDC runs booked 90-minute walks inside on select weekends, covering the Grand Steps and the Assembly area.
🌿 Hidden SpotsDodda Ganapathi Temple
A Basavanagudi temple built around a monolithic Ganesha about 18 ft high and 16 ft wide, beside the Bull Temple with Bugle Rock garden behind. The idol is periodically covered in butter.
🌿 Hidden SpotsSri Dharmaraya Swamy Temple
An old Dravidian-style temple in the Pete dedicated to the Pandavas, Krishna and Draupadi. It is the ritual centre of the Bengaluru Karaga, whose night procession starts and ends here each spring.