PARTY

HIT THE HIGH NOTES Pubs, clubs, lounge bars...

The city is famous for its bars and pubs. It’s called the Beer Capital of India. With good reason. But the best reason to pub hop? It’s cosmopolitan crowd and the niche pubs that serve a select clientele. There are lounge spaces for the ladies, retro lovers and jazz enthusiasts. Not to mention, resto-bars, sports bars, roof-top bars, hookah bars, dance bars and cigar lounges for the casual and adventurous. Not to mention, the city’s first wine boutique pub. Reason enough to rewind, reboot and restart.

•Alcohol may not be served at some of these places, as per Supreme Court regulation. Please call the pub/restaurant to confirm.

PUBS, LOUNGES & RESTO-BARS KINGFISHER SWING – LOUNGE & BAR

Located at the lobby level at Eagleton–The Golf Resort, 30th KM, Bangalore–Mysore Highway, Bidadi (Bangalore Rural) Tel: 2263-2222. Avg cost for two, Rs 500-1000.

LOVESHACK

541-543, 5th Floor, Amarjyoti HBBCS Layout, Koramangala Intermediate Ring Road, Domlur Tel: 99000-34522, 4095-9154, 12pm-1am. Avg cost for two, Rs 1600.

GUZZLERS INN

48, Rest House Road, Off Brigade Road Tel: 2558-7336, 4112-2513, 11am-11.30pm. Avg cost for two, Rs 1100. One of Bangalore’s iconic pubs in terms of ambience, food and drinks. Happy hours monfri: 11am-8pm, sat-sun: 11am-6pm. Rates: Tap - Rs 310 Pitcher, for every 60ml get 30ml free on hard drinks.

BOHEMIAN SOUL HOSPITALITY XU

Shop No.C22-C23 , Level-C,The Leela Palace, The Collonade, 23, HAL 2nd Stage, HAL, Old Airport Road Tel: 98863-00030. 12pm-1am

SKYYE LOUNGE

16th Floor, Uber Level, Canberra Block, UB City, Vittal Mallya Road,Tel: 4909-0000, 5.30pm-11pm. Avg cost for two, Rs 2500.

RUSSH GASTROPUB

29, Church Street, Shanthala Nagar, Ashok Nagar Tel: 4709-6123, 11am-1am. Avg cost for two, Rs 1500.

HOUSE OF COMMONS

122/B, Opp Empire Hotel, Jyothi Nivas College Road, 5th Block, Koramangala Tel: 4211-7029, 11am-1am. Avg cost for two, Rs 1000.

DRUNKLING SIZZLERS & PUB

145, 60 Feet Road, KHB Colony, 5th Block, Koramangala; Tel: 2550 5542, 12pm-1 am. Avg cost for two, Rs 1200.

DUBLIN

ITC Windsor, 25, Golf Course Road Tel: 2226-9898, 12pm-1am. Avg cost for two, Rs 3200.

DOFF CAFÉ PUB

654, 3rd Floor, Navajyothi Complex, 100 Feet Road, Indiranagar Tel: 79966-04540. Avg cost for two, Rs 1600.

ALFRESCO BY BENE

Sheraton Grand Bangalore , 26/1 Dr Rajkumar Road Malleswaram Tel: 4252-0166, 12noon12am. Avg cost for two, Rs 2300

XTREME SPORTS BAR

•75, Play Arena, Central Jail Road, Kasavanahalli, Sarjapur Road, Tel: 4965- 3459. 12noon–12pm • Ferns City Road, Opposite Fern Vars Jacaranda Doodenekundi, Marathahalli, Tel: 4965-2185, 11.30am–1am Average cost for two Rs.1500

WYT

Bluemoon Complex, MG Road Tel: 4150-1414, 10.30am-11pm. Avg cost for two, Rs 1500.

THE BLUE BAR

The Taj West End, 25, Race Course Road Tel: 6660-5660, 4.30pm-11.30pm. Avg cost for two, Rs 2500.

POLO CLUB

The Oberoi, 37/39, MG Road Tel: 2558-5858 9.45am-1pm. Avg cost for two, Rs 1800.

HIGHLAND NECTAR

ITC Royal Gardenia, 1, Residency Road Tel: 2211-9898, 3pm-1am. Avg cost for two, Rs 2500.

BLING

The Zuri Whitefield, Whitefield Road Tel: 6665-7272, 11am–11.30pm. Avg cost for two, Rs 2000.

CHAMELEON

Comfort Inn Insys 46,1 St Main Road, Mathikere,Yeshwanthpur, Tel: 4646-8000

TILT GASTRO LOUNGE

99, Ground Floor, 4th B Cross, 5th Block, 1st Main Road, Koramangala Tel: 98865-03432, 4pm-11.30pm. Avg cost for two, Rs 1500.

THE 13TH FLOOR

84, Barton Centre, MG Road Tel: 4178-3355, 5pm-11pm. Avg cost for two, Rs 1800.

THE BLACK RABBIT

770, 12th Main Road, 100 Feet Road, Indiranagar Tel: 4241-5575, 12pm-1am. Avg cost for two, Rs 1500.

HAKUNA MATATA RESTOBAR

1231/35/2, 24th Main, Opp Brigade Palm Springs, JP Nagar 7th Phase Tel: 4965-2957, 12.30pm-11.30pm. Avg cost for two, Rs 1500.

SOCIAL

•Church Street, 46/1, Cobalt Building; Tel: 91520-17971 •Koramangala, 118, 3rd Floor, 80 Feet Road, 7th Block; Tel: 4372-3295 •Whitefield, Phoenix Marketcity, ITPL Main Road; Tel: 6726-6661 •Sarjapur Main Road, Saket Callipolis, Opp Wipro; Tel: 86575-23587, 9am-12.30am. Avg cost for two, Rs 1500.

SHERLOCK’S PUB

60/1, Coles Road, Cleveland Town Tel: 88803-00600 • 212/A, 1st Main Rd, Stage 2, Indiranagar Tel: 88844-45646 • 46, 4th B Cross Road, 5th Block, Koramangala Tel: 88844-45642•Green Avenue, Kundalhalli Colony, ITPL main road, Kundalhalli, Brookefield Tel: 9731567291. Avg cost for two, Rs 1500.

SKYDECK BY SHERLOCK’S

52, MG Road, Ashok Nagar Tel: 4965-2744

HOPPIPOLA

3rd Floor, 14, Church Street Tel: 2559-7712. Avg cost for two, Rs 1300. 12noon-12am.

COMMERCIAL STREET • KAMMANAHALLI • JAYANAGAR • MARATHALLI • KATHRIGUPPE • HSR LAYOUT • BASAVESHWARNAGAR

Sattvik food as a path to higher consciousness ISKCON introduces Bangalore’s first sattvik cuisine restaurant – The Higher Taste

BY SMITI JAIN NARAYAN

A higher consciousness awaits you as you enter the imposing structure of ISKCON temple located in Rajajinagar. It’s a different world – one of serenity and peace and a timeless appeal where you can suspend all your stress in these holy precincts away from the harsh hustle-bustle of the city outside. Pure white marble steps lead you up to the main temple complex through thoughtfully laid out pathways in an organised manner with good signages everywhere.

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), otherwise known as the Hare Krishna movement, includes five hundred major centers, temples and rural communities with nearly one hundred affiliated vegetarian restaurants worldwide. ISKCON has expanded widely since its founding by His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda in New York City in 1966.

After darshan in the main temple, you mustn’t leave until you have a taste of the purest, lightest, most flavourful food at The Higher Taste, Bangalore’s first full sattvik cuisine restaurant. Here, food is a philosophy and vegetarianism a way of life. Discover the health giving and spiritually uplifting properties of pure sattvik food as exemplified at The Higher Taste.

The Higher Taste combines the wisdom of the vedas, with the flair of modern day cooking to create signature sattvik meals – pure, wholesome meals prepared without any use of ingredients like garlic, onion, eggs, caffeine or too much spice. All the

food feels light and gentle and wholesome on the palate as well as the stomach, and yet so tasty and flavourful to satisfy your appetite.

The whole concept of sattvik food is explained in the Bhagavad-Gita as being juicy, wholesome and pleasing to the heart, thereby providing subtle nourishment to the body and mind for positive vitality. Each dish cooked at The Higher Taste by their in-house devotees-cum-cooks is first offered to Lord Krishna and thus in effect whatever food you consume at the restaurant is prasadam.

The pure food served here is meant also to inspire people to understand that for health, taste and spiritual advancement, there is no better way of eating than to eat vegetarian food. Not only is it easy, it’s also thoroughly enjoyable and easy to Visionary behind Sattvik Food: digest as well. Madhu Pandit Dasa, President of

At The Higher Taste, the ambience, like the ISKCON Bangalore, Chairman of cuisine, is a refreshing mix of old and modern The Akshaya Patra Foundation, & India. Rich mauve and purple motifs reflect the Chairman of Vrindavan Chandrodaya intricacies of Indian art and are complemented Mandir. by dark mahogany and clean lines of the modern The Govt of India has recently design aesthetic, with a soothing environment made perfect with gentle, lilting music of the restaurant. Nestled on top of the Hare Krishna Hill, The conferred the prestigious Padma Shri Award upon him, in recognition of distinguished service rendered by Akshaya Patra Foundation for the Higher Taste offers visitors a menu which is children of India. absolutely divine with a plethora of wonderful dishes to choose from – all prepared with purity using freshest ingredients and with utmost hygiene. It’s the perfect finish to round out your visit to the temple.

Once you experience the satisfaction of eating food prepared with the consciousness of pleasing Lord Krishna, you will know at you have acquired a ‘higher taste’ in life.

Mango Rasgulla Chaat Vetrilai Thakkali Satham Paan Ice Cream

THE HIGHER TASTE ISKCON International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Founder-Acharya: HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada) Hare Krishna Hill, Chord Road; Tel: 2347-1956 www.iskconbangalore.org