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Hidden Gems

Food tours and tastings to book

Best rated first, weighted by reviews, from the cities on this list. One per city.

Everything to book in Jaipur, Mumbai, Delhi

All 24 hidden gems

Ranked by our editors.

Sampat Namkeen Bhandar

Sampat Namkeen Bhandar in Chandpole Bazaar, Jaipur, has fried spicy aloo kachori with an unpeeled-potato filling since 1936, by Time Out's account.

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Yazdani Bakery

Yazdani Bakery in Mumbai: Tucked in a tiny Fort alley off Akbar Ally, no signage, easy to miss; the wood-fired oven has stayed lit for six decades.

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Gurdwara Bangla Sahib Langar

  • ★ 4.2
  • Connaught Place
  • Delhi

Gurdwara Bangla Sahib in Connaught Place, Delhi, runs a free community langar where anyone can sit on the floor to eat dal, roti and kheer with worshippers.

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Jimmy Boy

Fort Parsi institution at Vikas Building off Horniman Circle since 1925; only place in Mumbai serving Lagan nu Bhonu wedding meal, Patra ni Macchi, Salliboti.

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Haji Shabrati Nihari Wale

Haji Shabrati Nihari Wale has cooked only nihari since 1957 in a lane behind Chitli Qabar in Old Delhi, open for two short windows in the morning and evening.

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Puran Ji Kachori Wale

Puran Ji Kachori Wale has fried hing kachoris filled with moong dal at Chaura Rasta in Jaipur since 1963, and serves them with fresh curd instead of chutney.

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Nand Chaat Bhandar

Nand Chaat Bhandar, known locally as Nandvala, serves paani puri and dahi papdi at its Fashion Street address in Raja Park, Jaipur, from 16:30 to 21:00.

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Soam

Soam is opposite babulnath temple, away from chowpatty's tourist bhel carts; pinki dixit cooks the home-style gujarati menu locals send friends to find.

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Bhansaghar

Bhansaghar sits at the tip of Humayunpur, Delhi's Northeastern food pocket, cooking Nepali food: a Thakali thali, duck curry, kothey momo and jhol momo.

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Bishan Swaroop Chaat Bhandar

Bishan Swaroop Chaat Bhandar has sold a short menu of chaat on Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi since 1923, led by aloo chaat, aloo ke kulle and fruit chaat.

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Pancham Puriwala

Pancham Puriwala is open since 1848 near csmt, no signage, no marketing; the pancham thali has been the same for four generations of mumbaikars.

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Kerala House Samridhi Canteen

  • ★ 3.9
  • Connaught Place
  • Delhi

Kerala House Samridhi Canteen on Jantar Mantar Road in Delhi is the Kerala guest house canteen, open to walk-ins for breakfast, a matta rice lunch and dinner.

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Banga Bhawan Canteen

  • ★ 3.9
  • Connaught Place
  • Delhi

Banga Bhawan Canteen on Hailey Road in Delhi is West Bengal's guest house kitchen, run by the caterer Bijoli Grill and open to the public for Bengali meals.

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Govinda's

  • ★ 3.8
  • Greater Kailash
  • Delhi

Govinda's is the restaurant inside the ISKCON temple at East of Kailash in Delhi, cooking sattvik vegetarian food without onion or garlic for a buffet.

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Ramchandra Kulfi Bhandar

Ramchandra Kulfi Bhandar on Tripolia Bazaar in Jaipur sells kulfi near Badi Chaupar until 23:00; Outlook Traveller's writer rates it a rival to Pandit Kulfi.

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GC Dairy

GC Dairy on Chaura Rasta in Jaipur's old city serves sweet makkhan, lassi and chaach, with the butter handed over on leaves and the buttermilk in kulhads.

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Radhe Kachori Wala

Radhe Kachori Wala is a small old-city shop on Churukon Ka Rasta in Jaipur, frying spicy kachoris and hot samosas from 06:00 to 22:00 every day.

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Kaljug Halwai (Tiporewalas)

Kaljug Halwai, also called Tiporewalas, sells mirchi ki tipore, a pickled green chilli snack, off Kishanpole Bazar in Jaipur's walled city until 22:00.

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