Mangalore Pearl

Where: Coles Road, Frazer Town, Bangaluru.

Price: ~ 300 for two

Don't worry about the price. Mangalore Pearl will add to your bill because of the amount you'll end up eating. Not necessarily because of the price/plate. Or whatever it is that they call that in the restaurant business.

The décor is your regulation "clean homely" restaurant. The only difference is that this is actually clean. But then that's a given in most restaurants on the Peninsula. Like the name suggests, it serves honest-to-goodness Mangalorean-Konkani food. So straight off the bat, let the veggies beware. The food is delicious, but does not have as much a choice as the carnivores have. Both can start with the sol kadi (buttermilk with cocum, hint of garlic and spices). There are tons of starters. The prawn fry at 90 INR are worth it. Especially considering that they come wrapped in pork. Yumm! Batter fried squid rings is another starter that can ring in the main course nicely (and help pardon this tired joke). All fish come highly recommended, especially the clams and mussels sukha.

While there, for the main course, try the sannas - they're shaped like idlis - but some of the curries like pork baffat go better with neer dosa. These are thin rice dosas. Neer dosas go equally well with the chicken sukha. However, seafood are the better done of all dishes here. There are daily specials which are invariably fishy in nature and typically kaane masala fry, mootley, prawns masala or pomfret fry.

Bread pudding or caramel custard are the more popular deserts, but after such a repast, it is difficult to keep place for trivial stuff like custard.

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