What this site is
Hangouts (hangouts.in.net) is a local discovery app and guide for Bengaluru. It exists to answer a small, specific question well: where should I go this evening, and how do I get there? The app filters more than a thousand cafés, restaurants, breweries, parks, museums, gaming zones, shopping streets, viewpoints and day-trip spots by mood, food, budget and distance, shows them on a map, and links out to directions. It also carries current film listings for the city and an offline Namma Metro map with route and platform guidance.
Alongside the app we publish written guides — a neighbourhood guide, a food guide and a treks-and-day-trips guide — because the context that decides a good evening is rarely a map pin. Those pages are ordinary articles: no login, no app install and no paywall.
How places get into the list
A place is added after being checked against its current map listing and at least one independent source, and it must actually exist at the address attached to it. The list is deliberately broad: a legendary 60-year-old tiffin room and a two-year-old brewery belong in the same guide if both are worth someone's evening. Each entry carries the category it best fits, the area it is in, and a map location. Photos are used only where we can serve them properly, and a place without a usable photo is still listed.
We do not invent ratings, prices or opening hours. Where a detail changes often — a menu price, a gate time at a hill, a last metro train — the written guides tell you to confirm it rather than printing a number that will be stale by the time you read it.
How it stays current
Places close, move and change hands constantly in this city. The list is reviewed continuously: entries are corrected when a venue closes or shifts, new places are added as they open, and the metro map and film listings are refreshed as the city changes them. The guides are revised when something material changes, and the "Updated" date at the top of each page reflects that, not a cosmetic edit.
If you find an entry that is wrong, the fastest fix is to tell us. Use the contact page and include the place name and what is incorrect. Corrections take priority over everything else in the inbox.
Editorial independence and how the site is funded
No one can pay to be listed, to be ranked higher, or to be written about. Recommendations are based on the place itself, not on a commercial relationship, and any future sponsored content would be labelled clearly as such. The site is funded by advertising served on the written guides, and by an optional paid tier in the app. Ads never decide what appears in a guide, and advertising is not served inside the app's own screens.
Privacy, in one paragraph
You can read every guide here without an account. An account is only needed for the app's saved and personalised features, and it asks for an email and a phone number so that a paid plan can be attached to you. Payments are handled by the payment gateway; card and UPI credentials never reach our servers. We do not sell personal data. The full detail is in the Policies & Terms page.
Who runs it
Hangouts is a small independent project based in Bengaluru, run by a local editor and developer rather than a large media company. That is why the place list is opinionated, why corrections are handled personally, and why there is a real email address below rather than a ticket system.
Write to [email protected], or follow @hangouts_in_net.
Open the Hangouts app or start with the Bengaluru guides.