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Where we love to eat, what to see in Delhi, where to shop — and where to go if you're staying a little longer.
Where we love to eat in Delhi
Delhi is filled with incredible restaurants, from small local favourites to some of the best fine-dining spots in India. With more than 120,000 restaurants and places to eat across the city, there is far too much to include here.
So instead of a general city list, we’ve picked some of our favourites, places we genuinely love and would recommend ourselves. Restaurants marked “In Aerocity” are within walking distance of the hotels. The others are usually around 20–40 minutes away by taxi.
Looking for a hotel? All our accommodation picks live on the Where to stay page.
In AerocityQavalli, Aerocity
View →Definitely one for the list. North Indian and Mughlai food, good cocktails and live Qawwali on selected evenings, currently Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
In AerocityMonsoon, Worldmark
View →Modern Indian. Smart but less formal. Easy for a relaxed evening.
In AerocityChidya Ghar, Roseate House
View →A fun peacock-blue bar with brass lighting and very good cocktails, our pick for a drink (or five) before or after dinner.
In AerocityKwality Restaurant
View →Opened in 1940. An old Delhi institution with a beautiful bistro room, classic North Indian dishes done the way they have been for decades.
In AerocityThe Beer Cafe
View →Relaxed and informal, with a long list of beers on tap. Beer and pizza, what is it not to like?
In AerocityDaryaganj
View →The inventors of butter chicken. Classic North Indian and an easy introduction to Delhi food for first-time visitors.
Chi Ni, The Roseate New Delhi
View →Elegant Chinese cooking in a garden pavilion, a beautiful room and one of the loveliest dinners in the city. At The Roseate New Delhi, not the Roseate House in Aerocity.
Indian Accent, The Lodhi
View →Modern Indian fine dining — the one we'd save for a special dinner..
Bukhara, ITC Maurya
View →Iconic Delhi restaurant, known for North-West Frontier and tandoor cooking.
Varq, Taj Mahal Hotel
View →Modern, elegant Indian fine dining.
What to see in and around Delhi
A handful of places we'd genuinely send you to. Some are tourist traps, but worth it anyway. All are either an easy Uber ride from Aerocity or a trip with a driver from your hotel.
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Where to shop in Delhi
Delhi is a wonderful place to buy an outfit for the wedding. Tailoring is quick and inexpensive, so most shops can adjust something within a day or two.
South Extension, Lajpat Nagar and Shahpur Jat — go with time to spare, and expect to try a lot on.
DLF Emporio and The Chanakya for designer labels and beautifully made Indian couture — calm, air-conditioned and lovely even just to walk through.
Viktoria will put together a list of shops where you can find Indian attire — lehengas, sarees and suits — at affordable prices, so you know exactly where to go.
Staying longer? Travel on to Punjab
Simerjit is from Punjab, the Sikh heartland of northern India, where wheat fields stretch to the horizon, music is rarely played quietly, food keeps arriving long after you are full, and hospitality is almost a competitive sport. If you have a few extra days before or after the wedding, that is where we would send you first.
A simple plan, day by day — scroll through it below.
Fly to Amritsar
1 hour from Delhi
Short morning flight from Delhi. Punjab starts the moment you land: wheat fields, loud music and very generous people.
Make a holiday out of it
More time? Then see more of India or travel around Asia. The country is enormous and wildly different from one region to the next. Palaces and deserts in Rajasthan, lakes and old towns in the south, beaches in Goa, mountains in the Himalayas. You have already made the long flight, so a few extra days go a very long way.
Delhi is well connected to most of it, with short domestic flights to the places below, and it also makes it easy to continue on to somewhere else in Asia or the Middle East on the way home.
Jaipur
Perfect for 2–3 nights and one of the easiest additions to your trip. Stay in a palace hotel, visit the City Palace and Amber Fort, wander the bazaars and enjoy Rajasthan's food and architecture. Several nonstop flights from Delhi every day.
Udaipur
One of our favourites if you want something especially beautiful: Lake Pichola, palace hotels, rooftop dinners and sunset boat rides. Ideal for a relaxed, luxurious 2–3 nights.
Goa
After several days of celebrations, Goa is ideal for switching off by the sea — a beach resort, a spa, good restaurants and a few quiet days in the sun. Frequent nonstop flights from Delhi.
Or break up the journey home with a stopover — all easy nonstop flights from Delhi.
Dubai — our favourite
≈ 3½ hrs nonstopDelhi and Dubai is our own favourite combination. It breaks up the journey home, and there is something lovely about landing somewhere calm and organised after the beautiful chaos of India — beaches, shopping, restaurants and world-class hotels. Emirates alone flies four times a day from Delhi.
Fun fact: more than 2.2 million Indians live in Dubai, making up roughly 35–40% of the city's total population.
Singapore
≈ 5¾ hrs nonstopPerfect for a few days of incredible food, shopping, rooftop bars and modern city life. Singapore Airlines flies nonstop twice daily.
Sri Lanka
≈ 3½–4 hrs nonstopBeaches, wildlife, tea country and beautiful boutique hotels. Colombo is served nonstop from Delhi by several airlines.