Paratha Plaza --- a parathas paradise

Last week, there was a get together in the speech and audio group IISc on the occasion of teachers' day. After the lovely get together, we had to select a place for lunch. While some headed towards Nesara, the restaurant inside IISc campus, some of us headed for Paratha Plaza in Sanjaynagar.

I started eating at this place about 5 years back, and even now, each time I think of it, I look forward to it as ever. This place as the name suggests sells only (veg) parathas, nothing else. Sweet and spicy chutneys, with butter and curd go well with the parathas, none of the usual rich, oily North Indian curries here, these curries are so strong that they will mask the taste of the lovely parathas. I feel you need those strong curries if the parathas are not good enough to be eaten with butter and curd!

I have eaten parathas at quite a few famous places, including Lalithas in Bangalore, including places in Old Delhi, Mumbai, etc but have till date found nothing to beat this. There is a photo of Gautham Gambhir eating parathas at this place near the cashier's desk (a celeb Delhiite eating parathas at a nondescript place in Sanjayanagar is a good enough indication how good it must be!!!)

You get the most mind boggling varieties here, approximately 25 types atleast. All yummy permutation-combinations of potatos, onion, paneer, tomato, gobi, palak, methi, baby corn, sweet corn, chillies, pepper, malai, peas, etc etc. The names of the parathas are very unique, so they 'stick' in your mind.

Some of the favourites are Onion delight(heavenly for people who love onions), 3M-Methi Matar Malai, Aloo.com Potato Onion Peas, Gobi delite Gobi onion tomato, Pepper checker cheese+pepper, 50-50 potato+paneer, good ol' Gobi paratha....the list goes on and on.
Despite the innumerable visits, am yet to try out all of them, the problem is that the ones I have already eaten are so damn good that I almost never feel like trying the others.

Wash all this down with lassi which is excellent. Sweets like jamoon are supposed to be very good, I have never had them...I get good jamoons at many places(KC Das for eg), when in PP, I stick to parathas. I have heard that the omlette is exceptionally good(yeah, egg is served here).

Parathas cost about Rs20-Rs50, a meal for two will cost you a max of Rs 200 (assuming 2-3 parathas per head with butter, curd and lassi).

Update: Earlier the place was in a simple shop kind of shed, where one would go scurring for cover if it rained...now with roaring business(no surprises there) they have moved to a better place right next door.

Location: On Sanjaynagar main road, if you approach from Malleshwaram on BEL road, turn right near Ramaiah hospital on teh 80 feet road, when this hits Sanjaynagar main road, take a left, you see PP on the right side. If coming on new airport road/Bellary road, cross Mekhri circle towards Hebbal and take a left onto Sanjaynagar main road. The place comes before Geddalahalli bus stop on Sanjaynagar on the right side.