Since 1978
One kitchen. Forty-eight years. No shortcuts.
Boondhi has never been a chain. Every order that leaves our door was made at Mavalli Circle, Bengaluru, by people whose names we know.
Our story
It began with a cart outside Lalbagh
In 1978 Venkatesh Rao sold one sweet: boondhi, fried in a single kadai, poured through a jhara he had beaten out of a brass sheet himself. He sold out by noon most days, which he took as a sign that he should not make more.
Nearly five decades later that instinct is still the rule. We cap our boondhi at four kilograms a batch, because past that the pearls flatten and the syrup goes cloudy. It would be simpler and far more profitable to make it in fifty-kilo drums. We have tried. It is not the same sweet.
What has changed is reach. Insulated shipping means a box of khoya pedas made at six in the morning in Bengaluru can be on a table in Delhi within three days, as good as it was in the tray.
1978
One kadai, one sweet
Venkatesh Rao starts selling boondhi from a cart outside Lalbagh West Gate.
1991
The Mavalli Circle kitchen
The family takes over a 400 sq ft shop. The same address we cook in today.
2004
Second generation
Lakshmi Rao takes over the kitchen and adds the mixtures counter.
2016
Cold chain
Insulated shipping lets khoya sweets travel beyond Karnataka for the first time.
2026
boondhi.com
The full counter goes online, made to order and dispatched the day it is cooked.
Questions
Everything people ask us
Come say hello
The kitchen is open from 6am
Walk in and watch the morning batch. We are at Mavalli Circle, opposite the Lalbagh West Gate, seven days a week.
Shop the counter online- 14 Mavalli Circle, Lalbagh Road
Bengaluru 560004, Karnataka - +91 90000 11223
- hello@boondhi.com