Avarebele Mela

In Bangalore every year around January, closer to Sankranti (pongal) there is this event that happens in the Vishweshwara Puram, Sajjan Rao circle area which is also called the "Eat Street" of  the city. It is called "Avarebele Mela"- where they prepare different variety of dishes from Avarebele. Like, sambar, vada, dosa, upma, paddu, pulav, biryani, bonda, even desserts like, Jamoon, jalebi, holige (puranpoli) etc.. You name a dish and it is there but only vegetarian!
There is a huge rush of the Bangalore crowd to this place to taste these miuthwatering dishes.
My colleagues in office comprise of a team of non-bangaloreans and they have been wanting to go to this place during this time for over a year now. :-)
So, finally this Friday we decided to go there and I was their guide and translator for the evening. We got stuck with work and left only at 7.15pm. The Friday traffic wasn't that bad and we did the 6.4kms in about 30mns. The place wasn't really crowded for a Friday evening. Some of them had reached early and had ordered Twisters. They said they were having it for the 1st time. :-) really??
Then I took them to the chat store where my favourite is Pav Bhaji. They ate Pav bhaji, Dahi puri, Alu tiki and kachori masala. From there we went to eat Avarebele vada and bonda. This guy was struggling to even pronounce "avarekayi" so, I went and bought it finally ending his struggle. After this, they had goli soda to digest whatever they had eaten till then ;-) Then they had dosa with avarekayi curry, avarekayi dosa, Jamoon, holige. I was asking them for the next dish they wanted but they just threw up their hands and said they had enough. We had a good binge and went our separate ways....