Cafe Goodluck

Situated at the Bhandarkar road & F.C road junction is the old Irani Cafe joint of "Cafe Goodluck". It's been there for years and years (since 1935) and the chowk is named after this cafe.

Many people call it a "Bachelors adda". It typifies the Irani cafe culture which spread across Mumbai, Pune in the late sixties.

Goodluck prices are very very reasonable and hence it is extremely popular among the college going crowd.

Here you can sit down and have a superb "Bun muska" or a luscious "Bun Omelette" with chai ofcourse. The bun is so fresh. You can smell the baked yeasty aroma of the bun and the muska (butter) is spread generously inside.

You can order some nice grilled sandwiches (cheese tomato grilled...sounds so very English) or you can dig into the many non vegeterian specialities (kheema pav, mutton curries, egg curries, chicken dishes etc)

I am Cafe Good luck's loyal customer. I happen to get something or eat something at 'Goodluck' virtually once every week. Although I have turned vegeterian, I eat eggs.

So 'Goodluck' continues to be on my list of places that I make it a point to visit.

You can have excellent lunch, breakfast, afternoon snack, or dinner. It's open whole day and it is packed. The waiters are warm, friendly and efficient

Goodluck in my opinion serves the best Jeera rice in town. The rice is perfectly cooked and dry, they spread friend onion on top of the rice with coriander. Have it with their simple dal fry

Sure it's not an upscale restaurant and rarely will you find families sitting there but it's a fantastic place to sit down and experience the real Pune. Young people move in & out. You can find the Irani owners sitting there. You will hardly hear marathi being spoken because its so popular among especially people staying in hostels...

Vegeterians do find it hard to sit in 'Goodluck' because most people order the famous non vegeterian dishes and to see meaty & greasy food moved around can be a difficult sight.

Many families opt to take parcels because they just find "Cafe Goodluck" food delicious but find it difficult to seat there (especially Maharashtrians:))

The other 2 nice Irani cafes in the Deccan area "Cafe Sunrise" and 'Lucky' have dissappeared and I sincerely wish "Cafe Good luck" stays there just like it has for many many years

Many loyal customers swear by the tastes of non veg food in 'Goodluck'. I did that too when I was eating non-veg. But as often, there are so many good vegeterian dishes that one can also enjoy... (or you can say 'eggaterian' dishes around)

To enter the Cafe and smell the fresh buns is a feeling that cannot be described.

To bite into a 2 egg omellete placed between the bun folds and then dig into the soft smooth bun cannot be described...It can only be experienced.

You don't need to be dressed well to go to Goodluck. You just gotta to be there, being yourself...

Pune is changing constantly and the new crowd who visits 'Goodluck' are young ladies from college. They come in groups and go away in Groups

It's a delightful place to experience the young cosmpolitan city