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Pure-Veg Dosa Feast at Sri Periyava Dosa Bhavan
Newton's 4.7-rated pure-veg temple: a dosa longer than the table, six little steel bowls, and zero pressure to be elegant about it.
Newton, Chana Plaza on 120 St
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Newton's 4.7-rated pure-veg temple: a dosa longer than the table, six little steel bowls, and zero pressure to be elegant about it.
Newton, Chana Plaza on 120 St
More infoTucked into a Newton plaza and rated 4.7 by thousands, Sri Periyava Dosa Bhavan runs a focused pure-vegetarian kitchen with quiet confidence. The dosa arrives shatteringly crisp and, depending what you order, impractically long, flanked by a parade of little steel bowls: sambar, coconut chutney, and that fiery red one everyone reaches for first. Order a ghee-soaked masala dosa for two and abandon all hope of tidiness.
This is a small, unfussy room that lives and dies by the dosa, so order the ghee-roast or Mysore masala dosa to split, it arrives longer than the table and shatters when you tear it. Work through the little steel bowls together (sambar, coconut chutney, and the fiery red one are the holy trinity), don't miss the medu vada dunked in sambar, and chase it all with a frothy filter coffee. It's pure veg, properly spiced, and cheap enough to over-order; budget around an hour and come hungry, nobody leaves Sri Periyava tidy.
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