What's with the Italian food in cafes?
Why is that the damn default? As soon as a place is a "cafe", there pops out pizzas and pasta. Its easier to find a pasta in Indiranagar than Indian food varieties. Yes yes, there are this and that famous restaurant for X Indian cuisine. But Italian is just way more common and easier to find.
No offence to anyone but Italian food isn't "real food". It's just something you eat for a change of taste from great Indian options (my opinion of course).
I wish Indian food was wayy more common. Kerala cuisine, Andhra, our local North Karnataka cuisine khanavalis, girmittu, Puri oggarne, obbattu! This is real taste and real food. All of this cuisine in a cafe life setting would be absolutely brilliant.
But, we are stuck with stupid ass breads and bland shitty pastas. Sigh.
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I might be wrong about this, but generally when I think about a Cafe it would be associated to being Italian. Granted it doesn't help that more and more cafe's are popping up hence more "stupid ass breads", but I guess we can't blame them for being inherently an Italian / French concept.
It’s harder to get good North Indian food in Bangalore than it’s to get Italian, continental, Turkish, Greek and what not.
Maybe you're looking at wrong method, I use Zomato/Dineout filter cuisine, rating feature to find fancy upmarket Indian food outlets. Some even have it mentioned in the name.
Calling it international allows to charge premium. You cant start a khanavalli and charge 300rs for a jowar roti. But you can make something look like a kichadi call it rizoto and charge 800rs.
“Cafe” in India means multi-cuisine restaurant which will have not just Italian but also some sandwiches, salads, Chinese, Asian and a few Indian items. Avoid most of them unless you can’t.
The reason for this is simple: the TAM for each individual cuisine is too small so restaurants club them together.
The golden rule of restaurants is - always pick something that does ONE cuisine. Whether it’s Indian, Italian, or Asian is up to you.
