Central Tiffin Room or CTR or Sri Sagar Hotel is a restaurant in northwest Bangalore started in mid 1920’s. It is notable for its Masala Dosas which come in butter and non butter variants. It is situated at the 7th Cross Road corner of Margosa Road, Malleshwaram, opposite to the Malleshwaram Grounds.(Google Maps Location) Apart from the Dosas CTR is also known for its Idly-Vada, Poori-Saagu, Kharabath, Kesaribath, Mangalore Bajji , Maddur Vada and filter coffee. It has won awards including the Times Food Guide “Best Benne Masala Dosa in Bangalore” and Burrp.com’s “Best Benne Masala in Bangalore”. (Courtesy Wikipedia)

I and My friend Nayan on authentic dosa scavenging in Bangalore reached CTR or Hotel Sri Sagar early morning on our cycles and ordered Ghee Masala Dosa. At morning 7.00 am, the place was already beaming with customers. 

The order was attended bit slow compared to other places we reviewed (Vidyarthi Bhavan being the fastest).

Review of Ghee Masala Dosa – If you like your dosa crispy, then this is the one. The dosa made here was the crispiest among all dosa’s we had ate till now in Bangalore and also understood the delay in serving as the dosa takes more time on pan to make it that crispy. Taste was good and ghee in masala dosa was prominent. The side dishes like sambhar and coconut chutney were good but not upto mark as we expected. but Ghee Masala Dosa was ultimate.

Take care and Bye till next time.

Part 1 of this series covered Vidyarthi Bhavan- one of the iconic eatout in Bangalore catering since ages.

This blog is focussing on Janatha Hotel, another iconic eatout surviving the fast paced urbanisation and modernisation of Bangalore City. Janatha Hotel is situated in Malleshwaram, Bangalore. (Google Maps) 

Hotel Janatha is a pure veg south Indian breakfast home which serves you authentic dosas, idli, vada and speciality of this restaurant is that they serve authentic Maddur Vada and Mysore Pak which I think is not available in other restaurants nearby. It is also famous for its crispy vada and of course crispy butter dosa.

As we were more interested to taste the Ghee Masala Dosa (which we have made a standard to compare), we ordered the same. After waiting for some time, we were served our orders. The dosa were the crispiest I had ever in Bangalore till date, the best part was the accompaniments – Sambhar and Chutney. They were best.

You can really experience the old Bangalore here, be it the wooden benches to sit or the self service menu which is fixed since ages.

I feel all the food lovers should visit this restaurant once at 8th Cross malleshwaram, Bangalore and enjoy the past. This place still maintains its originality.

Bye and take care till next part of Dosa Scavenging….

As you are aware that we always plan to roam around in Bangalore in our cycles. For Vidyarthi Bhavan, we started from Hebbal early morning at 5.00 AM. We reached Vidyarthi Bhavan at around 6.40 AM (route map) and were astonished to see that so early in the morning, the food joint is bustling with activities and orders on high. In fact the seats were almost full. So we rushed to capture two of the vacant seats in Vidyarthi Bhavan. At one glance, you could only admire that the place has not changed itself with the fast paced lifestyle and we could feel the vibes of old heritage place. We were excited and hungry after cycling for more than 15 kms. One of the attender took our order and before we could think our order of two Ghee Masala Dosa was served steaming hot before us. On service parameter, 10/10. 

At Vidyarthi Bhavan

The Ghee Masala Dosa was crisp and mouth watering. The best one we had in recent times and certainly justifies the hype around it and certainly Vidyarthi Bhavan lives upto its name and reputation by this. But looking at the menu, they do not mention Ghee Masala Dosa. So we were inquisitive and found that the item Masala Dosa is the same we were served and the quality is above standard compared to many other food joints in Bangalore.