5 Best Restaurants in Rajasthan, India

This spacious café with chic interiors is a popular spot with locals who come for their excellent coffee (which is roasted on-site) and baked goods like croissants, Korean buns, and sandwiches as well as all-day breakfast items like omelets and pancakes.

With bright green interiors, warm lighting, and indoor plants, this bakery-cafe is a great spot to stop at after exploring Saheliyon ki Bari. Their coffee is excellent, as is their dessert selection that includes tea cakes, brownies, and cheesecakes. There are also smoothies, shakes, cold-pressed juices, and standard European cafe-fares on offer.

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.

Jodhpur's most famous sweet shop buzzes till 11 pm, so consider stopping here for dessert. It's a good place to sample regional delicacies; test your chilli tolerance level with the spicy mirchi bada, a huge pepper that's been breaded and deep-fried or, for something sweeter, try the local specialty mawa kachori (a pastry filled with nut-based milk solid), ghevar (disc-shape sweet), or rabri laddu (milk balls). The place serves Indianized vegetarian versions of American-style fast food—think pizzas and burgers—though they are just okay at best. There's another branch of Janta near the railway station, but you are best off hitting the main branch at Nai Sarak.