Long before the traffic begins its daily argument, the air around the Lalbagh Fort Road in Bengaluru hums with something older, the clink of stainless steel tumblers, the hiss of the filter coffee being juggled and poured from a height, and the soft rustle of newspapers folded. Inside the dining hall of Mavalli Tiffin Rooms, which is famously known as MTR , men in wrinkled shirts and retirees in sandals sit shoulder to shoulder, without hurry, as waiters in uniforms glide past carrying steaming hot idlis, vadas and dosas.

For nearly a century, this quiet rhythm of breakfast has endured in Bengaluru’s Lalbagh, shaping not just the city’s mornings but, in time, a company that would carry those flavours far beyond Karnataka. Nearly a hundred years later, this up-resuming, non-chaotic dinin

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