Srinagar
- The City of Lakes
Restaurant
All
the better hotels in Srinagar have attached restaurants,
generally serving Indian, Continental and Kashmiri
cuisine. Other restaurants are mainly located on the
Boulevard, Shervani (Residency) Road, Lambert Lane
and Lal Chowk.
Some
items of wazawaan
A bakery shop in Srinagar
Mughal
Durbar and Ahdoos on Shervani Road, Ruby in Lambert
Lane and Juniper in Lal Chowk are well known for their
Kashmiri cuisine. Solace and Tao Cafe on Shervani
Road and Shamyana on the Boulevard are three known
garden cafes. There are also several restaurants offering
Chinese cuisines such as J&K TDCs
Nun-Kun Restaurant near Nehru Park, Alka Salka on
Shervani Road and Lhasa on the Boulevard. Some restaurants,
both attached to hotels and independent, cater to
the large number of vegetarians who holiday in Kashmir.
These are mainly located in the Dalgate Kohna Khan
area and on the Boulevard. Amira Kadal and
Dalgate have inexpensive eateries where you
can get simple, well cooked meals.
There
are a number of bakeries at Dalgate and Shervani Road.
Some of them, in addition to patties and pastries,
serve Kashmiri breads like 'sheermal' and 'baqerkhani',
without which no Kashmiri breakfast is complete. Kashmiris
use a variety of breads seldom seen elsewhere.
Tsot
and tsochvoru are small round breads, topped with
poppy and sesame seeds and traditionally washed down
with salt tea. Lavas is a cream coloured unleavened
bread; baqerkhani is the Kashmiri equivalent
of rough puff pastry and kulcha is a melt-in-the mouth
variety of short-bread, sweet or savoury, topped with
poppy seeds.
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