Oooh, I do love a Daal Makhani.
Where is this place? Can you send a link or address?
Hanging around with the street kids, the glw and I would just go to dirt cheap places in the Ganj, with the odd expensive breakfast in a 5* like the Imperial on Janpath. (Closest to the 'Ganj, see?)
The glw's been filming in Rajasthan since new year but she'll be back to Delhi in a week or two. As we've missed both her birthday and Valentine's it would be nice to tell her I've booked a meal for her.
How much would it cost, do you reckon, and how far is it from the Ganj/New Delhi railways station/CP?
It's a while since I was there, sadly. But here's the linky https://punjabibynature.in/
When I got back to Delhi from Rajasthan once I asked my chum to take me for a laal maas. He took me to a shopping mall, where we sat in a reproduction Victorian railway carriage... I thought he'd brought me to a tourist trap but it was absolutely superb, as good as any laal mass I've had in Raj. Do you know the place I mean?
Was it actually Delhi or one of the bourgeois new towns around it like Gurgoan or Noida?
Apparently they have shopping centres, but I've been there, and I can't think of any shopping centres in New Delhi, let alone old.
Connaught Place (CP) is about as plush as anywhere I've been. Though it's looking so much chicer now than when I first arrived 25 years ago. But I preferred it before it had all the intl brands like Nike or Apple or whatever.
There used to be this milk shop that did the best milk shakes in the world, sold to you in an old fashioned glass milk bottle with a straw for a pittance.
Did you know that cold coffee was invented in New Delhi? I make my own with ice cream and milk in a blender when it's hot at home. And will have one out there when it's hot, though I have a lassi when less so.
It could have been Gurgoan, I suppose.
A waiter in a restaurant in Connaught Place once brought me an ashtray and insited I enjoy my after dinner smoke at my table, despite the smoking ban' because 'these rules don't apply to white men'. It felt like 1932.
They do like a smoke. Though did you know that the law banning smoking in govt buildings which preceded the restaurant ban by several years doesn't apply to sadhus smoking chillums? They're allowed to smoke chillums anywhere.
I do love CP though. Going very upmarket now. I kinda miss the homeless smackheads smoking in the doorways. Much nicer than the Nike shop you see in every sodding capital.