Best for Celebrations

The lift opens onto exactly the rooftop you were hoping for — string lights, plants along the parapet, Koramangala glowing underneath. Then you sit down. Our table still had rings from the previous group, one of the two menus was missing pages, and it took three attempts over 20 minutes to place an order. The plants are dusty up close. Almost everything wrong with Sky Garden happens after you're seated, which is the worst place for it to happen.

You come here for the simulator bays, and the restaurant is honest enough not to pretend otherwise. Four screens along the far wall, a scoreboard nobody takes seriously after the second round, and tall tables angled so you can watch your friends miss. Staff run food out between swings without making it awkward. It's a games bar that happens to feed you, and it's much better at the first job.

Copper tanks behind glass, a mezzanine, and enough floor space to seat a birthday party of twenty without moving a single table — Legends is built for volume, and it handles it. We watched a group of thirty get seated and served in under fifteen minutes. What the scale costs you is precision: food comes out fast and warm rather than hot, and plating is clearly not where the kitchen's attention goes.

There is a 40-minute wait at Toit most nights and the staff hand you a buzzer without apologising for it, which tells you everything about how confident this place is. Three floors of exposed brick and old wood, brewing tanks visible from the stairs, and a noise level that makes the table the only conversation you can have. It's the most self-assured room in Indiranagar and it charges accordingly.