Park Balluchi

Description:

• A regular winner of India's Tourism Award for the country's best restaurant, Park Balluchi enjoys a prized location on the grounds of Delhi's leafy Deer Park, in Hauz Khas. Turbaned waiters in waistcoats serve an extensive range of kebabs and spicy tandoor items. For some light drama, order Afghani-style murgh-potli (tandoori chicken): chicken breast stuffed with minced mutton and served over a flaming sword. The specialty at Balluchi is the lazeez dohra kebabs, tantalizing combinations of two meats (chicken and prawn marinated in herbs, or minced lamb with minced chicken). Newer favorites include raan sikandari, roast leg of lamb marinated in herbs, spices, and rum and then grilled in the tandoor. Vegetarians should order mewa paneer tukra, chunky Indian cottage cheese stuffed with raisins, sultanas, walnuts, and other nuts; preparation of this dish takes at least 12 hours. Be sure to get a side order of peshawri naan, bread cooked in the tandoor oven with poppy seeds and coriander leaves. If you book for lunch, you may even catch a glimpse of scampering rabbits, strutting peacocks, or one of 300 spotted deer that roam the park. And we haven't even started on the cocktails . . .

• © Frommer's 2013

Awards:

Frommer's

•  Very Highly Recommended 2010