Chikkapete is a neighborhood in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.

It is one of the city's oldest areas and is famous for its Wholesale & Retail Cloths Shops.

It is near the Electric Market area in Bangalore and is a part of the Bangalore South Lok Sabha constituency.

[2] It is also said that Shivaji had spent early years of his childhood in Bengaluru with his father Shahaji Raje Bhosale.

Today the locality is home to the second largest Marwadi community in South india after Sowcarpet in Chennai.