POLAMMA’S MESS | This Eatery Serves Tasty, Affordable ANDHRA FOOD & Memories Of A Grandmother’s Love

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polamma’s mess, popular andhra eatery for working professionals, students, families, vegetarian andhra meal, banana leaf meal, bhojanam, pappu, sambar, rasam, hyderabadi chicken biryani, chicken roast, mutton pepper fry boneless, chicken polamma, fish fry, bangalore, bengaluru
Every city has its celebrated restaurants, these are the ones that everybody knows. And then there are hundreds of tiny eateries that are almost unknown except to those they quietly provide daily sustenance to - office goers, working professionals, students yearning for a taste of home.... However, in the current scenario of work from home, offices and educational institutions being shut, these establishments that once were the lifeline of the communities they served are now finding it difficult to sustain themselves.
In this episode, I visit one such Bengaluru eatery, Polamma’s Mess, named so by its owner, Jagadeesh Reddy in memory of his late grandmother who raised him as an orphan in a village near Kalahasti, Andhra Pradesh. I hear his poignant account of how this once bustling eatery is barely getting by, which is rather unfortunate given the simple but delicious Andhra vegetarian bhojanam that Polamma’s serves in addition to other meaty sides. I hope you will find within your heart the desire to support eateries like Polamma’s Mess. These need your support today to help keep them on their feet to continue serving the workforce, students, community at large… when things get back to normal in the future. Take care and stay safe.
Veg Meals
My favourite part of the meal here. Simple but satisfying affair of rice served with a nutritious and creamy ‘thottakoora’ pappu, vegetable for the day, sambar, rasam, yoghurt and the staple condiments of pappula podi, ghee and ghongura chutney. The simplicity of the meal is reminiscent of what you will be served in an Andhra home.
Rs. 100 (usd 1.3)
8/10
Chicken Roast
The chicken is double cooked, first in a deep-flavoured masala and then roasted in ghee with plenty of curry leaves and spices. Moist inside and with a slight roasted crunch, this is a must-order if you like chicken and prefer it sprightly and spicy..
Rs. 150 (usd 2)
9/10
Chicken Polamma
This chicken fry is fortified with the richness of cashew paste and red chilli powder, the sort of preparation that will make you sweat if you aren’t accustomed to chilli heat.
Rs. 150 (usd 2)
8/10
Vanjaram Fry
The fish is fried in a tasty masala, albeit thin sliced, the sort that you would expect to find in a mess.
Rs. 200 (usd 2.7)
7.5/10
Mutton Pepper Fry Boneless
The meat is soft, but the flavours of the masala had settled a tad; I also found the cornstarch a bit overwhelming, especially since we didn’t get to it as soon as it arrived on the table.
Rs. 220 (usd 3)
7/10
Chicken Hyderabadi Biryani
The Friday special at Polamma’s Mess is portioned enough to feed one, or two if you precede it with the Andhra veg bhojanam. There is plenty of masala and the chicken is moist and juicy, made in the kacchi akhni style. A recipe picked up by Jagadeesh during his stint in Hyderabad.
Rs. 150 (usd 2)
8/10
Kripal Amanna,
Gourmet On The Road,
Food Lovers TV
TIMINGS: lunch - 12pm to 330pm; dinner - 7pm to 1030pm
Note: Only lunch service on Sundays; as you may have seen in the video this is a modest eatery sans any frills. For those looking for takeaways, they are available on Swiggy and Zomato too. Located close to Christ College.
ADDRESS - Polamma’s Mess, 67/1, 2nd Cross Rd, Chikku Lakshmaiah Layout, Adugodi, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560029; tel: [phone]
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I hope you will find within your heart the desire to support eateries like Polamma’s Mess. These need your support today to help keep them on their feet to continue serving the workforce, students, community at large… when things get back to normal in the future. Address and google maps coordinates in video description. Take care and stay safe. If you'd like to support our work, please join our KZbin membership community using the 'join' button below or on our channel home page, or visit our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/foodloverstv More options to support in description below. Follow us on Instagram for more on delicious food @kripalamanna instagram.com/kripalamanna/ or @foodloversindia instagram.com/foodloversindia/ Cheers! 😋

[@goolibangalore]

Sir please publish the Google pay or phone pe number in order to contribute please do needful we admire your work

[@ramyasubramanyam3154]

Missing the andhra meals and non veg starters , I used to be visiting regularly😊

[@delnashahunabaindur277]

Yrs for sure

[@shwethamallik8998]

Such a down to earth man. We love your show. Keep rocking

[@rehanmirza9778]

Used to visit this place almost everyday for lunch a couple of years ago! Thank you for visiting this amazing place! Feels nostalgic!

[@chandravijayvedantam5423]

This is nothing short of a social service. Helping small eateries who were one among the worst effected. Keep doing much more such videos kirpal ji

[@FoodLoversTV]

Establishments like these need our support in these trying times. 🙏

[@vijaykumarpaida8935]

@@FoodLoversTV doing a very good job sir, thank u

[@roshanbaig5729]

@@FoodLoversTV really people like you need to this society kripal Anna. Excellent work may Allah bless you.

[@khalidhussain3533]

Kripal sir you're a humble man, who is helping small restaurants like noon's, polamma mess and trying to put some light on the tasty food found in these small establishments...

[@sivareddy9425]

Hotel owner is so humble..my heart shrunk when he talked about his past..GOD bless these people n I truly hope they will be back on track ASAP🙏❤️ Salute to sir for supporting these people 🙏

[@chandrashekar-kg7oi]

Kripal Amanna these days are helping hoteliers who are having difficult time This is a service to the Society Bravo sir🙏👌👌

[@lekshaavanii1822]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@lethasaitejas889]

Andhra meals is heaven 😋😋. This video is like a cherry on top of cake ..

[@vignesh1328]

Good lord! Christ University memories. 😀😀 The Biriyani here is just ❤️❤️❤️

[@vidurnair]

Limited meals used to be Rs 60

[@KomarashettySrinivas]

Just visited the polamma mess after watching food lover channel on KZbin .I am from Pune and just came Bangalore for my family work ,so visit the place along with my family. I really got some different taste to eat. I will not say the food is good or bad but I enjoyed the food. I have ordered Andhra meal ,mutton biryani ,chicken boneless biryani ,Andhra chilli chicken and chicken fry and Gulab Jamun. I really enjoyed. Service was fast good hospitality.

[@SupremeRepairs]

ಅದ್ಭುತವಾದ ಸುಂದರವಾದ ಶುಚಿ ರುಚಿಯಾದ ಬಾಯಲ್ಲಿ ನೀರೂರಿಸುವ ವಿಡಿಯೋ 😋😋👃👍👌🌹❤️

[@ashuumudunuri3760]

this place is so underated i d k why..it has so much good dishes...i m from andhra i will definitely try out here

[@ashagowda9326]

Not underrated but due to pandemic situation theyr facing issues. Regular near by visits i guess.. but we love such mealz ,we used to visit such eateries wen we were working in office.. we love southy food lot.. spcly the meals 😍😍😍😋😋😋

[@supriyanarnavar8438]

Anyone know address?

[@pratapkumarn5290]

I stayed near to the mess for 3 years and everyday there was a long queue in the noon time due to good quality of food and maintenance was awesome.. Due to pandamic Suitation, they're going through tough time....

[@user.0912_]

@@supriyanarnavar8438 its back lane of Accenture which is opposite to Christ University on the way dairy circle road. However use Google to make sure exact location

[@amsaiteja]

It was a treat to watch. Its high time to start "KRIPAL Anna Fans Association" in Hyderabad.

[@naren2k6]

Andhra food is not for the faint of heart, its potent. Great video Ji.

[@akshaykumar-gj2pb]

Lots of respect for you kripal for covering such places and helping them in these pandemic times

[@srikanthrv6847]

No meal can beat the satisfaction of an Andhra meal!!❤️

[@Barbieliciousgal]

చాలా అద్భుతంగా ఉన్నాయి అన్ని వంటకాలు,మీ పొల్లమ్మ మెస్ ఇంకా బాగా అభివృద్ధి చెందాలని కోరుకుంటున్నాం.🙏

[@shilpapammi6588]

Visited it yesterday after watching your review, sir. Andhra meals and non-veg starters are yummy.

[@b.vikramsimha3119]

Please share the address of the hotel mam🙏

[@nirus3265]

@@b.vikramsimha3119 opp to Christ collage ,next to accentuate

[@anjaneyulub1957]

1) Hats off to Mr. Kripal Amanna for covering this small (tiny place equally when compare to Oberoi, Bengaluru) place called Polamma mess. 2) I wish to mention one important quality about Shri Kripal is that he is covering and explaining beautifully all Veg and Non- veg items equally. 3) He must have really enjoyed Annam& Gun powder with Ghee and Annam &Thotakura pappu with other pickles like Gongura pickle. 4) Over all his presentation is Excellent.

[@kulayivineeth4931]

There are people who do food review.. But there are only few who look after the people behind that food.. u r a pure soul sir!!.. RESPECT

[@ashimabdul]

Went to ths mess after watching this video. Trust me it was the best Andhra meals I had in Bangalore in a long time. Thank you :)

[@inderpalmatharu5791]

I never used to eat curry leaves, just leave aside but since I saw Kripal bhai eating curry leaves I started liking. Ha ha ha..

[@AMIN35000]

Curry leaves full of iron

[@SriramThala]

The most honest and modest food reviewer of our times.

[@hbp2384]

Great work Krupal Amman gaaru. I have been watching your videso since many days. But wat u r doing now is quite appreciable. Really n really. People like u supports such small n genuine eateries in this crisis time is the best thing u r doing. And a great video. People needs it. Grear work again. Never expected this angle in u. 🙏

[@nitin00730]

Sir you have made sure that such establishments don't phase out and the locals get the real taste and help such establishments to prosper, keep up the great work.

[@triples5399]

2 reasons I watch 1) Food 2) English coaching 😅😂

[@triples5399]

@RISHAB GOWDA RAGHUNANDA ya

[@vandanabalan4070]

😂😂😂...english coaching definitely

[@erer782]

Apart from this I love to watch the host 🤠

[@laglorialafenishmai]

gesture too

[@rameshsaligram7496]

The way Kripal Amanna narrates the food is Excellent.

[@manojrawat1745]

Hi I am ur big foody fan from chandigarh. I love the way u represents the eatery. Along with ur choice of eateries I am a fan of ur English language.

[@santoshram1311]

Thank you for promoting this restaurant which actually serving good food and which definitely deserves this kind of support and publicity in this pandemic situation.... Santosh from Andhrapradesh.... Thank you kripal and team👍👍🙏🙏

[@SMOSH0LOYALTY]

One of the best things of being a Christite was that pollamas was right next to our university. 150 Rs and a perfect lunch done.

[@ramyasubramanyam3154]

Christite😋

[@SMOSH0LOYALTY]

@@ramyasubramanyam3154 yes 👍

[@ontisalaga1789]

And kairali mess

[@DB09198523]

I would suggest , if possible, for ex-students to come together and help this establishment if they are struggling.

[@bhagya528]

This mess outbeats any Andhra restaurant by far. No match except Annapurna hotel in Gandhi Nagar and Hyderabad's Kakatiya mess. This is one among my favourites of those 3 mentioned.

[@adarshs4553]

Kripal ur doing a really great job, not only by the unbiased rating, but also by encouraging and getting into limelight the lesser known culinary of India. Hats off to u!

[@shashikalak6312]

Food looks great kripal sir, helping so many people in this difficult situation....you have so much of blessing s from all these people and from the viewers..amazing video

[@raghukulkarni90]

Kripala.. You have become messiah for these eateries.. Just like sonu sood you are also doing really great job.. Hats off..

[@jeanne25ful]

When the skies and borders are open, I'm raring to get to India esp after all these wonderful reviews by you, Sir!

[@rajivaditya6657]

Lots of appreciation to your sir for endorsing such eating places

[@mohanmoni2014]

I got tears seeing the current situation of such people struggling to survive

[@Ananth_Setty]

Underrated restaurant, christ memories 😁

[@rameshsaligram7496]

Kripal Amanna, hats off to you for your social service when food industry is in trouble. People will remember your service ....🙏👍

[@gouthamappu2014]

Just finished my breakfast but after watching your video felling hungry again 😁😁😁

[@sangu_geetun4183]

Love Andhra meals with the famous thick pappu daal and a non-veg accompaniment. Yummy....will surely visit...😍

[@jshaan75]

Big time Christ memories. We would feel lucky to get a seat here during the lunch hours.

[@dhanushanandhakrishnan8753]

This place is amazing. Whenever we need to have good meals, we go there. Crowded always, so sad to see this place empty.

[@pratap203206]

Kripala sir . Your are very good hearted encouraging in these times to those people's are very important

[@krishnaannapragada7259]

Andhra Veg meals, specially at those places where food is served on banana leaf with podi, ghee and gongura pickle on the side is one of the best things in South India...

[@idduboyinaramu2414]

Yes bro Andhra meal is heaven

[@advikanandhini3318]

Awesome taste... all the items are good

[@AJ-tp4wg]

*!!! WARNING !!! - Never watch this when you are hungry*

[@theexplorer9012]

😂😿😹😹

[@krishnaannapragada7259]

Good point😀

[@kirubakaran777r9]

😂😂😂

[@Naren6867]

Yeah it's true

[@gautamvishwanatham7512]

Watching this makes me hungry

[@worldofdecode9972]

What I like about Kripal's videos: 30%- Food😁 70%- His vocabulary 😎

[@vijaymathpal]

Beautiful❤ memories here this was our rescue during Christ to have hygienic, tasty and hot food after a tiring day. Would have really walked🚶👣👣 down there to eat if I was in Bangalore. But this place certainly needs to be appreciated and this is the lifeline of many people. Hope things gets better next year.

[@gurudathshenoy6478]

Kudos to you for featuring. When our offices were open and we were working from office, we used to go here regularly. One of the best Mess's we have Bangalore. I will go again now too.

[@SupremeRepairs]

Thumbnail is Really Mouthwatering 😋😋😋😋😋

[@wolfenstein1369]

An eardent food lover with ensemble blend of English dictionary and an awesome amalgamation of expression with a good heart to help the needy at this hour..keep going sir..u rock..

[@lakshmiprasanna9077]

You seem like to be his student😂😂

[@guna501]

I used to eat here daily during my Tenure at Tech Mahindra.. Simple and authentic Andhra.. Pocket friendly.. Good job Kripal.. Will visit Pollamma once I'm back to Bangalore..

[@sairajuk9753]

This show deserves to be on OTT.

[@Nikk917]

What is *yOuThOOb* then

[@rajeshtelang4910]

Doing a very good job supporting eateries like this hats off to you

[@delnashahunabaindur277]

Firstly thanks to the youngster who alerted you about Pollamas and Big Thank You to you for taking the recco and making the effort which from the looks of the video totally worth the visit here😀 For sure will visit them over the weekend and enjoy the yumm stuff

[@FoodLoversTV]

Happy eating, Delna!

[@subathrashekar3105]

Am from Chennai, following your Food lovers"TV, for months, your selected hotels, description of the hotel &menu is really superb 👍, very useful info to the people new to the place, the presentation, encouragement amezing, I like only the vegetarian hotels ,thank you so much dear Kripal bro! VAZGHA VALAMUDAN!👍

[@rajivrozario5954]

Christites, lets March on to Polamma's ❤

[@AMIN35000]

Christies

[@soumyadipmukherjee6627]

What's that

[@maomurali]

చాలా మంచి వీడియో సర్ ...సూపర్ మీరు కృపాల్ సర్

[@KowshikMaridi]

Nenu kuda banglore lo telugu food reviews chestunna... Na channel ni okasari chudNdi

[@shreyasbhaskar9677]

The owner of this place is really very humble and the service is toooo damn good

[@haripavanmadireddy8005]

Hi sir...I love your channel alot.... Not only me my family loves the channel.... Every day atleast once all family watch your video....we all love the way you explains the taste 😁😁😁

[@karthikpppp]

Delicious Food, felt like eating while watching your video. Excellent Sir.

[@darshanram9421]

Great job kripal sir...👏Guy plz do support these kind of small eateries in this pandemic..Many good eateries wch use to sell at reasonable price have been closed permanently... Do support 🙏🙏🙏

[@dilipc1426]

Fantastic food video sir👍 Fantastic couple's good food 🙏Telugu food is always special in India 😋😋😋

[@dulagadu]

Welcome to andra food 🥘 🥰🎵🥰🥰😘😘😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️

[@keerthikalyan386]

Very nice to see kripal sir eating our own Andhra food...by saying the names out.."thotakura pappu", "pappula podi","neyyi"..enjoyed very much when u say those names. Sir...I have a doubt ...what you do with the remained food..? Thankyou sir.

[@tharunkumar5378]

Great to see our Andhra Food in your videos 🥰

[@Swathiskitchen739]

The way you are supporting these tiny eateries is appreciable

[@aswani5858]

we went to this mess on Saturday 19th Dec 2020. Three things that we liked: 1. Food (we had veg meals). Simple no nonsense tasty food which fills your stomach, easy on your wallet. We even got couple of extra packets of podi :) packed to home. Tastes nothing less than any costly Andhra restaurants. 2. Service: Even though they don't look like those fancy servers in "rich" restaurants, they KNOW how to serve food on a banana leaf and they are super responsive to your needs. And one thing they got it correct is the amount they serve. I was content after my meal not over full or left hungry which I was never able to achieve in other restaurants. 3. The owner: Even thought the place was so busy he was so calm and working along with his staff, not just sitting and collecting money. Who doesn't like a hard working man! And man they do work hard. They constantly run between floors to get food from upstairs to down. !!! Only one thing that one needs to be careful about is Parking. Better come by two wheeler.

[@ramachandranranganathrao9946]

All the other food vlogers visit hi fi and established restaurants but Sir Kripal is cut above the rest no words to express his yemon helping hand in this pandemic period Hats Off.

[@AMIN35000]

Andhra meals are the best in India 👍

[@SuperArjoon]

On my way the coming weekend. Thanks Kripal for letting the society know of this! Appreciate your efforts

[@iamharnad]

Thank you for encouraging small businesses

[@donategood]

great to see your team helping the restraunts in need and I am really happy to support this with a small contribution. Thank you for what your guys are doing.

[@rajulapatinagababu]

Hats Off to your effort sir love from andhra

[@tanushree1052]

It's really mouth watering dishes,one after another delicious dishes are being served.

[@karthikv5818]

bro you need to ask andhra guys how to eat andhra meals ... you missed one delicious item with that pappu..next time mix avakaya pickle in to that pappu with big amount of ghee....its means heaven...

[@tanushree1052]

Quality as well as quantity of the meal is very appreciable. 👍👍

[@tanushree1052]

It's a pleasure to see having such a delicious meal.👌👌

[@TheSatya999]

Kripal Amanna Sir !! Hatsoff !! Have been following ur food videos quite some time. I must say this time couldnt resist myself to put my comments. The way u articulate abt the food wat u eat literally gives nice feel to viewers & some times mouth watering. In a way these tough times u r helping those eateries to get bck their rush times to reaching thru ur videos. Finally the content presentation is a benchmark fr others to replicate !! Kudos to U !!

[@pavanchikkerur472]

Kripal Sir, this video is definitely going to help the Polamma Mess in a big way in the current situation. Nice to see you helping these eateries in your own way. 🙏🙏

[@abidhussain6409]

Kripal,you are doing yeoman service to all these lesser known eateries who are struggling to find business during these tough times.

[@dileepb5181]

Thank you Kripal for another heart warming video. I wish best of luck for Jagadish and hope they get back to previous glory soon. You are one of my favorite food critic because you can review the food from a 5 star restaurant and also from a mess like this one. Hats off

[@sureshm4381]

Polammas food is delicious 😋. That pappu, gun powder and ghee is needless to say. Finger kicking taste. Chilli chicken and rasam combination is another best. Hope this eatery regain its glory.

[@malininatarajan4739]

Sir I'm a big fan of all your shows and admire the way you describe the dish. Though being in London, would definitely like to visit all these places in my next visit. One thing I would like to know is how do you maintain to remain so fit, despite your appetite for food. Please answer this either in your next episode or here.

[@mygardenhobby2906]

Hi,sir I'm your big fan You are such a humble n happy soul,helping the poor...it really helps them out...thank you so much for this vlog

[@davidsimon9089]

Kripal, your efforts to revive their dying business worked so well that while you were still in the process of filming your show, the crowd started trickling in and the place lit up.

[@jimmymoses4721]

Being a Andhra guy i can understand what you eating and how much your enjoying it. Please visit Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh, which is 190kms from Bengaluru. I will show the best eateries around. Looking forward !!

[@Belliappa_M.U]

This is one of my favourite mess been to this place its simple and fulfilling andra meals

[@jagdishpattnaik8083]

Reasonable price beautiful mouth watering food.....will visit in future for sure🔥🔥🔥

[@FoodLoversTV]

Happy eating, Jagdish.

[@manojkothwal3586]

Been here had the most delicious vegetarian meal ever ❤️

[@iamharnad]

Not every Andhra hotel serves amaranth dal. When you have it, enjoy the meal!

[@kumargupta8598]

I learn from kripal how to eat.

[@krish151083]

I salute you for the efforts you make to try to bail out such establishments in such tough times. God Bless!

[@pavanKumar-wt1rz]

The owner, Jagadeesh is so welcoming, and very interactive, have had food so many times, have some great memories, the food is just outstanding. Especially the pappu and rice. The staff is also good.

[@dilipmys]

Hi Kripal Hats off to you for all the work you are doing in this pandemic supporting the establishments .

[@Mahesh_wiz]

Nice video Kripal sir. As usual with amazing articulation. Hope u cross 500k soon and reach 1M soon. All the best.. 😄

[@vijayv05]

Appreciate your desire to help these people. I had been to Halaguru to eat bamboo idly at Babu's hotel. On the way back tasted few idly's at Kote Idly hotel in Kanakapura. I was surprised by the fact that each idly costs just INR 2.50/-. Although price is so less there is no compromise on quality, hygiene and taste of the food. Many people from Bangalore drive to this place during weekends to taste these idly's. This is one of the popular eatery. You can try this eatery once if it is feasible.

[@soujandps7843]

Too good description ,,,and good gesture to help out that humble gentleman..

[@sureshm4381]

Thank you Kripal Sir for supporting such places. You deserves 1M subscribers.

[@Jaisriram5799]

krupal Sir... the way you pronounce the Telugu words... Adds more to the video. You have a great voice as well.... Stay blessed.

[@Vigneshphotography]

Great to see you Support Such Small Eateries Kripal Sir.. @Food Lovers TV

[@MrYatish123]

Love from Chhattisgarh❤️ Always loves your videos, excited for next video.

[@funandentertainment7373]

Ohh finally...someone put a video about polamma's, me and my colleagues used to go here everyday, for me this is the best veg meals place in bangalore. Likes of Nagarjuna, Meghana definitely good but polamma's is lobe.....