Spo0nman

It's a place where you go stand and eat good idli and vada swimming in sambhar but, So what? Don't get me wrong, I love idli sambhar and they do a great job of it. The sambhar is excellent.

They put too much chikori in their coffee, every thing else on their menu is sub par.

At least with those prices. The place serves absolutely horrible food. Have you ever been to an Iyengar bakery and tried to eat the 12 rupees pastry they've made? Yeah! the purple one with violet highlights. Yes! Nilgiris is exactly that but, the pastry costs 30 bucks.

Their "continental" cuisine made me wonder if it's made by someone from kodihalli who discovered bread and mayo the previous night.

Don't go there. If you want to pay for awful food- the least you can do is go to your neighborhood Iyengar bakery guy and help him make some money.

I agree with the previous reviewer. MTR takes the award for the most over-rated restaurant in Bangalore. We had to wait for two hours for food even though we came early and got the "food tickets" for 1pm we were told that we were supposed to come up and register for 1 pm, we were served at 2:30 pm.

The food was decent and they add Sodium bicarbonate to the rice so that you can't eat too much. The guy who was serving us told us that we should not sit in-front of each other, but, next to each other so that two more people could sit on out table. The idea is, if you sit in front of each other you talk more and hence take more time eating. Even though I didn't eat too much my stomach felt very full.

The staff is cold if not rude. This is definitely not the place to goto, even "only for the food." I'd much rather go to vidhyarthi bhavan.

This has to be the most pseudo intellectual place in the world. Once I saw a couple sitting in-front of each other and both of them were reading. The chick was reading Edmund Husserl and guy was reading Jung or some such. I was revolted and amused at the same time. I wanted to go and ask them "Are you guys actually 12 or are you doing a social critique of *this* place?" The food is decent at best. The service is awful, the place has the ambiance of being in Calcutta 70 years ago and not cleaned since. Their Tomato fish and Onion pineapple steak used to be good but not anymore. They also do bacon and eggs with sausages and mash potatoes. It's enjoyable.

If you want you can also drink beer in the 70 rupees a dozen glasses. It's regular to see people drinking bad whiskey at noon there. The only reason I frequented koshy's often was to play a game with my friends. It was called "Spot the Pseudo." It was fun for a while but then the only people who'd turn up were pseudo and we had to change the format to be "Spot the non pseudo." There were subtle variations like spot the POMO and spot the POMA.

To make a gross generalization the only people who walk in to koshey's are skinny guys in khadi kurtas with long beards and women who wear "subtle" saris. Who then make it subtler by carrying a backpack and a helment in the other hand.

To hear their pompous "discussions" about the global bazzar. to witness these people name-dropping "Noam" (Yes first name basis) Chomsky and Foucault is not appetizing but vomit inducing.

I'd recommend you to goto this place and see the intellectual circus.