3 Best Restaurants in Rajasthan, India

Café Namaste

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This little bakery and café in the Hotel Gangaur Palace, with courtyard or rooftop seating, sells fresh pastries and cakes, as well as delicious, real espresso. If you come for breakfast, try the baked beans on toast or the soft cinnamon rolls (not always available during summer months), apple crumble, or date-and-walnut pie. The café is on a busy thoroughfare, but you can take your coffee and pastry upstairs to its sister venue Natural City View (same menu). It also serves international dishes at lunch and dinner.

339 Ashoka Haveli, Gangaur Ghat Marg, Udaipur, Rajasthan, 313001, India
294-242–2303
Known For
  • espresso
  • breakfast pastries
  • rooftop terrace with views of Lake Pichola
Restaurants Details
Rate Includes: Credit cards accepted

Cafe Nature's Blessing

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This small café and bakery offers a range of healthy, light food, be it a tofu stir-fry or one of the interesting salads—all prepared to order. If you have had one too many naans or paneer-butter-ghee packed lunches, head here for a sandwich with homemade bread, cheesecake, or a healthy vegetarian or vegan meal.

Little Tibet

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Most of the restaurants within the fort are vegetarian for historical reasons (mainly vegetarian Brahmin families lived in the fort), but a small section, where Rajput families live, have a few nonvegetarian restaurants—Little Tibet is one of them. It serves a mix of Tibetan (momos, vegetable and meat, great thukpa soups), Chinese, and Indian, with a few global items thrown in. The Indian nonvegetarian food is competently cooked if not hugely exciting; Tibetan fare is better. You can either eat at the main level or climb up to the rooftop, lit with fairy lights, and eat under the stars. It stays open later than most places inside the fort.

Fort Kotri Para, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India
779-195–7921
Known For
  • meat dishes
  • Tibetan dumplings
  • rooftop seating
Restaurants Details
Rate Includes: No credit cards

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