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“Masala Inside” Dosa @ vidyarthi Bhavan, Bangalore- A Delight….
Last weekend, I had been to a place called Vidyarthi Bhavan, located in the bustling Gandhi bazaar marketplace in Bangalore. After completing our regular shopping ( “regular” would mean anything and everything to do with wifey dear, who is great on impulse buying 
), wifey dear suggested I try out Vidyarthi Bhavan….
A relic from the old times ( one board indicated “estd 1934″ ), this place has been suitably modified to suit the modern times. well…almost.. The ambience is definetely old world, complete with waiters dressed in Veshtis/ Uniformed blue shirts, gigantic idly/dosa batter making devices, etc.
Like the Inspector guy from Ratatouille, it was compelling to order everything that was there was there on the menu, only catch being there was NO menu. The menu was whatever the waiter told you… and it was pretty much the standard fare…you had the following choices:
1. Masala dosa
2. Vada
3. Khara bath
4. Kesari bath
Delicious fare- Unbelievable prices
I ordered the first three… and then the fun started.The sheer experience of watching these folks “optimize” the way they serve the customers, the way they tossed the plates (and sometimes the customers) around, the spontanaitey of it all…. left me mesmerized….
Masala Inside- Vidyarthi Bhavan's trademark dosa
Then the dosa arrived. Just the dosa. No accompaniments. No sambar, no chutney…atleast not yet. The waiter was handling twenty plates of dosas and tossing them around the table… And then there was another guy who would follow him with a huge “chutney jug” and pour the semi liquidy chutney on top of the buttery dosa which is filled with the delicious masala inside. The dosas here are thrice the thickness or regular dosass we get in Chennai/ elsewhere.
Vidyarthi bhavan- retaining Old world charm in a modern world
Filter Coffee was a tad watery and quite disappointing.. I like my coffee to be of just the right proportions – frothy, aromatic, not too sugary, and a swirl of white milk with browny edges and ofcourse served piping hot.
All in all, a great experience.
