BENGALURU: The Rooftop Cafe on 11th Main in Jayanagar IV Block not only offers a variety of delicacies but also lets you burn your calories. Perched on the second floor, the airy café ensures you earn your treat as you scale the flights of stairs. However, for those who feel there’s no guilt in gluttony, there’s an elevator to take them to the top.
Once a backstreet in Jayanagar, 11th Main today is home to some of the biggest brands and is said to command the highest real estate prices. But the only thing high about the Rooftop Cafe is its elevation. Though it’s high up on the second floor, it has managed to price its specialties like pizzas, rolls and sandwiches moderately.
Launched about six months ago, the café, in its menu states that it is a modern café with a difference.
Techies, students and families chat merrily as they munch and sip the orders brought to their tables by friendly waiters.
You can choose a table along the perimeter of the café, commanding an unrestricted view of the busy road below or one at the centre, amid all the action. Pick from a range of starters as diverse as the vada pav, French fries, potato wedges, masala fries, smileys, nachos and toasts, or pizzas like the tri-pepper with a topping of green, red and yellow peppers, tandoori paneer tikka pizza with a desi twist, the Roof Top special that’s made of “garden fresh” vegetables like mushroom, bell pepper, onion, corn and tomato. Burgers include the desi sabzi burger, rolls like mixed sabzi roll, paneer haryali roll, egg-n-mayo roll, egg burji roll, sandwiches, desserts and sundaes.
“Rooftop Café is a casual dining experience offering fun food. We have given popular dishes like pizzas and burgers and Indian twist,” says Suhas Upadhya K S. He adds that customers are assured of hygienic food in a high tech ambience.
“We have a live, open kitchen that offers a view of our hygienic practices and procedures,” adds Upadhya. The kitchen boasts the latest European equipment, says Upadhya and credits his chairman Gopady Srinivas Rao for the entire concept.
On the ground floor, the café has its bakery, the Cake Wala, which offers popular bakery items like its Royal Black Forest and the mixed veg roll. “The bakery too in equipped with European technology like the display cabinet and ovens, but the customer can select from a range of items whose prices start from as low as `20, comparable to any street corner bakery,” says Upadhya.
The café and bakery are open seven days a week from 11 am to 10.30 pm.