Restaurants in Gujarat
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Havmor
Ahmedabad is famous for its ice cream and the Havmor ice-cream bar, behind Navrangpura bus stop, has tons of flavours.
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Toran Dining Hall
Gung-ho staff knock up delicious, never-ending Gujarati thalis to a mostly middle-class crowd.
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Agashiye
This is Ahmedabad’s best dining experience. On the rooftop of one of the city’s finest mansions, the lovely tiled terrace is an oasis of calm and space, candle-lit at night and a world away from the congested streets. The all-veg menu, which changes daily, begins with a rose-and-lemon-flavoured welcoming drink and is a cultural journey around the traditional thali – a multitude of ravishingly tasty vegetable dishes – and finishes with hand-churned ice cream.
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Rasoi
This secluded bungalow and garden restaurant – look behind the police post and fig tree beside the Galaxy Cinema – is run by the folks at Tulsi Restaurant. Here you’ll find great unlimited Gujarati thalis, as well as Punjabi and Chinese veg fare.
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Nishat
This place gets packed in the evenings with Muslim men devouring hearty veg and, more often, non-veg tandoori dishes.
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Tulsi Restaurant
Low-lit with plants and understated decor, this cosy place with Punjabi and Chinese veg dishes is rightly popular.
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Mandap
One the best thalis in town, served in a splendidly decorated room with a desert-tent interior.
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Green House
The Green House is the casual front restaurant at the House of MG. Choose the fan-blasted outdoor courtyard or the AC room with a big-screen TV. The selection of Gujarati dishes is superb. Do try the house special sharbat; and the delicate and delicious panki, a thin crepe cooked between banana leaves; or the divine malpura, a sweet, deep-fried pancake in saffron syrup, topped with rose petals. And don’t leave without trying the hand-churned ice cream.
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Vishalla
On the southern edge of town, opposite Vasana Tol Naka, Vishalla is a magical eating experience evoking a traditional Gujarati village. You eat a veg thali seated on the floor in rustic wooden huts, and the complex includes craft stalls and a fascinating Utensil Museum. Dinner is accompanied by puppet or magic shows and traditional music. Bus 150 or 31 will take you nearby; an autorickshaw costs about Rs. 90 return.
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Nana’s Restaurant
A very polished restaurant with an army of helpful staff, cocktails, icy cold beer and delicious North Indian food. The selection of veg and non-veg curries is impressive – from Afghani to Vindaloo, and there’s Chinese, and of course the local seafood: pomfret, dara, prawns and surmai. A great feature is the family room where families and females can dine in a no-stare zone.
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Shri Ram Vijay
- Diu, India
- Restaurants › Other
Forget the alcohol – Diu earns its place on the map for this small, squeaky-clean, old-fashioned ice cream parlour, with delicious handmade ice cream and milkshakes. Going since 1933, this family enterprise started out with soft drinks, and they still make their own brands (Dew and Leo) in Fudam – try the exceptional Dew cream soda and then try all the ice creams!
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O’Coqueiro Music Garden Restaurant
- Diu, India
- Restaurants › Other
Here, a dedicated owner has developed a soul-infused garden restaurant celebrating freshness and quality. The small menu offers simple renditions of veg with pasta and excellent seafood. The chef has learnt a handful of Portuguese dishes from a local Diu matriarch. There’s also good coffee and cold beer. It is near the Diu Museum
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TC’s
This trendy little cafe near Gujarat College offers pita and hummus, Chinese noodles and Indian dishes in a bright cafe setting, with bubbling hookahs, big TV screens and bemused waiters. The sweet hookah smoke fills the chilled room and the Red Bull mocktails are about as wild as things get.
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Moti Mahal
Ahmedabad’s oldest restaurant boasts a long Indian, Chinese, veg and non-veg menu. You can eat simple fare downstairs in an open-fronted restaurant or upstairs in the AC shiny booths. The mezzanine has private booths for tiny couples with zenana screens for private people-watching.
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Food Inn
A clean, bright and bustling curry house where carnivores can tuck into numerous chicken, mutton and fish dishes, including biryani, sizzlers and Chinese. There are plenty of snacks and deserts on the menu too, which is dominated by spicy Punjabi curries and lip-smackin’ tandoori.
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Apana Foodland
- Diu, India
- Restaurants › Other
This outdoor, waterfront restaurant does everything: breakfasts, South Indian, Gujarati, Punjabi and Chinese. The fish dishes, including shark tikka, kingfish/prawns with rice, chips and salad can be pre-ordered so you don’t miss out. The Gujarati fruit salad is delicious.
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Al Karimi
This chilled ice cream parlour is a panel of glass away from the chaos and dirt outside. Guilt trips aside, it also doubles as a non-veg restaurant, though the house speciality described as ‘seafood and chicken chunks’ had us sticking with the very karimi ice cream.
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Night Heron Restaurant
- Diu, India
- Restaurants › Other
This water-edge open-air restaurant, with upstairs tables, is not bad for an evening meal, ice cream or a beer. During the day it gets a bit hot, though. South Indian breakfasts are a feature while lunch and dinner feature tandoori, Punjabi and Chinese dishes.
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Adingo
This flashy red-tiled, red-upholstered restaurant does tremendous lunch-time Gujarati thalis for the professional set. The dinner menu features the usual veg multi-cuisine plus local Kathiyavadi dishes. It i s located opposite Shastri Maidan near Limda Chowk.
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Swati Restaurant
We aren’t sure if it is themed on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or Lost in Space, but this individual little restaurant with private booths (with port holes) delivers delicious Punjabi, South Indian and Chinese veg dishes plus veg pizzas.
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RGB Restaurant
This cool and cosy restaurant on the hotel’s 1st floor offers generous serves of veg Jain, North Indian and Chinese. There are partitions for privacy and platoons of eager staff. And that bar at the end? Don’t get excited – mocktails only.
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Hotel ZK
A slinky AC, non-veg restaurant, with tinted windows, low lighting and impeccable service. The Chicken Afghani curry is recommended but apparently the most popular dish with the locals is the interesting sounding Chicken Pesto Chinese.
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Daman Delite
This small place with stars on the ceiling and white tablecloths is popular with groups of men on their Daman break and the occasional family. The food is veg and non-veg with some inspired seafood dishes to accompany the chilled beer.
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Garden Restaurant
Something different: this restaurant has a lovely garden setting near Jyoti Nursery and beneath Girnar Hill, and reasonable Jain, Punjabi and South Indian food – it’s popular with families and is worth the short rickshaw ride.
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Rajputana
Specialising in Punjabi and Chinese vegetarian, with a few pizzas thrown in, this intimate restaurant is partitioned by feature walls of hanging chains and bells, and window tables have a view over the busy Sadar Patel Chowk.
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