Best for Friends

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.

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.

The display counter at the front is doing most of the work here — cheesecakes, éclairs, a red velvet under glass that half the room orders. Behind it the café is pleasant enough: bentwood chairs, marble-look tables, a laptop at every second one. Where it thins out is the kitchen. The bakery is clearly the business; the savoury menu reads like something added later, and our order came out lukewarm without an apology.