For those of you who like a filling meal and don't want to be confused by an extensive menu, bento boxes are the best. The convenience of a bento box is that you get a rice, soup, salad, one or two sides like sushi or grilled pork and it's a meal that captures the best of what the restaurant has to offer. It’s a great choice for people who are solo diners or need a quick working meal. Below, we've rounded up our favourite restaurants in the city that serve bento box meals.
Meal In A Box: Our Favourite Places To Get Bento Boxes In The City
Azukii
The bento boxes at Azukii are a staple on the nights when we just want to have a filling meal and we are watching an episode of Spy x Family at the restaurant on our iPad. The Tonkatsu Bento and the Karage Bento are our favourites with the former featuring juicy pork cutlets and the other with crunchy chicken bites. The Pork Chashu bento is also a favourite because the chashu is so addictive.
Price: INR 650 upwards
Bento Bento
The Indiranagar restaurant exclusively serves bento boxes as their mains and they do vegan, vegetarian, seafood, pork, and chicken bento boxes. You can pick and choose how you want to do your bento box with options like sliced pork with ginger rice, Korean beef short ribs, Yam katsu, and shiitake & king oyster mushroom stir fry.
Price: INR 550 upwards
The Fatty Bao
The Lavelle Road does bento takeaways with chicken, seafood, pork, and vegetarian options and you can customise your bento box too. Each of the bento boxes comes with a salad, bao, curry, rice or noodles, and a dessert option. Pick options such as green mango papaya salad, Teriyaki chicken baos, Thai red curry, Malaysian chicken Kapitan curry and desserts like Japanese cheesecake.
Price: INR 450 upwards
Shiro
Shiro's bento boxes feature options across Asia – from Japanese to Chinese. They do sushi, sashimi, makimono, noodles, and rice bento boxes with options such as Veg Makimono Bento, Sushi, Sashimi & Makimono Bento, and Seafood Donburi Bento. All bento's come with chef's salad and dim sum, and is available for takeaways for lunch only.
Price: INR 445 upwards
