The best restaurants Rajasthan

Timetable

The restaurants are open 7 days a week, most often with continuous service from 8am to 10pm for the small restaurants. The more elegant restaurants are open for lunch and dinner, between 12 and 3 pm and 6:30 and 11 pm, or even longer.

Budget & Tips

A meal in a dhaba, a small roadside restaurant, will not cost you more than a hundred rupees. For a more traditional restaurant, you should count between Rs 250 and Rs 500, depending on your appetite. In the best restaurants, the price can reach (but rarely exceed) Rs 1,500 per person

Many restaurants in Rajasthan are vegetarian, and in some cities like Pushkar, it is impossible to find meat or alcohol.

Many restaurants do not have a license to sell alcohol. Therefore, it is rare to be able to accompany your meal with a glass of wine (very expensive and bad) or a beer, except in restaurants for tourists or at the tables of big hotels

What costs extra

Tipping is not mandatory, but is highly appreciated. Generally count 10% of your bill. Service is often included in large restaurants. If this is the case, it will appear on your bill.

The local way

If Indian cuisine is spicy, it is rarely very spicy. The restaurant owners, used to western tourists, adapt their doses to our delicate palates. However, if you don't appreciate spicy food, remember to specify " not spicy" or " medium spicy" when you place your order.

At the local's and in the gargotes, it is customary to eat with the right hand. Your hosts will appreciate your efforts and feel honored if you follow the rule

Traditional Indian cuisine consists of two or three dishes served on a large plate and mixed by crushing with the fingers. Indians will tell you that the flavors are more exalted

To be avoided

If you are invited to eat at a local's house, remember to take off your shoes at the entrance to the house, which is as sacred as a temple. You may be asked to sit cross-legged on the floor and eat with your hands. Always use your right hand, as the left hand is for impure acts

If you have a weak stomach, avoid ice cubes or kulfis. On the other hand, drink only sealed bottled water or water filtered with a RO system

Kids

Children are welcome everywhere in India and occupy such a central place that they can seem quite ill-bred with our western reading grid. You can take them everywhere with you, except in bars where they have no place.

Smokers

Officially, smoking is prohibited in public places, including restaurants. If the rule tends to be more and more respected, you will probably be able to have a smoke after your meal, as long as the room is ventilated or you are on the terrace.

Tourist traps

There are no known restaurant scams in India. The only risk of going to air-conditioned restaurants for tourists is to pay a lot of money for very bad food.