Tired of Indian food and fancy something in the way of Western cuisine then a lunch or dinner at Basil & Thyme might be the answer. The inventive menu is continental-orientated but quite varied as tastes might range from quiche Lorraine to bratwurst, chicken pasta, pate to moussaka. Sweet-tooths might relish tiramisu, chocolate cake with plums or a cake crammed with...

The highly rated Bukhara restaurant in the ITC Maurya Hotel specialises in North-West Frontier cuisine (North-West – anywhere from Kashmir through northern Pakistan and into southern Afghanistan) which involves tandoori (clay oven) cooking. Let the restaurant describe its cooking methods “The food at Bukhara is cooked in clay ovens or tandoor in the traditional style of the Indian North-West Frontier...

A very unusual restaurant at the Hotel Broadway trading on oddness and quirkiness. Chor means thief, bizarre is self explanatory and when you visit you’ll see why. You can dine around a four-poster bed (bedding removed) or at glass covered tables revealing an astounding array of knickknacks gathered underneath. You’ll also see that none of the cutlery seems to match....

Definitely the place for an important dining occasion. The Dumpukht in the ITC Maurya Hotel is named for a style of cooking that comes from the principality of the Nawab of Avadh (Lucknow), around 200 years ago. The cooking process involves slow roasting of the meal within a container sealed with a pastry dough. The slow cooking of the ingredients...

Hauz Khas is a small village isolated from the continuous urban developments of South Delhi by a large parkland that also surrounds some important 14th-century monuments. It is this isolation that made it so attractive to trendy Delhiites who moved in and set up an upmarket commercial area with restaurants, art galleries, antique shops and designer-clothes shops. Its popularity peaked...

As much an art gallery and museum as a hotel, The Imperial Hotel has been a New Delhi landmark since 1936. Royalty, politicians and pop stars have bunked down here and much of the deal that gave India its independence was thrashed out in its rooms. Lady Willingdon, wife of the Viceroy and a well-travelled woman, decided that Delhi needed a first...

While this restaurant has good food, the main reason for coming here is the top-of-the-world view of Delhi, which changes by the minute. This is Delhi’s only revolving restaurant taking about 90 minutes to do the circuit. From this height you can appreciate how really green the city is. The best views are north over Connaught Place although the distance...

When you fancy a real Western-style cooked breakfast complete with eggs, bacon, sausages, toast, marmalade and all the trimmings, then consider lashing out at the 1911 Restaurant at the Imperial Hotel. Here you can read the paper, linger over your meal and if the weather is good sit out on the terrace. The restaurant is named after the main event...