Tibbs Frankie

A Bombay Frankie stall chain. You get them all over Bombay at Churchgate Station, near Sena Bhavan Dadar (which is the best one), Linking Road Bandra, etc.

While the Dadar one is actually very good (good enough to go for by itself) and the only one I would recommend. Yet somehow all stalls manage to have that similar unique flavour.

I spotted one on Brigade Road in Bangalore recently and sure as heck couldn't avoid eating there although I didn't have much expectation from it.

I was pleasantly surprised when I bit into it. That same soft spongy flavour although the "roti" is crispy on the outside and the wet (as in not dry;-) chicken with gravy which keeps dripping down into the plastic thing they give you to hold the frankie in. That's probably the difference between these and the dry Kathi Rolls. This feels more like actual food the wet gravy and soft roti which just taste better as you eat them compared to a Kathi Roll which feels dry and requires to be forcibly gulped down.

This is probably personal preference. That's why I like the Chicken Bhuna Roll at Bade Miya compared to the dry Seekh or Boti Rolls. But then everyone who I introduced the Chicken Bhuna Roll to has been a instant convert ;-)

Delicous! The taste was so similar to the Bombay ones that I was instantly reminded of Bombay! Anyone who has eaten at the better Tibbs Frankie stalls in Bombay will know what I mean.

The only con -- there were two bones in the chicken. Ugh.