Bangalore is very good at giving us another restaurant to try.
But the latest openings are getting even more specific from Lucknowi home cooking and vegetable-led menus to 72-hour pizza dough, coffee omakase, and regional Indian kitchens with a distinct point of view.
New tables. Very different reasons to book them.
SEHN DINING ROOM
Location: COX TOWN
Lucknow, beyond the kebabs and biryani.
At this intimate 12-seat dining room, Chef Taiyaba Ali turns to the food she grew up eating, bringing the lesser-seen side of Awadhi home cooking to the table.
SERIOUS SLICE
Location: INDIRANAGAR, 12TH MAIN
The dough takes three days. Dinner doesn’t have to.
Serious Slice brings its 72-hour fermented, wood-fired pizzas to Indiranagar, complete with an open kitchen, balcony seating and, for the first time, a dedicated wine programme.
DRUMA
Location: JAYANAGAR
Vegetables get the main-character treatment.
Druma moves from Ghee Roast and Gongura Paneer Koora to Mapo Tofu and Mushroom Ricotta Ravioli, letting produce lead across Indian, South Indian, Pan-Asian and Western influences.
No obligatory vegetarian section at the back of the menu. The whole menu is the point.
GOONJ
Location: INDIRANAGAR, 100 FEET ROAD
India is a very big menu.
Goonj looks across regional Indian cooking for its contemporary menu of kebabs, chaat, curries and biryani.
A reminder that sometimes looking forward means looking a little closer to home.
KURA
Location: INDIRANAGAR
Coffee got an omakase.
Kura’s 3,000-square-foot space combines specialty coffee, an in-house bakery and pâtisserie, all-day dining and a weekly coffee omakase.
There’s even a Japanese brew tower. Your usual cappuccino may feel slightly underdressed.
TIJOURI
Location: CENTRAL BENGALURU
Indian flavours, hotel polish.
Tijouri joins Central Bengaluru’s newer dining addresses with a menu rooted in Indian cooking and a more polished hotel setting.
One for the new-restaurant Notes app.
THE BIERE CLUB
Location: BELLANDUR, RMZ ECOWORLD
The Biere Club has a new postcode.
Its third Bengaluru address is a sprawling 250-seat space at RMZ EcoWorld, with fresh brews, cocktails and a menu moving between Indian and Asian flavours.
Come for dinner. Staying for another round seems likely.
SCOOP ROOM
Location: INDIRANAGAR
Ice cream wants to be taken seriously too.
This new vegetarian and eggless concept looks beyond the usual flavour rotation, putting more attention on ingredients, technique and what actually goes into the scoop.
Chocolate and vanilla can take the evening off.
THE NEW TABLES EDIT
What’s interesting about Bangalore’s latest openings isn’t how many there are.
It’s how specific they’re getting.
Twelve seats for Lucknowi home cooking. Three days for pizza dough. An entire restaurant where vegetables lead. An omakase for coffee.
Maybe the most interesting new restaurants aren’t trying to have something for everyone anymore.
They know exactly why you should come.
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