Gourmet products local specialties and wines India

The Sunset Lounge, Nathmull's tea shop/library, has moved to C.R. Das Road, past Coffee Day Café. The new location has a larger seating capacity and a beautiful view of the valley. The menu offers a wide variety of teas (black, green, white) but also home-made pastries and snacks. Possibility of a tasting. Many teas and accessories for sale. Warm welcome. The best place in town to enjoy a cup of tea!

The talented chef, Tejasvi Chandela, has managed to open a real French patisserie in Jaipur. Trained at the famous Cordon Bleu school, she has created her own pastry café in the chic Civil Lines district. The atmosphere is perfect to enjoy an espresso or a cappuccino with a delicious cake. Everything is there for a gourmet break: comfort, elegant decor, subdued lighting and soothing colors. The menu is varied with teas, juices, cakes and pastries, but also savory snacks.

If the inhabitants of Delhi appreciate it, it is because the atmosphere is simple and popular. It's true that this kind of big open-air shopping mall has a little old-fashioned charm that we really liked. As is often the case in India, the merchants are grouped by specialty in the same alley or the same neighborhood. You will find in Karol Bagh clothes, wedding articles or household linen. Jewelers gather on Gurudwara Rd, while Gaffar Market is dedicated to electronics and household appliances.

You can find everything in this new establishment! Ideal to buy some food before your cruise or for the rest of your trip...

If it is impossible to come to India without tasting the deliciousness of lassi, it is definitely forbidden to come to Jaipur without trying the Lassiwala experience. This is the best - and oldest - lassi shop in town! Plain, salty, sweet, banana, pineapple or kesar special, they are simply delicious. Very fresh, all are served in traditional clay pots to eat in or take away. But beware, three stores located side by side have the same name. The real one is at n° 315 (red and yellow sign).

If you want to discover all the subtleties of chai, spiced or not, and the many variations of Indian tea, this is the place to come. Ideal for a break during the day, this tea room has all the assets. With its old wooden floor, its nice caned armchairs, its warm and soothing colors, you will see Jaipur in a different light. That of a modern and trendy city. A pleasant terrace is installed on the roof. Located just in front of Central Park, you will probably want to extend this moment of softness with a walk in the greenery.

The small shop, held by a French very well-spoken Sikh, offers the best teas, chai and spices in the neighbourhood. Saffron, of exceptional quality, is at a competitive price, nutmeg is sold in their hulls, les pods of seeds will come to perfume your desserts and prolong your holidays. You will surely be offered a chai winery and if you succumb to this beverage, don't forget to take the shop card, the recipe is noted on the back.

This trendy café-restaurant offers a varied and very eclectic menu. On the snack side: pizzas, pastas, paninis, burgers, burritos, falafels, hummus, fish & chips, egg rolls, salads... it's hard to get more international! For the gourmets, the place also proposes varieties of tea (Assam, Darjeeling, etc.), coffees, fresh fruit juices and succulent pastries. In the room, a good smell of coffee will awaken your taste buds. Baker's is the right place for breakfast (several formulas) and snacks.

Since 1962, this confectionery sells cakes, including chocolate, large varieties of biscuits, tea, chips, bread bread and all kinds of local sweets. It's good and cheap.

This market stretches for 500 meters from Outer Circle to the Imperial Hotel. You will find in the stalls clothes and handicrafts more or less old. The commercial artery continues with the Tibetan Market: handicrafts from Tibet, statuettes of Hindu gods, cotton fabrics, etc. Less convincing than the Tibetan market in North Delhi, it is still worth a visit if you are in the area. A word of advice: bargain hard. You will also find Rajasthani artisans and hawkers offering anything and everything.

The neighborhood, known for its book market, is also the right place for aspiring and experienced musicians. Stores are lined up along Netaji Subhash Avenue and in the adjoining alleys, between Delhi Gate and Jama Masjid metro stations. You can find all the classical instruments of Indian music(sitar, tabla, sarod, flutes...) as well as violins and guitars. But the articles are not always of good quality.

An ecological boutique filled with good ideas. This environmental organisation proposes to travellers, large consumers of water bottles, to replenish water without waste: at a lower cost (count 10 Rs/litre), each can complete its gourd or bottle with purified water. Ecological laundry service (60 Rs/kg). Also sells good jams and other local products from organic farming (apricot juice, cereals, cakes). Finally, the site is friendly and has a small, playful library.

One can easily get lost in this maze of narrow and picturesque streets. The stores in the bazaar offer everything that the western visitor can expect from a typical Rajasthani city: spices, colorful fabrics, incense, leather goods and also some stores for tourists. You will surely be approached by musicians of the Bhopa caste who will play sweet melodies with their rawanata, a typical Rajasthani hurdy-gurdy. Smiling, their women dressed in their colorful clothes, will try to sell you some trinkets.

Around the palace, merchants' stalls abound. You will be able to find your happiness there, whether it is silver jewelry, paintings, clothes, fabrics..., but be careful, you will have to negotiate firmly and the authenticity of certain articles is not always guaranteed. You will also find stalls full of cult objects, such as cups used to hold offerings or votive statuettes. Here the merchants are a little less aggressive than those who store on the street leading to the City Palace.

Connaught Place is full of gastronomic institutions that one hardly notices, caught up in the crowd and the gaudy stores. Wenger's is one of them. Since 1926, the reputation of this pastry shop that delights gourmands is well established. The employees are as numerous as the specialties; normal, when a crowd is constantly jostling in front of the cakes, cookies, sandwiches or pies (savory and sweet). You can leave with your selection or enjoy it on the red-brick table.

The largest spice market in Asia is known for its quality products and competitive prices. It is named after the salt water tank (bâoli) in the street. In the middle of a noisy and crowded atmosphere, you will find all kinds of spices, but also herbs, dried fruits (especially at Jain Dry Fruits at stand n° 6530), tea, pickles... This market, which has been in operation for over a hundred years, is frequented by restaurateurs and individuals alike for the quality of its Basmati rice.

The store is discreet and yet it is always full. With its choice of various milkshakes (vanilla, pineapple, mango, chocolate, butterscotch, coffee...), Keventer's delights the taste buds and quenches thirst. The fresh flavored milk is served in bottles, to be tasted on the spot. A gourmet break that is not to be refused, especially since the shop is a real institution. It dates back to 1925, when Edward Keventer, a Swedish milkman charged with modernizing the dairy industry in India by the British government, created his own farm in Delhi.

This market, located quite far from the tourist areas, starts after the Clock Tower. You have to get lost in the alleys, or walk down the main street that leads to the vegetable market. Prices are often a little lower than in the centre, but the choice is just as vast: silver and gold jewellery, multicoloured fabrics, miniatures, semi-precious stones... As anywhere else, take the time to look, weigh and negotiate the price. As this market is mainly for locals, not all traders speak English.

After a bath of crowd among the tourists of the whole world come to admire the Taj Mahal, make a plunge in the Indian atmosphere,the true one! Around the Jama Masjid mosque, merchants and craftsmen perpetuate the tradition of the bazaar dating back to the feudal period. In this set of winding streets unchanged since the Mughal era, you can find all sorts of goods divided by product and by trade: saris, aluminum, shoe soles, padlocks, jewelry ... Few tourists venture here and it's a shame.

This small traditional bazaar allows the inhabitants of Fatehpur Sikri to stock up on all kinds of items: food, jewelry, sari, kitchen utensils... The atmosphere is relaxed and as authentic as in a remote village in the region. Few tourists come here and you will leave behind the stifling atmosphere of the mosque and the palace. Here, you will meet beautiful people and, unless you speak Hindi, you will haggle for prices in sign language! Good memories in perspective.