Savera Cafe

4 Reviews on “Savera Cafe”

• Hathim Hanif

  A typical old style sulaimani tea stall. You can find a lots of people gathered anytime you visit. Not really hygenic. But the place has its own signature in everything.

  June 2, 2020, 4:02 am

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• Hogging Beast

  Me and one of my friend had gone for a night out and my craving for good tea is unbearable sometimes. I am very much a chai person. So he took me to this small tea shop and what else can I say other than WOW in bold letters. This is the best tea i have ever tasted. This will definitely be my tea adda from now on.

  May 26, 2020, 12:15 am

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• Nabeel Akram

  Shivaji Nagar – Hope for late night food in bangalore. During Ramdan time its a must visit place in Bangalore. Not only Ramadan, late night if you cravings for street food in bangalore then head to Shivaji Nagar. Savera cafe very famous place where you will get special bombay tea and sweets . Till 2 u will get items from here. VFM place sweets will cost only 10 to 20 bucks, go to this place if you r sweet tooth . Their Badsusha , rasagula are must try items . You will get sheekh rolls n kebabs too

  March 1, 2020, 12:16 am

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• Chowder Singh

  I’ve been going to Savera Tea Centre in Shivaji Nagar since 1998 for my doses of midnight chai. But the place’s been around for much more. I was 23 when I moved to Bangalore and in those days wasn’t too much into discovery of food, inspite of working as a chef at the flight catering unit at the old HAL airport. The focus then was more on friends, drinks and partying. The food bit came in much laterI was doing some reading up on Shivaji Nagar and was surprised to know that it’s original name was Blackpalli. Bangalore because of its lovely weather became one of the biggest British cantonments in the South somewhere in the early 1800’s when the British shifted base from Srirangapatnam to here. There’s are two three schools of thought on why the name Blackpalli. One of them was because of a certain Black rice variety grown in the fields around this area. This seems a bit unlikely as Karnataka isn’t really known for any specific variety of black riceAnother line of thought says that Billi Akki means white rice in Kannada and the fields here were known to have produced a particularly ‘snow white’ colour of rice variety. Hence the name Billiakki palli. Which probably got corrupted to Blackpalli at some point under the British (quite possible and likely so). The third line of thought is that Balckpalli was named after John Blakiston of the Madras Sappers and Miners, who is believed to be the architect of the original layout of the Bangalore Cantonment (also quite possible). I’m no historian, so you guys take your own pickBangalore, unlike many Indian cities still holds on to many of its anglicised names and Russell market in Shivaji Nagar is one of them. This’s a flower and vegetable market in the front and meat and fish market behind. This was the main market for the troops and locals living in and around the Cantonment area. Keeping local sentiments in mind, the beef market was made as a separate building some distance away from the main building. The pork market was shifted awayI guess because most butchers were Muslims (as is the case nowadays too) most of Shivaji Nagar became a Muslim dominated area over time. You get very good Muslim food here and a unique dish called Phaal, which I’ll take up in another postSavera Tea Centre, I believe serves tea 24×7. So you can go there anytime. I’ve somehow ended up going to STC only for my dose of midnight chai. Bangalore doesn’t have too many midnight chai or street food options, except for a few places like Shivaji Nagar. Which has a vibrant late night street food scene and the midnight chai at Savera Tea Centre is quite a must-have after a meal at Shivaji NagarOver so many years, I’ve never seen the taste of chai change at STC and that for me, is quite something. The food and beverage business is a people’s business and not a machine-driven one. It takes quite a bit to get the same output day-after-day and year-after-year. STC has done this flawlessly. It also does a few snacks like samosa, khajoor (a thick fried fermented dough snack that’s popular in this side of the world and is possibly called so because of it’s somewhat chewy texture). But I’ve always come here for the brilliant chai that they serveI hope that STC grows the brand and makes their wonderful midnight chai available elsewhere in Bangalore. So that more people can enjoy itMay the force be with them!!

  March 28, 2017, 1:30 pm

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