Restaurants in Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh
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Raja’s Café
The central location is great, as is the restaurant design, with a delightful wrought-iron spiral staircase linking a shaded courtyard with a temple-view terrace. But it’s the food that steals the show. The Indian dishes are superb – the paneer kofta (unfermented cheese and vegetable balls) and chicken kababi (barbecued chicken pieces marinated in yoghurt), in particular – and not too expensive, and there’s good-quality Italian and Chinese too.
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Bella Italia
A cheaper version of Mediterraneo, this rooftop restaurant overlooks Gole Market and sits beside a couple of huge trees which every day from around 6pm stage remarkable parrot-squawking contests.
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Blue Sky Restaurant
A rickety wooden platform, three storeys up, leads out to the most unusual place to eat in the whole of Khajuraho – a one-table tree house with an unrivalled view of the western temples. The view from the ordinary, terraced balcony is good too, while the menu is the usual Indian and Chinese, plus Western breakfasts. The grumpy service is perhaps understandable. Would you like to serve food to customers in a tree?
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Indian Coffee House
It’s hard not to love Indian Coffee House, and Gwalior’s branch (handily located between train and bus stations) is no exception. It does all the usual breakfast favourites – real coffee, dosa (large savoury crepes), scrambled eggs – but also has a proper main-course menu, including a killer thali (all-you-can-eat meal; Rs. 70), in its separate first-floor area.
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New Inn
Clean and colourful split-level restaurant with a well-priced menu served by staff in waistcoats and bow ties. There are good breakfast choices, including filter coffee (Rs. 10), but it’s the delicious main courses that hit the spot. If you like a bit of spice, don’t leave this place without trying the mattar paneer (unfermented cheese and pea curry).
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Manohar
There’s only chhole (masala chickpeas, served with puri, a flat savoury dough that puffs up when deep fried) to go with your tea or coffee in the morning, but mains – pizza, Chinese, South Indian – are served from mid-day onward. Has an impressive range of Indian confectionary at a side counter.
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Indian Coffee House
Not as salubrious as the New Market branch, but nonetheless a top spot for a breakfast of filter coffee and scrambled eggs. The usual South Indian favourites – dosa, idli and vada (doughnut-shaped deep-fried lentil savoury) – are all here too, as are the waiters with the white fan-tailed hats.
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Swad Restaurant
Rooms in this mid-range hotel may be overpriced, but the restaurant is top-notch, offering a dizzying range of Indian, Chinese and Continental dishes in contemporary surroundings. Save some space for the lip-smacking gulab jamuns (deep-fried balls of dough soaked in rose-flavoured syrup).
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Relax Point
A village shop, gathering point and restaurant rolled into one; the menu is very limited, and in the evening it’s thali only (Rs. 50, unlimited refills), but staff is friendly and the snacks they sell – nuts, dried fruit, chocolate, samosas – are ideal for bike rides into the countryside.
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Kwality Restaurant
This popular restaurant serves up subtle curries, from a plethora of paneer (unfermented cheese) dishes to chicken and lamb curries. Many dishes take up to 30 minutes to prepare - the textured chicken bhurta (curry with roasted eggplant) is among the quicker options.
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Treasure Island Shopping Mall
Sprinkled among five floors of designer labels is a host of food joints ranging from South Indian specialists to American diners. There are coffee shops, a Baskin-Robbins ice-cream parlour and even a sports bar where, in between courses, you can play pool or go ten-pin bowling.
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Highway Treat Bhimbetka
Highway Treat Bhimbetka, with a pleasant restaurant-cafe (mains Rs. 60 to Rs100), a children’s playground and five comfortable AC rooms, is by the Bhimbetka turning, 3km from the rock shelters. The ticket office is halfway up the road to the rocks from here.
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Indian Coffee House
Drink coffee with Indore’s judiciary at this branch set inside the grounds of the commissioner’s office and near the district court. As always, a top spot for breakfast, with dosa and particularly good idli sharing the menu with eggs and toast.
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Supreet Restaurant
Dhal, dosa, paneer, paratha (flaky unleavened bread) and tandoor flat-breads, as well as three types of thali (from Rs. 35) are all on offer at this cheap and cheerful place. It also does half portions, handy for lunch-time snacks.
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Mediterraneo
Food served on a lovely terrace overlooking the street includes chicken, salads and organic whole-wheat pasta, but it’s all about the pizza here, baked in the wood-fired oven. There’s also beer (Rs. 130) and Maharastran wine (bottle Rs. 750).
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Bapu Ki Kutia
Papa’s Shack has been serving up delicious Indian veg dishes since the ’60s and is so popular you may have to share a table. There’s an English menu, but no English sign. Look for the picture of a beach hut and palm tree above the door.
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Blue Fox
With its cool blue décor, this restaurant's big-city ambience is only let down by the circumspect staff. There's an extensive breakfast menu and a basement bar serving cocktails such as the 'Indian-American' Royal Stag whisky sour.
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Zayka
This trendy, cafe-style restaurant with glass table-tops and brightly painted walls pulls in young local punters with its foreign menu – noodles, burgers, pizza – but the Indian veg dishes are still very good. Try the stuffed capsicum.
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Paradise Restaurant
Nothing flash about this place with plastic chairs, but the food’s good – the mulai kofta (mashed potato balls with onion, spices and curry sauce) particularly so – and it serves booze (beer Rs. 130, cocktails from Rs. 95).
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Celebration
This clean and modern bakery next to Hotel Shreemaya sells pastries, sandwiches, cookies and cakes, as well as a handful of mains, including pizza. Good choice for breakfast if you can’t be bothered going to Indian Coffee House.
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Popular with families, courting couples and 20-somethings, this child-friendly veg restaurant with funky decor serves up good-quality Indian and Chinese cuisine to a backdrop of Indian pop music and Bollywood soundtracks.
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Madras Coffee House
Good, honest South Indian fare – dosa, idli (spongy round fermented rice cakes), uttapam (thick savoury rice pancakes), thali – as well as coffee and chai, served in a simple, slimline cafe-restaurant.
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Ganesh Restaurant
Run by friendly staff, this no-nonsense restaurant – minimal decor, plastic chairs – serves good-quality Indian and Chinese, with vegetarian and meat dishes, as well as the usual curd and banana–based breakfasts.
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Wind & Waves
It's the usual MP Tourism menu, but it's worth facing those 'mood lifters' and staples 'from the soup tureen' for the view across the Upper Lake. Perfect for a pre-Tribal Habitat power-up or a sunset beer.
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Indian Coffee House
As well as good coffee, the guys in white suits and fan-tailed hats serve up delicious breakfasts – from dosa and uttapam to French toast and omelettes – and hearty Indian and Chinese mains.
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