CTR (Central Tiffin Room) / Shri Sagar, Malleshwaram
7th Cross Road, Margosa Road, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
CTR, also identified by Karnataka Tourism as Shri Sagar, is a verified Malleshwaram heritage tiffin restaurant within Bengaluru city limits. The current official tourism page gives the main restaurant address as 7th Cross Road, Margosa Road, Malleshwaram, Bengaluru, opposite Malleshwaram Grounds, and states that the establishment dates to the 1920s. That is enough to confirm the exact branch identity used here, even without a standalone operator website. It also ties the entry to a specific neighbourhood rather than to a floating brand reference, which matters in a city where branch precision is essential. Editorially, CTR earns its place because it expresses a different but equally important Bengaluru dining tradition from Basavanagudi’s better-known tiffin rooms. Karnataka Tourism singles out the benne masala dosa as its defining speciality and emphasises the restaurant’s long-retained classic character. The appeal, then, is not menu range or formal dining but neighbourhood ritual: a focused breakfast or tiffin stop in one of the city’s most established residential-commercial districts. Including CTR also improves the geographic balance of the ranking by recognising Malleshwaram as a food destination in its own right. For a Bengaluru restaurant list, it stands as a substantiated, operating and culturally specific institution rather than a nostalgic name without present-day evidence.