Fantastic Dosas And Where To Find Them (in Bangalore) 2026 Edition

With over 27 years of experience in consuming and critiquing dosas from across South India, I consider it my personal responsibility to review and rank Bangalore's dosas each year, so that young, impressionable palates are able to differentiate hype from mastery. Before we rank them, let me share three things. First, I am a Kannadiga from Mangalore (and Udupi) by blood but I was raised in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Which means, unlike most of you, I love both sambars: the tangy, tamarind-forward, spicy, sharp Tamil sambar, and also the sweet, coconut-rich, jaggery-laced, Karnataka-style sambar. And I love both dosas, the thick, buttery, gently tangy Udupi-style dosas I grew up around, and the thin, crispy, rice-forward Tamil dosa. They are my two eyes, I have seen the world through both of them, and will never be able to choose one over the other. Second, the experience of eating the dosa matters to me as much as the taste and quality of the dosa, which means I don’t want to feel like…