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Chic Chocolate
Around the corner from Atithi Guest House, this pastry shop serves excellent cheese toast (with onion and peppers). It also bakes its own bread and cakes.
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Copper Chimney
Near Handi Restaurant, Copper Chimney is a smart, classy place with a gruff waiter army and a rollicking horse mural. It offers top-to-bottom Indian and Chinese food in a cool, pleasant setting, with a window over the mayhem of MI Rd.
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Four Seasons
This smart, vastly popular place - expect to wait on weekends - is on two levels, with a glass wall to the kitchens. It's a bit out of the way but has hearty vegetarian food and a great range of Rajasthani dishes. Try the mutter paneer (peas and unfermented cheese) or a thali.
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Ganesh Restaurant
This pocket-sized outdoor restaurant is in a fantastic location on the old city wall. There's no English menu and not much English spoken, but if you're looking for a local eatery with fresh tasty food you'll love it.
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Gayatri's
This pleasant, clean multicuisine restaurant whips up superb curries in healthy portions. The Kashmiri dam aloo (a traditional Kashmiri dish made with potatoes and spices) is a winner.
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Handi Restaurant
This old stalwart offers scrumptious barbecue dishes, and tandoori and Mughlai cuisine. In the evenings it sets up a cheap kebab stall at the entrance to the restaurant.
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Ice Spice
A short stroll south of Evergreen Guesthouse, this locals' place does a roaring trade in Rajasthani thalis, and a good side business in South Indian dishes.
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Jai Shankar Pavitra Bhojnalaya
Close to the main bus station, this popular pure-veg place does especially good Indian breakfasts. Limited English, but it's fast, fresh and delicious.
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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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Jal Mahal
This packed little takeaway ice-cream parlour has some inventive concoctions, from the earthquake to the after ate.
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Kanji
Sells a fabulous array of Indian sweets. Across the road is the equally fabulous Rawat Kachori.
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Lassiwala
This milky institution is a simple little place that whips up fabulous, creamy lassis (yoghurt and iced-water drink). Will the real Lassiwala please stand up? It's the one that says 'Since 1944', directly next to the alleyway; imitators (some pretty good) spread to the right as you face it.
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LMB
LMB is heart-warming stuff - an Art Deco-meets-disco sattvik (pure vegetarian) restaurant going strong since 1954. The menu includes a warning from Krishna about people who like putrid and polluted food (tamasic) . All meals are made with pure ghee (clarified butter), and puri (flat dough that puffs up when fried) snacks such as kachori ( puris pepped up with corn or dhal) and gol gappas (Indian-style breakfast of puris and vegetables) are the best in town.
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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, a few steps down from the pavement.
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Mr Beans
India's premier coffee chain still has the best cuppa in this town; you'll find the Jaipur branch opposite the Raj Mahal Hotel.
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Natraj Restaurant
This classy, two-level vegetarian restaurant has an extensive menu featuring North Indian, Continental and Chinese cuisine. The stuffed-tomato dish is divine, and the bomb curry will blow you away. Otherwise there's a good selection of thalis, but the South Indian food is oily and bland.
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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 veg and nonveg dishes. The murg malai (chicken and cheese) kebabs and began bharta (aubergine) still head the list.
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OM
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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Palace Café
A welcome respite from the tourist shuffle, Palace Café has classy Indian food, measured service, and a no-nonsense team of chefs who won't be hurried. It's better at night, when it's cool enough for alfresco dining.
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Rawat Kachori
For great Indian sweets - including Jaipur's own sticky ghevar (a honeycomb-shaped cake made from flour and dhal and 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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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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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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