21 editor picks in Delhi.
21 upscale places in Delhi, editor-picked. occasion restaurants in Delhi: destination kitchens for celebrations and visits. All Delhi food.
Chef Manish Mehrotra's Nisaba occupies the Humayun's Tomb Museum in New Delhi's Sunder Nursery, reworking Indian street and home food across 42 dishes.
OrderChilli tomato crab ghotala with butter buns, or the Champaran mutton.
TipThere is no tasting menu in the main room, only 42 a la carte dishes; Nisaba is about 900 metres from Indian Accent, where Mehrotra made his name.
Sidecar in Greater Kailash 2 runs a two floor bar and bookstore, and this Delhi bar has topped the 30 Best Bars India ranking in three separate years.
OrderA Potter's Touch cocktail with the Bartender's Fried Rice.
TipThe bar opens at 13:00, the bookstore and Subko counter from 10:00; ranked No. 8 on the 30 Best Bars India 2025 list.
Chef Ritu Dalmia's Diva has cooked Italian food in Greater Kailash 2, Delhi, since 2000 and marked 25 years in 2025 with a menu of its best-loved plates.
OrderDuck carpaccio, or the warm salad of prawns poached in Marsala and orange.
TipBook ahead for dinner in the M Block market; ask which dishes from the 25th-anniversary menu are still running.
Chef Adwait Anantwar's INJA at The Manor in New Delhi mashes Indian and Japanese technique, a tempura shiso leaf standing in for palak patta chaat.
OrderChawanmushi spiked with rasam masala and butter-poached lobster.
TipINJA sits inside The Manor hotel in Friends Colony West, the same property where Indian Accent first opened in 2009.
The Drop roasts nano batches in a mezzanine lab above its Hauz Khas Market counter, pouring coffees from Tamil Nadu estates such as Moganad and Orchardale.
TipThe roasting lab is on the mezzanine above the Ground Floor counter; ask which estate is pouring before you order.
Barbet & Pals in Greater Kailash 2 takes its cocktails from the Himalayan foothills, a Delhi bar by bartenders Jeet Rana and Chirag Pal with Amninder Sandhu.
OrderA Bird's Eye View cocktail with the Naga pork sausage Bar-Brat.
TipThe basement holds Cavity, a separate weekend tasting bar from the same team; book both in advance.
Olive Bar & Kitchen serves Mediterranean plates and pizza in a tree-lined courtyard near the Qutub in Mehrauli, Delhi, with a Sunday brunch.
OrderThe cheese souffle, then a pizza or gnocchi from the Mediterranean menu.
TipThe Sunday brunch is the draw; book the courtyard for it, and come at dusk on weekdays for dinner under the trees.
L'Opera bakes croissants, breads and French pastries at its compact Khan Market patisserie counter, one of several L'Opera boutiques across Delhi.
TipThis is a compact patisserie and boulangerie counter without extended seating, open 08:00 to midnight; take pastries to go.
PCO in Vasant Vihar opens to a weekly code keyed into a phone booth; this Delhi speakeasy won the Times Food and Nightlife Best Bar award six years running.
OrderEve's Choice or Oral Fixation from The Forbidden menu, or book the Director's Room for mood cocktails.
TipThe four-digit code changes every week and goes out to PCO's WhatsApp patron list, so get the code before you go; the door opens for five seconds.
Hoots in Vasant Vihar's Basant Lok market is a dim, intimate Delhi cocktail bar that reached No. 59 on the Asia's 50 Best Bars 51 to 100 list in 2021.
OrderThe miso old fashioned twist and a whisky sour with chamomile foam.
TipIt is a small room; go on a weeknight if you want a seat at the counter without a wait.
Savorworks roasts coffee, makes bean to bar chocolate and cooks Thai-leaning plates under one roof in Masjid Moth, Greater Kailash, in south Delhi.
TipEvery coffee arrives with a small glass of soda to clear the palate; try a bar of the house chocolate alongside.
Top Banana sits above Ikk Panjab in Greater Kailash 2, a vinyl-only Delhi cocktail room with a wood-edge bar for scribbling late night notes.
OrderThe Shadow Play martini with the Artichoke Ice Riot small plate.
TipThe bar-top doubles as a guestbook; ask staff for a marker to leave your own note.
Lair in Vasant Vihar's Basant Lok market is a film noir styled Delhi speakeasy, ranked No. 8 on Asia's 50 Best Bars and No. 96 in the world in 2025.
OrderThe Moroccan Symphony or Calendula Punch, with the char-grilled chicken.
TipRenesa designed the room in black concrete, glass and slivers of light, closer to a film-noir set than a Prohibition bar.
Ministry of Beer in Connaught Place calls itself Delhi's first microbrewery, holder of the city's first brewery licence, and brews its own beers in M Block.
OrderA tasting round of the house German wheat beer and coffee beer.
TipThe food menu changes every six months, and the taps and kitchen run from 12:00 to 01:00 every day of the week.
United Coffee House has served coffee and a long continental and North Indian menu in Connaught Place, Delhi, since 1942, the year of the Quit India movement.
OrderThe lamb kebab platter or the badshahi kofta, with a pot of coffee.
TipThe dining room runs from 10:00 to about 23:45, so it works for a late-morning coffee between Connaught Place errands.
Daily Drama pours beans from several Indian roasters side by side at this Defence Colony market cafe in Delhi, built for comparing origins cup by cup.
TipThe room is up on the 1st and 2nd floor of the market; order the flight format to taste several roasters at once.
The Love Hotel is tucked inside Guppy on Lodhi Road, a 20-seat Delhi cocktail room from the Olive Group with a naked bar and playful drink names.
OrderThe Late Checkout old fashioned with the crunchy summer wraps.
TipThe room seats only 20, so a booking ahead of a Friday or Saturday night helps.
The 24/7 Bar inside The Lalit New Delhi pours cocktails and finger food around the clock, a genuine all-hours room on Barakhamba Avenue near Connaught Place.
OrderA cocktail from the bar list with a plate of finger food.
TipLounge music plays through the night; the hotel says the bar is open 24 hours, seven days a week, for a drink at any hour.
Have More has cooked Mughlai and North Indian food on Pandara Road in Delhi since 1959, and locals still order its award-winning butter chicken.
OrderThe award-winning butter chicken with a side of mutton burra.
TipBook ahead on weekend evenings; the small dining room fills fast after 20:00.
Perch Wine & Coffee Bar pairs coffee, a rotating wine list and light bites in a first-floor room above Khan Market in Delhi, open daily from 08:00 to 00:00.
OrderA glass from the wine list with a light bite from the food menu.
TipIt is on the first floor at 71 Khan Market and runs from 08:00 to midnight, so it works for a morning coffee or a late glass of wine.
Perch Wine & Coffee Bar pours about 30 wines by the glass in a first floor room at Khan Market in Delhi, open from breakfast at 08:00 until midnight.
OrderA glass from the wine list with a light bite from the food menu.
TipIt is on the first floor at 71 Khan Market and runs from 08:00 to midnight, so it works for a morning coffee or a late glass of wine.
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