Restaurants & Food
8 New Restaurants In Bengaluru For Michelin-Recommended Thai Food, Cosy Bars & Japanese Fare
If there’s any city that lives, breathes and passionately doom scrolls the newest food experiences, that’s got to be Bengaluru. Take it from a fellow Bengalurean! If you’re not checking up on the newest spots to hit this weekend, then what are you even doing? This August, we’ve curated a list of 8 new restaurants in Bengaluru you must visit. Our curated guided features a Michelin-recommended Thai spot, cosy bars with laid back vibes, and exquisite Japanese restaurants.
8 New Restaurants In Bengaluru To Check Out This August
1. Kalpaney
South Bengaluru’s love affair with elevated vegetarian food continues! This time, Kalpaney, meaning ‘imagination’ in Kannada, has made its way to JP Nagar. A restaurant that takes your breath away with its restrained grandeur, nostalgic flavours presented in innovative fashion lingers with you long after the gastronomical experience. On the menu, you’ll find Dal Dhokli Reimagined (dhoklis are turned into tagliatelle), Nadru Seekh (seekh kebab made of lotus stem) and Feta Meets Dahi Bhalla.
Where: Shop 07, Phase 5, Marenahalli Road, JP Nagar, Bangalore
When: 12 pm to 4 pm and 7 pm to 11 pm
Cost: ₹1600 for two approx.
2. Gladia Brewery & Kitchen
Bringing ancient Roman grandeur to modern Bengaluru, Gladia Brewery & Kitchen promises theatrical cocktails, a menu spanning Italian classics, South Indian flavours and a setting that takes you out of Bengaluru and into Rome. A 15-foot gladiator guards the arena while a Tree of Wisdom rises proudly. It’s a whimsical and narrative-driven space for those craving edgy dinners over deeply comforting food.
Where: Sarjapur Main Rd, opposite Keerthi Regalia, Kaikondrahalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560035
When: 12 pm to 1 am
Cost: ₹1500 for two approx.
3. Katana
Indiranagar has just got an exclusive 45-seater sake and shochu cocktail bar that bridges Japanese tradition with Bengaluru’s modern palate. Katana is inspired by traditional izakayas that boast state-of-the-art Japanese fare, a warm atmosphere and dishes that push the envelope. It’s the kind of space you sink into, while finding comfort in shokupan toast and spicy salmon rice. The endlessly inviting space lets you unwind over sake and mellow beats.
Where: Ground Floor, No. 3168, Indiranagar Double Road, HAL 2nd Stage, Bengaluru, Karnataka – 560008
When: 6 pm to 11 pm
Cost: ₹4,000 for two approx.
4. Hunaaan
After having served Bengalureans pan-Asian delights for 18 years, Hunaaan has now opened its second outpost in Indiranagar. The new chapter includes a 40-seater space, a dazzling new menu of Korean, Thai and Japanese flavours, going beyond their Chinese signatures. At Hunaaan, there’s a range of small plates to choose from like Hunaaan Baby Potato, Thai Lemon Basil Tofu, and mains like Guangdong Chicken and Tianjin Lamb.
Where: 2nd Floor, #3162, 60 feet, 12th Cross Rd, HAL 2nd Stage, Defence Colony, Indira Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560008
When: 12 to 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm to 12 am
Cost: ₹1,800 for two approx.
5. DYN
DYN is Hilton Bangalore Embassy GolfLinks’s new all-day dining destination. So, whether it’s a working lunch, a quiet dinner or a lively brunch, DYN’s kitchen, a living canvas, has got you covered. Dim sums folded to perfection, slow-grilled Middle Eastern veggies, and even a simmering Kerala fish curry will leave you polishing your plates. DYN has a tap bar where cocktails are curated from Indian botanicals and craft beers complement the refined plates.
Where: DYN, Hilton Bangalore Embassy GolfLinks
When: 7 am to 11 pm
Cost: ₹2800 for two onwards
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6. Baan Phadthai
Bangkok-based Baan Phadthai, which has been in the Michelin guide for five consecutive years, has now made its debut in Bengaluru! We’re not excited, you are!!! The 50-year-old, Michelin-recognised restaurant is the ‘house of Pad Thai’. Bengalureans, you don’t have to book a flight for a plate of Michelin-worthy Pad Thai, just drive down to Indiranagar, make a reservation for one of its two-hour slots and nosh on their Prawn Phad Thai, made with their special 18-ingredient sauce, Pandan Toast with Coconut Ice Cream and more.
Where: 12th Main Rd, Doopanahalli, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560008
When: 7 to 12 am
Cost: ₹2000 for two approx.
7. Tommy’s
Giving old-school vibes is Tommy’s, a no-frills neighbourhood bar in Bengaluru, that sits on the same site that nested a watering hole since 1966. Tommy’s pays homage to its storied past, particularly, the legendary HAL Bar where it now stands on. A vibe mistakenly Bangalore, strong drinks and food without fuss is what’s on the cards here. The 120-seater everyday bar has cassette-tiled walls, old-music posters and even a handcrafted Rock-Ola jukebox. Here, nostalgia is celebrated in every decor, every brew and every bite.
Where: 1st floor, No. 89, AM Plaza, HAL Old Airport Rd, Murugeshpalya, Konena Agrahara, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560017
When: 6 pm to 12: 3o am
Cost: ₹1400 for two onwards
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8. EDO
ITC Gardenia’s EDO Restaurant & Bar has opened doors with a dynamic concept and refreshed look. Bringing the popular Japanese izakaya culture to Namma Bengaluru, at EDO, small plates offering a deeper, textural cuisine reign supreme. There’s Yaki Nasu( charred eggplant with miso), sweet potato tempura, and a robust Japanese curry, served in a relaxed setting. Let the food, music and art converge and transport you to the buzzing streets of Tokyo!
Where: 1, Residency Rd, Ashok Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560025
When: 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm and 6:30 pm and 11:30 pm
Cost: ₹4500 for two onwards
Bengalureans, which of these cool new restaurants in Bengaluru will you visit first this August?
Cover Image Courtesy: Supplied/ Gladia Brewery & Instagram/baanphadthai
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First Published: July 29, 2025 5:16 PM
What Do Restaurant Inspectors Look For?
Each inspection report is a “snapshot” of conditions present at the restaurant at the time of the inspection.
Ginny Beagan, Wochit
You can use the database to search by county or by restaurant name.
Florida’s restaurant owners are not required to post restaurant inspection results where guests can see them. So every week, we provide that information for you.
For a complete list of local restaurant inspections, including violations not requiring warnings or administrative action, visit our Indian River County restaurant inspections site.
Here’s the breakdown for recent health inspections in Indian River County, Florida, for the week of July 28-Aug. 3, 2025. Please note that some more recent, follow-up inspections may not be included here.
Disclaimer: The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation describes an inspection report as a ‘snapshot’ of conditions present at the time of the inspection. On any given day, an establishment may have fewer or more violations than noted in their most recent inspection. An inspection conducted on any given day may not be representative of the overall, long-term conditions at the establishment.
For full restaurant inspection details, visit our Indian River County restaurant inspection site.
Which Indian River County restaurants had high priority violations?
5135 20th St., Unit 108, Vero Beach
Routine Inspection on July 31
Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.
11 total violations, with 4 high-priority violations
- High Priority – Employee began working with food, handling clean equipment or utensils, or touching unwrapped single-service items without first washing hands. Employee began working with wontons without washing hands. Educated manager **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
- High Priority – Live, small flying insects found 3 live flies in kitchen **Warning**
- High Priority – Raw animal food stored over/not properly separated from ready-to-eat food. -raw chicken over veggies in cook line cooler – boxes of raw chicken stored next to raw cabbage in tall cooler. Advised employee to separate **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
- High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Raw chicken 61f. Cold holding. Tofu 51f cold holding. ; In reach in cooler. Door was not fully shut. Advised to rapid chill cooked noodles (73F); cut cabbage (89F) sitting out on counter. Employee states it was sitting out for 45 minutes. Employee moved to freezer to rapid chill **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
3450 Ocean Drive, Vero Beach
Complaint Inspection on July 29
Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.
7 total violations, with 3 high-priority violations
- High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Small reach in-Rice 48f. Shrimp salad 48f. Cut tomatoes 49f. Hot dogs 48f all cold holding for 3 hours. Manager moved to rapid chill. Tall single door cooler- Tall stainless cooler- Cheese 47f cold holding. . ; shaved beef (51F – Cold Holding); salmon (44F – Cold Holding); burgers (44F – Cold Holding) Manager states they just had busy lunch. All items have been in coolers for 3 hours. Advised to rapid chill all items. Advised to have coolers checked for issues and temperature turned down on units Salad cooler- cut lettuce 51f. Ranch 48f. Blue cheese dressing 47f. Cold holding. Walk in cooler – coleslaw 46f. **Repeat Violation** **Admin Complaint**
- High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. mushrooms (122F – Hot Holding); onions (122F – Hot Holding) in steam table for 1 hour-advised to reheat **Corrective Action Taken**
- High Priority – Toxic substance/chemical improperly stored. Bleach spray stored on rack with bread.Employee removed **Corrected On-Site**
3450 Ocean Drive, Vero Beach
Complaint Inspection on July 30
Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.
5 total violations, with 1 high-priority violation
- High Priority – – From initial inspection : High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food, other than whole meat roast, hot held at less than 135 degrees Fahrenheit. mushrooms (122F – Hot Holding); onions (122F – Hot Holding) in steam table for 1 hour-advised to reheat **Corrective Action Taken** – From follow-up inspection 2025-07-30: **Time Extended**
725 S.W. 27th Ave., Suite C, Vero Beach
Routine Inspection on July 30
Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.
9 total violations, with 1 high-priority violation
- High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Spinach sauce 46f. Operator states employee moved stuff around in cooler 1 hour ago. Item was moved to walk in to chill Pizza cooler- Chicken 48f. Tomatoes 52f. Cheese 48f. Ham 48f all cold holding for 1 hour **Corrective Action Taken** **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
1285 U.S. 1, Vero Beach
Routine Inspection on July 28
Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.
4 total violations, with 1 high-priority violation
- High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Marinara sauce 51f. Meat sauce 71f. Cream sauce 49f. ; peas 53f all – Cold Holding 3.5hours. Employee added items to ice to rapid chill **Corrective Action Taken** **Warning**
2121 14th Ave., Vero Beach
Routine Inspection on July 30
Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.
3 total violations, with 1 high-priority violation
- High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Blue cheese 44-47f. In service 1.5 hours; Advised to add more ice to ice bath. **Corrective Action Taken**
762 21st St., Vero Beach
Routine Inspection on July 29
Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.
12 total violations, with 3 high-priority violations
- High Priority – Dishmachine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength. Discontinue use of dishmachine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dishmachine is repaired and sanitizing properly. Reading 0ppm. Operator had detergent hooked up instead of sanitizer. Swapped chemicals and primed. Reading 0ppm **Warning**
- High Priority – Live, small flying insects found 2 live flies in kitchen **Warning**
- High Priority – Stop Sale issued due to food not being in a wholesome, sound condition. Salmon thawed in ROP in walk in cooler states to remove prior to thawing
2855 Ocean Drive, Suite B1, Vero Beach
Routine Inspection on July 28
Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.
1 total violation, with 1 high-priority violation
- High Priority – – From initial inspection : High Priority – Dishmachine chlorine sanitizer not at proper minimum strength. Discontinue use of dishmachine for sanitizing and set up manual sanitization until dishmachine is repaired and sanitizing properly. Reading 0ppm at bar. Primed and ran three times. Still reading 0ppm **Repeat Violation** **Warning** – From follow-up inspection 2025-07-28: Eco lab is scheduled to come out this afternoon**Time Extended** **Time Extended**
709 U.S. 1, Sebastian
Routine Inspection on July 30
Follow-Up Inspection Required: Violations require further review, but are not an immediate threat to the public.
12 total violations, with 2 high-priority violations
- High Priority – Dented/rusted cans present. See stop sale. 1 dented can of oyster sauce
- High Priority – Time/temperature control for safety food cold held at greater than 41 degrees Fahrenheit. Raw pooled egg 52F recommend to rapid chill. Rechecked egg 41F **Corrected On-Site**
What agency inspects restaurants in Florida?
Routine regulation and inspection of restaurants is conducted by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The Department of Health is responsible for investigation and control of food-borne illness outbreaks associated with all food establishments.
How do I report a dirty restaurant in Florida?
If you see abuses of state standards, report them and the Department of Business and Professional Regulation will send inspectors. Call the Florida DBPR at 850-487-1395 or report a restaurant for health violations online.
Get the whole story at our restaurant inspection database.
What does all that terminology in Florida restaurant inspections mean?
Basic violations are those considered against best practices.
A warning is issued after an inspector documents violations that must be corrected by a certain date or within a specified number of days from receipt of the inspection report.
An administrative complaint is a form of legal action taken by the division. Insufficient compliance after a warning, a pattern of repeat violations or existence of serious conditions that warrant immediate action may result in the division initiating an administrative complaint against the establishment. Says the division website: “Correcting the violations is important, but penalties may still result from violations corrected after the warning time was over.”
An emergency order — when a restaurant is closed by the inspector — is based on an immediate threat to the public. Here, the Division of Hotels and Restaurants director has determined that the establishment must stop doing business and any division license is suspended to protect health, safety or welfare of the public.
A 24-hour call-back inspection will be performed after an emergency closure or suspension of license.
The owners of a longtime Short Pump-area Indian restaurant have branched into Chesterfield.
Last month Jassi Singh and Charanjeet Ghotra opened Rutba Indian Kitchen at 13822 Village Place Drive in the Midlothian Village Square shopping center.
Rutba is Singh and Ghotra’s second local restaurant, joining Anokha Unique Cuisine of India, which they opened near Short Pump Town Center in 2008. The duo also own two restaurants in Charlottesville, Milan Indian Restaurant and Kanak Indian Kitchen.
Ghotra said Rutba’s menu is similar to Kanak’s with classics like butter chicken, samosas and grilled kebabs, along with Chukundari kofta, which is a vegetarian take on meatballs with beetroots, and the Paneer Bhatura, a type of bread that’s stuffed with Indian cheese and spices.
“We have a lot of dishes that we had created (at Kanak) that are very popular there, and people here like them as well,” Ghotra said.
Entrees at Rutba range from around $17 to $25, and it also offers a variety of Indian beers and wines, as well as a full cocktail menu.
Rutba restaurant debuted in mid-July and is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner.
Last year Singh and Ghotra purchased Rutba’s 3,000-square-foot Village Place Drive building, which was formerly a Wendy’s, for $1.2 million, according to county records. They converted the space from a fast-food joint to a sit-down restaurant with the help of Fultz & Singh Architects.
Singh and Ghotra have been in the industry for decades, starting out in restaurants in New York and Virginia Beach in the 1990s. They’ve opened four restaurants over the course of over 20 years, first with Milan in Charlottesville in 2003, and prior to Rutba, their most recent opening was in early 2020 with Kanak.
Ghotra said he and Singh always make sure their restaurants are stable and successful before moving onto another.
“If you can’t handle it properly, then there’s no point in opening (a restaurant) then closing it, right?” he said.
Rutba and Midlothian Village Square are just a mile down the street from Winterfield Crossing, which just signed on Stella’s Grocery as its newest food tenant.
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Restaurants use unsafe colouring agent: Karnataka minister on quality food | Latest News India
Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Monday appealed to people not to be “fooled” by attractive and colourful dishes, but to insist on safe and quality food.
He cited the recent testing of six samples belonging to the Empire Group of Restaurants, which turned out to be unsafe due to the use of banned synthetic colouring.
“Despite repeated warnings, the restaurant group continued to use the unsafe colouring agent. Only after legal notices were sent did the colour go from red to yellow,” the health minister told reporters during his weekly media briefing.
There was no response from the Empire Group of Restaurants.
According to the minister, better quality food and drugs can become the norm only if people insist on quality goods.
“Yes, the government needs to do its part and tackle this legally, but people too should cultivate quality conscious as culture,” he said.
The minister also said the health department held a video conference on July 30 with cooking oil manufacturers to insist that the trans-fat level should not exceed 2 per cent.
“We told them that if it exceeds 2 per cent, strong action will be taken against them,” he added.
Dinesh Gundu Rao said the oil manufacturers were also urged to sell used cooking oil (UCO) to manufacturers like Pyrene Industries, which converts UCO into biodiesel.
According to 2024-25 data, 28,73,124 litres of UCO were used to manufacture biodiesel and soap, he said.
“We want this figure to increase substantially so that UCO does not go back into the market for cooking purposes,” he added.
Rao said the Karnataka government has merged the enforcement division of Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani (ASU) medicines under the AYUSH Department, as well as the existing AYUSH drug testing laboratory in Bengaluru, with Drug Control Division of the Food Safety and Drug Administration Department for better functioning of the Health Department.
According to him, the government’s proposed app to control drug safety is expected to be functional by the end of this month.
“With this app, we can immediately withdraw defective drugs, as we can track at distributor level. So, we can put an immediate stop to further sale of that drug,” said the minister.
He said, once the app is in force, they will expand its scope. “Next will be to take it to the pharmacy level. We want to onboard every pharmacy on the app,” he added.
At present, the recall procedure takes two days, he said, citing the recent recall of nearly 40 lakh drugs in two days.
“This too, we had made a breakthrough with the help of a software. Earlier, it used to take nearly 30 days to recall batches of failed drugs from the market,” he added.
The minister also said work is progressing at expected pace in bringing the private ambulances and mobile medical units under the ambit of Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (KPME) Act. “We will be coming out with an amendment soon,” he added.
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