To shop or to eat while you shop? That’s the real dilemma that one has to go through while walking down the lanes and by lanes of the famous Laxmi road in Pune because it’s just too much to choose from.
Newbie's Guide: How To Buy Clothes, Home Decor & Essentials From Laxmi Road Under INR 500
Ten-Second Takeaway
Clothes & More
For all you shoppers who go seeking about street shopping {which, by the way, is the specialty of Laxmi Road}, hop into famous shops and shopping avenues on Laxmi road. Head to Men’s Avenue which is a store dedicated only and completely to men’s clothing line. Or, you can shop at Pune’s home grown and favourite brand – Jai Hind where clothing starts from INR 250 per piece. And ladies, you can by your share of unique clothing from everyday to party wear at various stores such as Dulhan or various small shops that sell elegant and stylish sarees starting from INR 300!
Accessories Galore
From gold plated heavy imitation jewellery to classy and quirky silver and metallic pieces, laxmi road offers shoppers a wide range of jewellery to street shoppers. If you intend to buy these quirky accessories at throw away prices, go along with someone who’s bargaining game is really, we mean really strong to get additional discount. And guys, it’s not just a street shopping heaven for woman alone, on Laxmi road you can also find tonnes of vendors who sell export surplus of wallets, bags and belts starting from as cheap as INR 100 per piece.
Light & Home Decor
From the Diwali kandils to your regular use tubelights and fair lights. Various hawkers and shops on Laxmi road offer their patrons with a choice of pretty lights starting from INR 50 only. Laxmi road, since a very long time has been an important part of home decor shopping for a number of Puneri houses. And why not? When you can find beautiful vases of clay, ceramic or even wood or just some pretty and rare antiques for a bargaining price, you make your way into people’s houses! It’s not just about vases and pottery at Laxmi road. You have to visit sajawat for pretty wallpapers, curtains, bedsheets and pillow covers for a relatively cheaper prices.
Eat At Pune's Oldest Ice Cream Parlour
When in Pune, do what the Punekars do. So, after you’re done shopping at Laxmi road, you must and have to visit Ganu Shinde’s ice-cream parlour which is a 165 year old ice-cream shop that serves delicious ice-creams such as mango {their signature}, sitaphal, jambhul and various other classics for INR 40 only for a scoop.
#LBBTip
Beware of pick pocketers! Also bring someone who knows how to bargain. If you do that, you’ll hit jackpots on this legendary shopping street.