Find best street food on your phone

BENGALURU: "Street food is part of almost everyone's growing up memory. Nothing can match the happiness given by our local food addas," Gaurav Ranebennur said.
While there are websites for fine dining restaurants, the unorganized food sector, which has 60% market share according to a 2015 FICCI and Grant Thornton Report on Indian Food and Beverages Industry, has been largely left out, Gaurav said.
Three years ago, Guarav and his sister-in-law Chaitra Bharadwaj, a chartered accountant had an idea. "It took us two years to actually start working on our idea because we were reluctant to move out of our well-paying jobs," he said. But they did and after a year of background work, they launched Gullyfood, a mobile app curating street food in cities and towns.
In the past two months, the app has 1500 downloads and a 4.7 rating on Google Apps. You can browse through 180 food joints in Bengaluru, 130 in Delhiand several food places in Lucknow, Hubli, Panaji and Ahmedabad. It'll cover Pune and Chennai later this year. The food types are divided into hotspot, coldspot and sweetspot (savouries, ice-creams/ juice joints or sweet food joints).
"Gullyfood was conceived when we realized our knowledge of the best street food was limited to neighbourhoods we were familiar with. As soon as we stepped out of our comfort zone, we didn't know much. This was specially true when we went to a new city and we had to depend on locals to find the best street food," he said.
"Other food listing platforms list fine dining restaurants or clubs and a few street food places which are usually buried," he added.
Chaitra said, "We wanted to the focus on this segment. For the ever-growing migrant population which prefers quick service and casual eating joints, we wanted to offer a one-stop-shop repository. The spotlight is on joints previously to a closed group of friends and family," she said.
"We highlight vendors who are not so prominent. We saw they were struggling hard to keep up with bigger and heavily funded chains. Our aim is to help them sustain their businessWhen more people know about them, their business will grow," she said.