Indian, Vegetarian restaurants in India
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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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Shankara Vegis Restaurant
Another Taj Ganj old-timer, this rooftop vegetarian restaurant does a shockingly good thali (Rs90) and comes with a laid-back atmosphere, a view of the Taj (just about) and games like chess and carrom (a table-top game in which fingers are used to flick playing pieces across a powered board and into corner pockets).
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Joney’s Place
Open at the crack of dawn, this pocket-sized, brightly painted, travellers’ institution whipped up its first creamy lassi in 1978 and continues to serve visitors veg snacks, pancakes, toasted sandwiches and the like.
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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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Mid Town
Mid Town is fine dining with a choice of seating, live folk music and great veg food. It serves Rajasthani specialities, including some particular to Jodhpur, such as chakki-ka-sagh (wheat dumpling cooked in rich gravy) and kabuli (vegetables with rice, milk, bread and fruit). The Rajasthani thali costs Rs100.
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Kailash Parbat
Nothing fancy, but a Mumbai legend nonetheless thanks to its inexpensive Sindhi-influenced vegetarian snacks, mouth-watering sweets and extra-spicy masala chai. Kailash Parbat Hindu Hotel across the street is its also good, more playful, cousin.
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Maxim’s Cafe
Maxim’s has a small, two-tiered roof-top terrace overlooking the Jagdish Temple. The fresh, pure-vegetarian food includes Indian staples plus Chinese, continental and pizza.
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Chandan Restaurant
At Hotel Nahar, Chandan serves up delicious veg dishes in elegant surroundings. Thalis are served at lunchtime or choose from a range of biryanis and Chinese dishes.
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Veg Baba
This spanking new place down a side street off 18th June Rd dishes up delicious Indian vegetarian delights of all descriptions, and is friendly, cheerful and efficient. A self-declared ‘meat-free zone’, it’s clean, cool and blessed with a good line in proverbs: ‘An elephant is 50 times stronger,’ it reminds us sagely, ‘It is vegetarian.’
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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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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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Vihar Restaurant
A vast menu of ‘pure veg’ food, great big thalis and a plethora of fresh juices make this clean, simple canteen a popular place for locals and visitors alike. Sip a hot chai, invent your own juice combination, and dig into an ice cream for afters.
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Suprabhatham
This cosy little veggie place dishes up excellent, dirt-cheap and truly authentic Keralan cooking in a rustic setting. Out in the palm groves, it’s secluded and intimate, with an option to dine under the stars to a nightly orchestra of crickets.
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Teej
Superbly painted with Mughal-style murals the wonderfully atmospheric interior feels like a Rajasthani haveli (traditional, often ornately decorated, residences). The excellent, 100% vegetarian food is predominantly Rajasthani, too.
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Annapurna
Annapurna is an extremely popular veg option that looks like a high-school cafeteria and serves consistently good karma-friendly fare, ranging from crisp southern dosas (paper-thin lentil-flour pancakes) to rich North Indian–style curries.
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Mango Masala
With dim, bar-like lighting and crèche-style decor, this no-alcohol, veg cafe is where Ajmer’s teens hang out. There’s an extensive menu of pizzas, Chinese, and North and South Indian, as well as cakes, ice cream and sundaes.
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Honeydew
This dimly lit, staid place has long been Ajmer’s best, and it’s still the restaurant of choice for Mayo College students. There’s a good selection of veg and nonveg Indian, Chinese and continental food (including pizzas).
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Park Dining Room
The large dining room at the Park has a hint of elegance with wood panelling and soft music. Veg and nonveg Indian, Chinese and continental food includes chicken au gratin, fish dishes and Mughlai tandoor specialities.
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Shikhar
This hugely popular vegetarian restaurant with Tibetan and Indian snacks and meals is tucked under the Pizza Pan restaurant. Ultra cheap momos and filling chow mein are the most popular orders.
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Parivar Restaurant
Eat here for good-value South Indian vegetarian food; try the various masala dosas for breakfast or the all-inclusive thali for Rs. 70. The restaurant’s downstairs from the HDFC Bank.
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Sagar Ratna
This sparkling, modern chain-restaurant specialises in vegetarian Indian food. Big windows, wickedly delicious coconut dosas and good air-con justify slightly elevated prices.
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Drive Inn
Sandwiches, chaats (snacks) and plate-lickingly good vegetarian food are served in a modest open-air ‘garden’ with simple fan-pavilion tables. Try the stuffed capsicum.
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New Keshari Ruchikar Byanjan
This 1st-floor veg restaurant, specialising in both North and South Indian cuisine, is the nicest place to eat along this busy market street and is popular with local families.
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Jai Shankar Pavitra Bhojnalaya
Convenient to the main bus station, this popular, simple veg place does especially good Indian breakfasts. There is limited English, but the food is fast, fresh and delicious.
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Zorba the Buddha
Neat little tables are set around a central, marble pillar in this fun veg restaurant. Specialities include kofta (giant mashed potato balls) and paneer (unfermented cheese).
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