Sector 4, HSR Layout · Pure Veg

Indianised jamming café

Goan cooking, entirely vegetarian. Two hundred plants, a rain curtain, floor seating — and somebody playing most evenings.

Open
7 days
from 11
The main room at Silaa HSR — carved wooden pillars, a terracotta tile roof, floor cushions and a rain curtain running past a planted trough, full of people
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pure veg
every plate, every day
87
dishes
across 13 sections
7
days a week
from 11 in the morning
The card, physically

87 dishes.
13 sections.

Every section on the menu, dropped in a heap. Grab one and throw it about — then go read the real thing.

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Jamming nights

Most evenings,
somebody plays.

Most evenings someone is playing. A keyboard against the logo wall, a guitar passed around, candles down on the floor and the room sitting cross-legged in front of it. No cover, no green room, no setlist we can promise you in advance.

More on the music
A jamming night in progress — musicians on a low stage lit by candles, the audience seated on the floor
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Rain. Cravings. Karnataka.

Monsoon Karnataka Special

Four towns, four things worth getting wet for. Runs alongside the main card while the rain lasts.

1
Shivamogga

Mirchi Bajji

Long chillies in gram-flour batter, split and stuffed, fried to order. Coconut chutney on the side.

2
Mysore

Maddur Vada

Flat, crisp, studded with onion and curry leaf — the vada that got its name from a railway platform.

3
Mangalore

Goli Bajji

Soft, round, sour-tinged with curd. The coast's answer to a rainy afternoon.

4
Tumkur

Mosaru Vada

Vada drowned in thick curd, then scattered with sev, pomegranate and coriander.

Third floor.
Lift to 3.

Lotus Building, above Haldiram's on 17th Cross. Open every day from eleven.