Gastronomic Adventures around UVCE.

When I joined UVCE in 1958, the college canteen was providing refreshments. But soon tiring of the limited cuisine, I began making forays around & first discovered technological institute (where the legendary cameraman V.K.Murthy studied) canteen, conveniently located just opposite, curiously called Sri Ramanjaneya Canteen. But it was also a disappointment with its gravelly idlis.
Then there was the YMCA canteen on Nrupatunga road, which besides being on the way to UVCE, provided a change for sometime.

Then proceeding in the other direction, I discovered Central College Canteen, whose speciality was garlic chutney. Going further towards the end of Avenue Road (near the present State Bank Building) was the India Coffee House, which was famous for vegetable cutlets & of course the ubiquitous Masala Dosa.
Taking a right turn & going down Kempegowda road, nearing the meeting of Subedar Chatram road, nestled a restaurant, which served paper-thin, scrumptious Rava Dosas. Sadly by this time, the 4 years of the engineering course came to an end.

But the gastronomic adventures did not stop. My first assignment was teaching at the BMS college, with the legendary Vidyarthi Bhavan at a stone's throw, as it were. So full justice was meted out to the Masala Dosas at every opportunity. If one tired of this (if one can imagine such a thing) there was always the Circle Lunch Home right opposite, with its inviting Rava Idlis.

But all good things come to an end, & this being no exception, I left BMS & joined HAL, where only occasional visits to the canteen had to suffice.

(This has been written consciously parodying Charles Lamb, arguably the greatest English essayist)