Another day another lunch time finds us in Jaipur looking for a snack. Today’s stop was to be The Royal Treat on Amer Road, Another multicuisine restaurant, this one describes it’s own menu as “Fairly Priced, Decently Sized and Extremely Delicious”. That was quite an interesting if a somewhat bold statement and they went on further…
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Pandit Gajak Street Snacks in Jaipur
You can have all the fancy meals that you like but sometimes the simple pleasures of finding a little unexpected sweet treat on the street will be better than almost all of them. That was what happened as we meandered our way along the streets of Jaipur, fending off the advances of the shopkeepers who all wanted us…
Kuber Resort on the Jaipur-Ajmer Highway – Masala Dosa for all!
The Kuber Resort located on the Jaipur-Ajmer Highway (HN-8) describes itself as ‘A Heritage Haveli’ and as ‘one of the best resort on HN-8’. They say on their website that “Our Menu Offerings Cater to both global and Indian taste preference. Our endeavour in staying relevant has helped us to offer a good variety of…
Lunch by the Lake at the Jhumar Lakeview Resturant in Udaipur
The Jhumar Lakeview Restaurant sits alongside Lake Udaipur in Udaipur, so basically it is what is says on the sign “a restaurant with a lakeside view.” We stopped off here in the middle of a sight seeing tour around the city. It is another one of those places that the local tour guides have on their…
Pushkar Inn – Time for a Thali and some Indian breads
We arrived late in Pushkar and found a little restaurant just along from the hotel that looked to be popular and where we could see them cooking the food in the open kitchen. It was a cool evening and they had braziers inside to keep you warm while you dined. The great big bins of…
Roadside Stop in Ranthambore – Time for Chai and a little bit of a breadmaking lesson
Another day, another long drive, and another roadside stop. Today we are travelling from Ranthambore National Park (where the Tigers live) to Pushkar another couple of hundred miles and another 5-6hrs on the bus. I am not exactly sure where this stop was but it was quite a typical kind of place and while we…
Food on the Roadside in Rajastan- Mangalm Family Restaurant
Today we were driving from Agra to Ranthambore, we had spent a few hours visiting Agra Fort so we were going to be eating lunch somewhere on the road. Our driver decided to stop for his lunch at one of the many roadside restaurants, it looked OK, so we decided to eat here too. The Mangalm Family…
Lunch in Agra before we visit the Taj Mahal – A Pinch of Spice
Pinch of Spice was the chosen stop for lunch by our guide when we went to Agra. It had been a long day and a long drive from Delhi and to be honest food was the last thing on our minds. Our thoughts were on the upcoming visit to the Taj Mahal and where…
Chicken Inn – Pandara Road Market, New Delhi
After a mornings sightseeing around New Delhi we found ourselves at The Chicken Inn at Pandara Road Market in New Delhi. It is located in a small shopping square surrounded with other similar restaurants, we walked in, or were we guided in? with instruction to the owners that we needed to be in and out within 20 minutes….
Street Vendors we met while sightseeing in Delhi
Outside the Lotus Temple in South Delhi a bunch of street vendors had set up camp by the main viewing point all ready to grab the trade from the tourists stopping by to get a photograph. Perhaps it was a little wrong that I was more interested in looking at the food and drink on…