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MG Road Bangalore


About MG Road Bangalore

Mahatma Gandhi Road, also known as MG Road Bangalore, runs east from Trinity...Read More

Best Shops In MG Road Bangalore

About MG Road Bangalore

Mahatma Gandhi Road, also known as MG Road Bangalore, runs east from Trinity Circle at one end to Anil Kumble circle at the other. Known as South Parade in the pre-independence era, it was renamed as Mahatma Gandhi Road on 26th February 1948.

CBD in Bangalore

No trip to Bengaluru (Bangalore) is complete without visiting this popular   Bangalore market.This long stretch of road is usually busy throughout the day. Looking for a lunch spot at CBD, Bangalore? Well, the place offers you a plenty of options to choose from. You may head to Nagarjuna & Bhimas, Tao Terraces, KC Das, Ebony and Chutney Chang, among others.

It is known for its high-end Bangalore shopping, happening restaurants, malls and a charming crowd. There are shops selling beautiful Kanjivarams, Banarsis and Pochampalli saris.

Best Shops in mg road Bangalore

Some of the popular shops  are Vijaylakshmi Silk and Sarees, Priya Simran, and Prasiddhi Silks. Interested in handicrafts? Cauvery Handicrafts and Cottage Industries do a ton of sandalwood and rosewood handicrafts, brass and bronze figurines, carpets, jewellery and clothes as well. These are certainly among the best shops for handicrafts in Bangalore.

Kashmiri Carpet Shops

There are at least 3 to 4 shops here where one can buy Kashmiri Carpets. Kashmir Cottage Emporium is one of them .There are also many high-end restaurants as well. These include Vivanta by Taj, On the Edge, Canopy, and The Oberoi. Those looking for pubs can also find many clubs and discos closeby. Portland Stakehouse cafe, Ebony, Bilmey, Yautcha, Tandoor, Lakeview Milkbar Vasudev Adiga and 13th floor are some of the popular restaurants here.

Brigade Road nearby also has some good Bangalore shops including Vera Moda, Lee, Van Heussen and Louis Phillip. The street stalls are piled high with unbranded shoes, clothes and knick-knacks.

Experience another highly visible Bangalore street shopping scene here.

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1 MG Road Mall

All lanes , Bylanes in Commercial Street are flooded with Everything from Jeans to Jewelry . Bargain and Enjoy the Fun

Days Closed :- All days open.

Timing :- 11 am -8 pm

Bus/Metro :- MG Road bus stop

Other Markets

Indiranagar Bangalore

  • Indira Nagar started off as a sleepy, high-end residential area with wide avenues – more like an army cantonment area. But over the last two decades, it has blossomed into one of the trendiest shopping areas of Bangalore with its 100 Feet Road & CMH Road becoming a Bengaluru(Bangalore) shopping market ,frequented by the young and trendy. Indira Nagar is also known as HAL area – comprises Hoyashala Nagar, Domlur, New Thippasandra. From a pensioner’s paradise, the IT industry has made it a busy commercial & shopping hub. Wrangler, Levis, Allen Solley, Reid & Taylor, Park Avenue, Raymonds, Peter England, Lee, Wills Lifestyle, Tommy Hilfiger, Planet Fashion,ZARA, Samsara ,Soma and Chemistry have an outlet in the 100ft road. There are superstores like Staples, More, Croma, Viveks, Sony, Reliance Trends & Reliance Digital, Titan, Girias, Ezone, Unilet and VGP here. Clarks Shoes, Adidas, Nike, Reebok, Metro, Hush Puppies, Woodlands, Reliance Footprints and Bata, luxury watch stores like Designer wear are also there. CMH Road has Cool Club for chic casual wear for men, women and kids, Blush for apparels & accessories, Ants for exotic stuff from north east, Chilli Billi – an innovative boutique for casual wear and Tasya for luxurious bridal wear and high-end silk sarees & dresses . And One G, Wild Jasmine and Bandhej are some other popular outlets not to be missed. Some of the well known restaurants include Smoke house deli, Toit, Monkey Bar, Chilis, Kebab room, Black Rabbit, Glen Bake House, Loft 38, Barbeque Nation, Vapor pub and brewery, Forbidden fruit and MTR 1924 The Indiranagar shopping has redefined the Bengaluru (Bangalore) shopping experience.
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Chickpet

  • Bangalore is a shoppers’ paradise – especially for Mysore crepe silks sarees and printed pure silk sarees. Chickpet is the embodiment of indigenous Bangalore shopping. Around the electronic city, many malls may come and become popular amidst the young and upwardly mobile population. But Bangalore natives think of Chickpet when they think of Bangalore shopping. Ask any old timer about shopping in Bangalore , they will recommend the Chickpet Shopping Market as the best area to get everything at a reasonable rate. Chickpet has been a very popular Bangalore Shopping Market with a historical past. Chickpet’s history is interwoven into Bangalore’s history. Chickpet was established in the 16th century by the King Kempe Gowda, at the cross road of four important trade routes when he established the city of Bangalore. ‘Pete’ generally means market center in Kannada language. It was established as the main Bangaluru (Bangalore ) Shopping Market Chickpet (Chikkapeta) – market for small Bangalore shops (jewelry, textiles and saris), Dodda Pete (Avenue Road) – for bigger traders & bigger Bangalore shops – stationary, clothes, vessels and books, Tharagupete – for grains, groceries, Nagarthpete – including Raja Market – for Gold, silver and gem jewelry shops (traditional and modern – genuine as well imitation jewelry), Ganigarapete – for oil traders,Tigalarapete – flower/vegetable market of gardeners and farmers, Cubbonpete – for textiles shops, silk sari shops , dyes, chemicals etc, Sultanpete – paper/stationery, books, Balepete – for Bangle shops . Today , Chickpet (Chikkapete) shopping place in Bangalore has several shops selling everything from bridal wear sarees to day-to-day wear dresses – from genuine silk to handloom, cotton and synthetics. There are many narrow roads – some not eve 3-4 feet wide – on both sides of Chickpet Road and Avenue Road that are filled with shops. It is a crowded market. Some famous silk sari shops are Kaiser-I-Hind Depot – a sari supplier to royal houses for over 7 decades, Kuberan Silks, Sudarshan Silks & Sudarshan Jewelry, Kala Mandir Saris, Byrappa & Sons, SM Silks, Dhondusa silks etc There are touts standing outside the shops actively looking for customers. Nearby Chickpet area, there is a big municipal market called Krishna Rajendra Market – selling fruits, vegetables and flowers and other things too. There are a number of Hindu temples, Jain temples, and mosques in the area. Nearby BVK Iyengar Road is buzzing market for all kinds of electrical goods. Chickpet is to Bangalore what Chandni Chowk is to Delhi. Today the entire area is a bustling shopping market but sadly lacks adequate parking space.
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