Vada Pav in JP Nagar

Earlier this week, we had left office early planning to return by BMTC Volvo bus and as we neared the Jayanagar 5th block stop on inner ring road, Satish asked us if we were interested in eating vada pav. I have not eaten particularly good ones in Bangalore, and hearing so many praises of this street side eatery, I was naturally drawn to it.

As you go from Jayanagar 5th block Raghavendra swamy matha/temple towards JP Nagar(SSMRV), take a left turn after Mayura bakery, go down a hundred feet and so, and in the evenings, you should see a big crowd around a small push cart named "Jhakaas Pav Bhaaji"!!! This was it! There is a vacant site where one can sit on plastic chairs, so its quite luxurious for a push cart :)

We had to wait a good 30 min since he was still setting up the stuff as it was quite early in the evening, say 5:30pm. The first order was vada pav ofcourse!!! This is easily the best I have tasted thus far in Bangalore (admittedly not tasted many), but I usually know good food when I eat it, and this is really good. Not too spicy, but just a tad more than required spicy so that the tingling taste remains...hot hot vadas, straight from the tava into the pav, and this is really good.

We then had a pav bhaaji, I was torn between whether to eat a second vada pav or get a pav bhaaji, since it was my first time there, I wanted to sample as many dishes as possible. Pav Bhaaji was also very good, but the vada pav was a hard act to follow. For some reason, I hate it when I get pieces of cinnamon when I eat, and the bhaaji was full of that...no complaints though since the taste was quite good.

Am not sure what else is available, I do plan to check it out again sometime soon. It is mainly a vada pav place, it is really good, and is definitely worth a visit if you are in the neighborhood. Three of us had a vada pav and pav bhaaji each, and it cost us Rs 140 or so, which is not bad.

Directions: From inner ring road, J'nagar 5th block Raghavendraswamy temple, go towards JP Nagar and take the left after Mayura bakery, go down for a hundred feet and you will find the push cart in the evenings (6pm onwards).

Must eat: Vada Pav definitely!

Cost: Not more than Rs 50 per head no matter what you eat.