Ravi Benne Dose Hotel — Restaurant in Karnataka

In Davanagere, you will find restaurants and stalls that serve benne dosa in every nook & corner. And each of these restaurants claim that they are the benne dosa pioneers and that only they serve the ‘original’ benne dosa! But that distinction belongs to one Mahadevappa Benne Dosa Hotel which first started way back in the year 1928 😲

It is still in operation today the 3rd generation is running it. Mr Ravi, son of Mr Mahadevappa (who learnt the recipe First from his mother Chennamma) now runs this Hotel hence its called by his name now. Benne Masala dosas were actually cooked in Raagi (finger millet) Flour in the beginning! A decade later in 1938 the present avatar of Rice Flour cooked Benne Masale Dose came into being and still in existence to this day! Till the 1970s a single khali (plain) dosa was getting retailed at 10 a benne (butter) dosa was getting retailed at 40 paise each 😃

The place is little crammed & no frills. You can feel the aroma of dosas getting prepared in your nostrils which is hypnotic and makes your latent hunger within, come to the fore! They have many variations of dosas which you can hog on. Prices are still very competitive when you compare them to metro & tier 1 City pricing! Over all a very good and paisa vasool experience indeed 😎

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If you are in Davengere you must try this place. Davengere is known for its Benne Dosa which means Dosa made with lot of butter.

Davengere has got many small eatery places which serves Benne dosa but, this place is exceptional among all of it. We never miss an opportunity to stop by while we are on Pune - Bangalore highway road. Though this outlet is inside the city we do make an effort to visit this place. Challenge we mostly face is they are open only for limited hours. It’s properly mapped over google maps.

This place is pretty small, but they have got good quality food and the place is quite cleanly maintained.

The preparation of dosa is very unique here, they have those olden days stove, which uses coconut shell and wooden logs to heat up the stove.

They just got two dosas one is benne and the other one is khali which is plain dosa. I would recommend benne dosa.

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Any given day, I would rate this place above the Guru Kottureshwara hotel and Old Sagar hotel. I like the other two places as well.

They use white butter and the dosaes taste a little better than the other two famous places for the crepes in the town. They have been here for decades and if I am not wrong, they belong to the very clan that pioneered the benne dosae culture, though there are 2-3 strong contenders from the same claim.

These guys serve red and white chutney on alternate days. I believe that the 20rs extra you shell out for their dosaes is worth it for the white butter and better chutney.

The place is too small and at times, you might have to wait to get a seat or eat standing. But who complains? The taste and the quality of the food they serve makes up for the lack...