I must eat Chaat in Pune ASAP!!!

snonymous

Im not, thats the problem. Too much skimping on the kanda batata nowadays!

kshastry

Hi, I need urgent help. I want to try Bhelpuri, or any of those killer chat in Pune.

Unfortunately I am in Pune for only one day (Thursday of this week), and I need to leave Pune (fly) sharp at 5 pm, which is THE prime time of Bhel sales. (Who made Bhel an evening snack?) Can somebody help me to find a decent Bhel joint which sells Bhel around 1 pm (or throughout the day).

I would mostly be around Kharadi area.

Thanks all!

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new_traveller

Ohhh i am sorry i checked late. hope you had time to eat bhel.

lonelyaztec

I think Chat and hygienic do not go together.

However, that does not stop me from having my Pani Puri every weekend.

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aqua123

This is late, but it may be useful for somebody else sometime later

my experiance : there are very few places in pune for a good chaat. but i liked it at manmeet, on f.c.road.

kalyan bhel near bibwewadi good and hygenic. (they have outlets else where also.)

kshastry

OK.. I managed to have some Bhel in Pune at last.

I was helped by a friendly auto driver who turned his auto into a McLaren zapper, and zig-zagged through Yerwada disproving many laws of Physics, to find a famous joint (I went by his word).

I ate some snacks there, and got some 'parcels' too, which caused the security staff at PNQ to laugh hysterically when it showed up on X-ray screen.

Thanks all for your suggestions. Indeed Bangalore Bhelpuriwalas leave lot to be desired when they compare to Pune/Mumbai.

ashwinnaagar

Kalyan bhel beats all of them!!
Manmeet on fc road is good for north indian chaat items.I have heard that the manmeet outlet at fc road is better than the one at koregaon park.

skk

I'm glad somebody made the distinction between North Indian chaat, and the Maharashtrian ones - even in the Maharashtrian set, there is a difference between the Mumbai style ( with a Kalyan subset as per ashwinnaagar :-) ), Kolhapur style and Sangli style and of course Pune style.

You've got some recommendations for North Indian Style chaat in earlier posts.

For specifically Pune style variants - I'd just eat at the stalls in Sambhaji Park on Jangli Maharaj Rd - but having spend my earliest childhood in Pune I'm biased. They seemed pretty hygienic to me but what do I know.

For true safety, places like Vaishali(mentioned earlier) on Ferguson College Road or Dwarika at the corner of Laxmi Road and Sambhaji Bridge ( nee ( लकडी {Lakdi( Wood )} Bridge ) would be ok.

-skk

ashwinnaagar

The spdp at vaishali is just great..i am not aware of the sangli variant of bhel and the i am talking about kalyan bhel outlet on canal road off prabhat road.

skk

I meant भड्न्ग (Bhadang) when I refered to Sangli Bhel. Thanks for clarifying what kalyan bhel was - I knew about Karjat wadas, about Lonavala chikki and but I hadn't ever heard of.... ( with apologies to Dumbo- Disney Animation) .

-skk

ashwinnaagar

i believe kalyan bhel uses bhadang and not churmure because it takes time to get soggy. They also use many ingredients which i haven't seen anyone else use in bhel like garlic, cloves,cinnamon.

skk

Exactly. Great, now I have a potential alternative. I'll check it out on my next visit. I forsee a time, at some, hopefully wayyyyy in the future, point, when I won't have to visit Sangli for family reasons - being able to get Bhadang directly in Pune will be good.

Thanks.

-skk