VV Puram Food Street
VV Puram Food Street or Visveswara Puram Food Street is a food street in Visveswarapura, Basavanagudi, Bangalore. Located near Sajjan Rao Circle, the street has over 20 food stalls in less than 150 meters serving varieties of pure vegetarian street food, sweets, South Indian, North Indian and Chinese dishes.[1] Called Thindi Beedi in Kannada, the food street is said to have a cult status among Bangaloreans.[2] The street typically becomes busy after six in the evening.[3]
The food street hosts the "Avarekai Mela" annually in the winter months of December/January, when varieties of dishes are prepared using avarekai (hyacinth beans)–both hithkabele (peeled beans) and avarebele (unpeeled beans). The festival which started as an effort to sell the produce of avarekai farmers became popular over the years with more than 1000 kg of avarekai being purchased directly from the farmers on each day of the festival.[4][5]
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- ^ Kulkarni, Tanu (15 August 2012). "Street treat for a veritable steal". The Hindu. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ "Quick fix food street in VV Puram: How to make food street a better hangout". The Economic Times. 19 April 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ Varma, Nikhil (20 January 2014). "Mecca of street food". The Hindu. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ "Time to spill the beans". Deccan Herald. 13 January 2017. Retrieved 21 May 2017.
- ^ Ranganna, Akhila (18 January 2016). "In Bengaluru, an ode to broad beans at the Avarekai Mela". The Indian Express. Retrieved 21 May 2017.