Restaurants in Eastern Rajasthan
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Trattoria
This Italian restaurant offers wood-fired pizzas and pasta dishes - even Italians recommend it. It's on the candlelit rooftop, and offers a rare chance to eat outside in Jaipur. It's behind Amber Tower.
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Peacock Rooftop Restaurant
Overlooking Hathroi Fort – and most of Jaipur – this multilevel rooftop restaurant with an extraordinary peacock canopy has excellent views and food to match. Sit in the quirky iron furniture or upstairs in the romantic nook to enjoy superb Indian and Chinese dishes, or even a pizza. There are great value thalis (veg and nonveg starting at Rs50) and Western breakfasts.
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Lassiwala
This milky institution is a simple little place that whips up fabulous, creamy lassis (yoghurt and filtered iced-water drink) served in clay cups. Will the real Lassiwala please stand up? It’s the one that says ‘Shop 312’, directly next to the alleyway; imitators spread to the right as you face it.
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Handi Restaurant
This old favourite is opposite the main post office, at the back of Maya Mansions, and offers scrumptious barbecue dishes and Mughlai cuisine in a village atmosphere. In the evenings a deliciously tempting smoky kebab stall sets up at the entrance to the restaurant.
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Rainbow Restaurant
Set on a small rooftop with a view over the lake, the Rainbow hums with satisfied customers. The pasta is excellent, and the ice-cream sundaes overflow with sugary goodness. The hummus with fresh pita is pretty darn authentic.
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Little Italy
A delightful garden restaurant with wood-fired pizzas and excellent pasta, pita and hummus. The pesto is made with home-grown basil, and the coffee is good by Pushkar standards.
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Jaipur Inn
This guesthouse has a rooftop restaurant with stupendous views over Jaipur. The scrumptious Indian veg buffet dinner is sociable and superb (nonguests book in advance).
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Mohan
This popular chow pit is grubby on the outside, but prepares freshly cooked food on the inside. The name is in Hindi and it’s on the corner of the street.
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Dr Dosa
Though it has a quirky name and a cartoon sign, this classy all-veg restaurant is worth a visit. Enter through the defensive wooden door, and inside you’ll find a feature fish tank, dim lighting and white linen tables with silver service – including goblets. As the name suggests there are traditional dosas, but there are also multicuisine versions of this South Indian classic. And it’s not all dosas: North Indian, Chinese and continental dishes are also offered.
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Moti Mahal Delux
The famous Delhi restaurant now has franchises all over India delivering its world-famous butter chicken to the masses. The tantalising menu features a vast range of veg and nonveg, including seafood and succulent tandoori dishes. Snuggle into a comfortable booth and enjoy the ambience, spicy food and, last but not least, a delicious pista kulfi (pistachio-flavoured sweet similar to ice cream).
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Om Revolving Restaurant
The rocket-shaped tower of Jaipur houses a revolving restaurant 56m above the glittering city. The surrounds are almost glitzy, and the alcohol-free vegetarian menu features several Rajasthani specialities as well as many multicuisine variations. The central stage occasionally hosts live ghazal singing (Urdu songs derived from poetry; sad love themes).
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The rocket-shaped icon of Jaipur houses a revolving restaurant that leaves you dining 56m up among the smog-sheltered stars. The surrounds are glitzy, and the hard-core veg - and booze-free - menu is superb. A revolution takes 45 minutes, but service is invariably quicker. Keep your hands off the buffet - it doesn't match the à la carte. It's off MI Rd.
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Little Italy
The best Italian restaurant in town, Little Italy is part of a small chain that dishes up excellent vegetarian pasta, risotto and wood-fired pizza in cool, contemporary surroundings. The menu is extensive and includes some first-rate Italian desserts. There is a lounge bar attached so your vegetarian dining can be accompanied with wine or beer.
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Ganesh Restaurant
This pocket-sized outdoor restaurant is in a fantastic location on the old city wall. There’s not much English spoken, but if you’re looking for a local eatery with fresh tasty food you’ll love it. It’s near New Gate, with a narrow, hidden stairway between two tailors – you’ll no doubt be helped to find the stairs.
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Niro’s
Niro’s has been on duty for more than 50 years, and still pumps out classic Indian fare and piped muzak. Under a mirrored roof, masses tuck into the extensive range of veg and nonveg dishes. The lal maans (mutton in spicy red gravy), and began bharta (aubergine) were delicious.
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Natraj Restaurant
This classy vegetarian restaurant has an extensive menu featuring North Indian, continental and Chinese cuisine. The stuffed tomato is divine, and the potato bomb curry will blow you away. There’s also a good selection of thalis, and South Indian fans will find scrumptious dosas.
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Copper Chimney
Near Handi Restaurant, Copper Chimney is a chic, elegant place with a friendly waiter army and a rollicking horse mural. It offers veg and nonveg Indian as well as a small selection of Continental and Chinese food. Indian wines are available to accompany the generous portions.
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Prem Pavitra Bhojnalaya
Alwar’s best restaurant is in the heart of the old town, and has been serving up inexpensive, fresh, tasty pure-veg food since 1957. You have to pay Rs10 per person to eat in the air-con section – but it is worth it. Try the special kheer (creamy rice pudding).
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Rawat Kachori
For great Indian sweets – including Jaipur’s own sticky ghevar (a honeycomb-shaped cake covered in ghee and milk) topped with flaked almonds – head to the mobbed Rawat Kachori; a delicious milk crown should fill you up for the afternoon.
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Moon Dance
The attraction here is the neatly manicured garden setting, which puts you at ease as soon as you take a seat. Perhaps there’s positive energy emanating from the Vishnu temple opposite. The Indian and Italian are good and there’s a small range of Mexican dishes.
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Honey & Spice
A tiny breakfast-and-lunch place that delivers homemade banana cakes, sandwiches, tofu steak and hearty concoctions served on a bed of brown rice. It is run by a friendly man who is a mine of local information. Oh, and the South Indian coffee is the real deal.
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Spice Court
This relaxed clubhouse restaurant, with a blue tiled roof and a splendid evening courtyard, is an excellent place to escape the hum of the city (but not the hum of Hindi pop). The food is fresh, the kitchen spotless, and the kebab platter is serious business.
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Inderlok Restaurant
This main road restaurant has lots of palatable veg and unusual paneer choices. There's a typically hushed and gloomy ambience in the air-con room, which is plain and functional. It's popular with for business-lunch deals and with courting couples.
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Four Seasons
This smart, hugely popular place is on two levels, with a glass wall to the kitchen. It’s an alcohol-free, pure vegetarian place with a mouthwatering menu featuring Rajasthani, North Indian and South Indian specialities, thalis, dosas and pizzas.
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Sun-N-Moon
This neohippy haunt attracts all kinds for its Italian menu and friendly staff. The courtyard is home to a bodhi tree, a shrine and hungry tortoises. Breakfast includes lassis and masala chai, while for the homesick there are hash browns.
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