Where to eat
Every restaurant below is somewhere we would actually send a traveller — with the dish to order, the neighbourhood it sits in and one honest note before you go.
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16 restaurants · India
Mum's Kitchen
Known for a broad menu of regional Goan dishes and a setting suited to a relaxed family meal.
Vinayak Family Restaurant
A straightforward place for a traditional Goan lunch and thali-style eating.
Masala Chowk
A single stop where families can sample several Jaipur snacks without moving between crowded streets.
LMB
A long-standing option for sweets, snacks and a full vegetarian meal near the old city.
Saravana Bhavan
The dependable answer when the family wants full South Indian breakfast in central Delhi — fast, consistent, pure-veg.
Karim's
Seven decades of Mughlai cooking behind a plain doorway — the kebabs are the reason to come.
Britannia & Co
A century-old Parsi café with a mint-pie cult following and a dining room frozen mid-century.
Leopold Café
Colaba's loud, wall-scrawled meeting point — decades of travellers, journalists and locals over one long bar.
Kayees Rahmathullah Café
Behind the mosque, this is where Fort Kochi eats its burekka and pathiri — cheap, hot, perpetually busy.
Old Lighthouse Bistro
A quiet bistro above the old lighthouse lane doing Kerala fish without the restaurant theatre.
Jharokha
Lake-facing thali hall where the platter keeps arriving until you surrender.
Upré by 1559 AD
A rooftop table over Lake Pichola — the view earns the price for a once-a-trip dinner.
Paranthe Wali Gali
A gali of fried bread since 1872 — the paranthes are heavy, historic and best attacked early.
Kake Da Dhaba
Post-midnight Punjabi plates for office workers and cabbies — butter runs generous, prices do not.
Pinch of Spice
The reliable sit-down after the Taj — clean room, full tandoor, staff used to families.
Joney's Place
A traveller fixture for two generations — cheap thalis, bad maps on the wall, honest advice over chai.
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