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A few new discoveries

By ⋅ May 24, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Some new dis­cov­er­ies last week­end (when I was sup­posed to be study­ing my French, but did every­thing else but!):

Cosmo Vil­lage — A lounge bar. My first visit. Heard quite a bit about the place. It’s a decent joint. Liked the com­fort­able sofas. Nice music. (How­ever, I have got quite a few con­flict­ing reports about it). Crowded like all other places on week­ends. I have a feel­ing that no one stays home any­more (I can hear you say: look who’s talk­ing!). Wher­ever you go (any day of the week) you have to bat­tle not only traf­fic jams but also crowds. Unfor­tu­nately, all these cool joints close early. So at about mid­night, we had to beat a hasty retreat. It’s located off Brigade Road.

Dublin : the bar at the Wind­sor Manor. Out of the win­dow, there’s a pretty pool. It had just rained, and the skies were turn­ing dark. One par­tic­u­lar tree beside the pool had about a thou­sand para­keets on it (and I didn’t have my cam­era). The weather was beau­ti­ful. Watched the F1 on the big screen. Kimi Raikon­nen won. Felt a lit­tle sorry for Shumi though (where was he?!). It was the sev­enth con­sec­u­tive race with­out a Fer­rari vic­tory and Schumi must be now won­der­ing how he allowed his great­est fears in the form of Räikkönen and Alonso, to get ahead. Ah, a friends says he’d become arro­gant. But I think he’s a champ and will bounce back. Regard­less of all the talk of his going old. He should go out in style at least after all his exploits on the track.

Opus : A neat place some­where near the Palace Grounds area, can’t remem­ber the name of the road. They had karaoke night on Sun­day. It was a cool evening and thank­fully, it didn’t pour since we had seats out­side. Nice music. Some great singers emerged from the wood­work (or wher­ever they were hid­ing). One from our group who floored every­one singing Ironic and No Doubt. I am quite sure some of them were pro­fes­sion­als, the way they were singing! We missed win­ning a cham­pagne bot­tle for the birth­day boy by a whisker, methinks! A nice place to chill out, if you’re look­ing for good music and a chilled out environment.

Any other chilled out places you know in Bangalore?

Discussion

27 Responses to “A few new discoveries”

  1. hey anita,
    the new look of your blog is pretty cool.
    yoi might want to check out “taika” for its awe­some ambi­ence!( scented can­dles, indian chants etc.,)

    Posted by Muthu Online | May 24, 2005, 6:18 pm

  2. Hmmm… “13th floor” on MG Road? I havent been much around Ban­ga­lore yet but I think it was a nice place :)

    Posted by Aditya | May 24, 2005, 9:52 pm

  3. My vote for Opus ! Dee was awe­some on Sat­ur­day night…

    I think I spot­ted you at Tav­ern on Sat­ur­day night though. I remem­ber, coz I told me friend, ooh ! Look ! Look ! Celebrity Blog­ger !! or some such ;)

    Posted by Vigvg | May 25, 2005, 8:08 pm

  4. muthu, thanks! taika, yes. kaushal swears by it and we nearly did land up going there. but since it was sat­ur­day, we decided not to risk it :0)

    aditya: 13th floor is a nice place. the view at least, if not the food :)

    vig­nesh: it was me! you should have yelled a big hello. would have made my day :) it was so packed that we left almost as soon as we entered! next time, remem­ber to come up and say hello!

    Posted by anita | May 25, 2005, 10:33 pm

  5. looks like u have ven­tured out to the dark side of the moon only recently :)

    cosmo has been there for quite some time … first of the lounge bars and fusion food places…

    dublin.… only thing i remem­ber is that they are the only pub serv­ing Guiness.…

    i think u shd come out with a list of places u havent been to… and peo­ple will fill pages with the rec­om­men­da­tions here…

    there is nice cozy place called “wind­sor pub” near mount carmel.…

    Posted by krishna | May 26, 2005, 4:35 pm

  6. There is this nice cock­tail lounge that I know of… the owner is the chef too and I know him pretty well. Boy, can he cook!

    Posted by MadMan | May 26, 2005, 8:35 pm

  7. Hey Anita,
    There are loads of cool hang­outs in Ban­ga­lore. I have a lot of favourite places. Here’s a list..
    1. Aura– it’s a lounge, bar, disco and has a nice restau­rant too. They serve alchohol too. Pretty good food. The ambi­ence is really good. It’s on Cun­ning­ham road. It’s in the same the same build­ing as Pizza hut.
    2. Taika– amaz­ing food. Great ambience.But i would pre­fer Aura over Taika
    3. Spin– great place to hang­out with your firends. it’s off Res­i­dency Road. You’ll really like the place. I love it. It’s not like your just another Disco. You’ve got lots to do out here. got the dance floor, the ter­race , the por­tico area. In all it’s a no non­sense hang­out.
    4. Barista– I love the barista on Lavelle road. It’s next to cof­fee day. It’s inside an inte­ri­ors store called Cin­na­mon. really nice place to hang­out.
    5. The 13th Floor– It’s in Bar­ton cen­ter, on M.G road. You have to do your book­ings if you want to enter. Got a really nice view. Pretty good music. If you don’t want to try the food over there, then you have a choice. there’s a nice restau­rant on the same floor. it’s one of my favourite restau­rants..
    Any­way gotta go. will soon add to the list
    Regards
    Divya Rao.

    Posted by Divya rao | May 29, 2005, 1:16 pm

  8. So the list con­tin­ues…
    6. Ebony– The roof top restau­rant. Spec­tac­u­lar view. Good food. Serve Alchohol. At Bar­ton centre,M.G. road. On the 13th floor. So if you are in Ban­ga­lore, you must visit this place.
    7.Windsor Pub– Nice cool place to hang­out with friends. If you are a sports junky.. then this is the right place to watch your fav sport, with your friends and unwind with a glass of Beer or any­thing else you like. Some really great steaks. But if you want to treat your taste buds then you must try their Man­ga­lore cui­sine. It’s located near the Palace Grounds.
    8.Bombay Post– On Air­port road. In the same build­ing as TGIF. Food is pretty good, it’s the inte­ri­ors that will bowl you over.
    9. Ban­jara– It’s a nice cozy place off race course road. A nice place to go when bet­ter places are full. :)
    10.1920– It’s off M.G. raod Near koshy’s. Neat place. Old Archi­tec­ture retained. Used to be a pub before called 180 Proof, but the own­ers of 180 proof shifted to Delhi. A calm place, to sit­back and relax. not a badly lit place but goes with the inte­ri­ors. Good food. Lovely stuff to drink.
    so to say there are many more places… will tell you about them after you have tried these.
    Hope you like them.
    Regards,
    Divya Rao.

    Posted by Divya rao | May 30, 2005, 7:04 pm

  9. anita,

    i like Java city and Cor­ner house..both places have a nice mix of people,and the ice cream in cor­ner house is sim­ply mar­velous. and in the Cor­ner house in Carl­ton tow­ers, they dont tell you to hurry so one can just sit there and nurse one ice cream for hours together!!!

    have fun

    Posted by Bhavna | May 31, 2005, 10:52 am

  10. Geof­freys’ is nice.Hope i got the spelling right.You can get hookahs there too.

    Well haven’t been to taika too many times.I did flick a lotta free drinks the last time and i also think the entrance too clumsy with the crowd around the bouncer.I remem­ber this time when the cops busted the place…twice…so the man­age­ment is crooked with no connections.

    Spinn…mmmm…the tequila shots there are fake sub­sti­tutes or diluted, coz i was on 2 legs and com­posed after 8 shots!!

    Posted by Sharath | June 12, 2005, 4:43 pm

  11. Anita…your split pic­tures are oppos­ing.
    Well i could use Photoshop,and rotate the left n right pic by –60 and +30 and merge them or some­thing.
    or maybe it’s not worth it.

    Posted by Sharath | June 12, 2005, 4:48 pm

  12. yeah well OPUS was great. Looks like ama­teur artists who’re highly tal­ented wait for a career break here or some­thing. Well this ori­en­tal chic rap­per kicked every ass.

    Any­way Beware OPUS makes up bills. we landed a 8K thing for 4 of us, which went back once to get reduced by 700. Prices lil steep. Great ambience

    Posted by Sharath | June 16, 2005, 1:02 am

  13. hey anita,
    was doing a search for stuff on the net about opus .. and stum­bled upon this (oops … sorry i own the place .… and wouldve been conuct­ing that weeks karaoke … sorry ur buddy missed the cham­pagne… )then i got sucked in deeper and deeper … me too is a pro­duce of mum­bai … me is a child of the early 70’s .. 72 to be exact.,.. and whad­dya know?? a pis­cean as well … any­ways stay in touch … im gonna start a blog for myself as well … can i put u on the opus mail base … its a com­mu­nity of a lot of like minded peo­ple
    muaah
    carlton

    Posted by carlton | July 2, 2005, 1:24 pm

  14. Hey,

    I like Opus too! we’re organ­is­ing a the­atre work­shop for new­bies and those inter­ested in get­ting to the­atre at Opus this week­end (Oct 22 and 23). The fee is Rs 800 for the work­shop includ­ing work­shop mate­r­ial and buf­fet lunch and evening snacks on both days.

    Please join up and ask your friends to as well!

    Con­tact me at 99451 90852 for details.

    Anin­dita

    Posted by Anindita | October 19, 2005, 4:54 pm

  15. Hi,
    I got here from Bom­bay some time back. My favouite places are Pecos [the music is my kinda music and the grub is great]. But it’s a garage really. These days we hang around Mojo. Both these around Brigades. I also love Leg­ends of Rock in K’mangala. I mostly pub to lis­ten to music and get high. Ambi­ence is good but not that impor­tant. Sure like Opus — just wish they did a bit more live acts. Another great place [like Opus but much larger] is Grasshop­per. It’s beyond IIM on Sar­japur Road. Heard Kookie there the other night. He’s one of the finest gui­tarists around.

    Hey, What’s hap­pen­ing this New Year? Any­body heard ofa good party? Miss Goa this time of the year…If you know of any­thing do write to me at satrajitc@yahoo.com

    Cheers
    Satty

    Posted by Satty | December 9, 2005, 12:39 pm

  16. Hey ppl,

    does any one knw of any place in and around ban­ga­lore where one can hang out for the nite with one’s gf!..do lemme knw cause ive hrd the police have been real hard on the reg­u­lar discs and they kind of clos early!

    akaash

    Posted by akaash | January 14, 2006, 1:10 am

  17. hey nice blog u got out here. im new to town and have been keenly check­ing out places,just thought id add me bit. was at opus last fri­day (3 march), they have this really unusual guest DJ [im told he’s an md of some big com­pany and moon­lights as a dj some­times]. It was the most amaz­ing music our group ever heard. The place rocked like crazy…never seen before, every sin­gle per­son at the place were on their feet. U must check it out if hes play­ing there again.
    cheers
    shanks.

    Posted by shanks | March 8, 2006, 2:29 pm

  18. hey ppl,you gotta check out the barista near anil kumn­ble circle,towards the end of mg road.,the crowd there is awe­some and can sip ur coffe for hours toghter.the music there is awe­some too

    Posted by priyank | June 11, 2006, 1:23 pm

  19. This is exactly what I was look­ing for, thanks for the info.

    Posted by dj | June 13, 2006, 5:05 am

  20. Hey Guys,

    Check out for B11 in Jayana­gar, it really rocks..!

    Posted by Raj | March 5, 2007, 10:19 pm

  21. hi..im new to bglore.was in Pune for last 4 yrs.well,the most absurd thing about pubs in bglore is that they open up at prbly 8 or 9 n close by 11…whereas in Pune it usu­ally used to get started at 11 or 11.30 n go on up to 2am or even 4 in the mornin.…they wont even let u in bfore 11…n i think thts really hw it shld be lke…

    Posted by sippy | June 7, 2007, 12:33 pm

  22. hey,

    i still want a good restau­rant to spend a sepe­cial day. cant decide . well anyidea how spin would be ?

    Posted by puja | October 12, 2007, 9:08 am

  23. Hi guys!!

    Just shifted recently from delhi. Am new here n I need friends and I need to find out cool places.
    Cant sit in d hotel all d time watchin tv.

    Posted by Ashish S | October 19, 2007, 11:22 am

  24. Hey Puja,

    Posted by Rony | April 9, 2008, 2:14 am

  25. If its ares­turent that u r look­ing for, I can sug­gest a few,
    Try, Taste Of Rampur-Its very oppo­site to forum,the ser­vice and the ambi­ence are too good and off curz the Food is damn dele­cious.
    Hope u like it

    Posted by Rony | April 9, 2008, 2:16 am

  26. hi anita..

    have u tried sun­nys? its another awe­some place.. and if u don’t mind giv­ing pref­er­ence to food over ambi­ence then you could try hyder­abad biryani near lifestyle.. the biryani is the best andhra one i’ve eaten in ban­ga­lore i guess.. and if ur look­ing for some place to just go and sit and relax on a sun­day or sat­ur­day after­noon you could try la made­line.. lavelle road..

    by the way divya.. the barista is closed down now and so has ur 1920 (its actu­ally 1912) and there is brand new place — HARD ROCK CAFE — with some awe­some inte­ri­ors.. i also say that cos we did it :) (khosla asso­ciates).. i dont know if this blog is still active but i just felt like post­ing one..

    cheers..

    Posted by Nitin | May 16, 2008, 10:15 am

  27. hey nitin as u said barista closed down then i’m afraid to say even la made­line also closed n even i feel this blog is not active nymore

    Posted by abhishek | November 11, 2008, 3:55 pm

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