From fruit-flavoured coffees to cocktails with betel leaf, tickle your tastebuds at these cool cafés and bars in Jaipur.
Whether you want a cocktail or coffee, the Pink City has definitely raised the bar. Its umpteen options range from chic bars in hotels that are perfect for a quiet evening with friends or a date night to cafes that serve single origin coffees roasted in-house. Next time you are craving a drink or a coffee, you have plenty of places to choose from.
Cafés
Roastery Coffee House
Sipping coffee while you relax around a stepwell inside a beautiful bungalow is a unique experience that this café offers. Since it opened its doors in August, it has been wooing coffee lovers with its choice of French Press, Pour Over, and Aero-Press. Their fruit-flavoured coffees and the hot chocolate that goes from 55 to 85 per cent dark are also clear favourites. The food options vary from fries, chicken wings, pastas, pizzas, sandwiches, burgers, and salads. For early birds, we highly recommend those breakfast platters.
Address: J-8, Subhash Marg, near Kerala Bhawan, C Scheme, Ashok Nagar, Jaipur
Anokhi Café
One of the few vegetarian cafes in the Pink City, this organic food café has climbed up the popularity charts over the years. The menu is not extensive but their dishes are prepared with produce sourced from their farms. So whether you pick sandwiches, salads, or a range of baked goodies, rest assure that it will be light and fresh. Dessert lovers, don’t ignore the Baked Mascarpone Cheesecake. Vegan and gluten-free options are also available here.
Address: 2nd Floor, KK Square, C 11 Prithviraj Road, C Scheme, Jaipur
Curious Life Coffee Roasters
The aroma of coffee is all-pervasive the moment you enter this café where coffee beans are roasted and packaged in front of you so you can make a purchase as well. Single roast coffee is available in many forms — from bottled cold brew, Vietnamese style cold brew, espresso tonic, pour over, French Press, and more. The coffee is carefully sourced from estates and farmers in India and Africa as well. And along with your brew, you can always try some sandwiches, waffles, pancakes, or toasts.
C 54 A, Sarojini Marg, Panch Batti, C Scheme, Ashok Nagar, Jaipur
The Coffee Cartel Jaipur
If you are looking for a café that has both indoor and outdoor seating and fits the bill for multiple occasions — be it a coffee date, a meeting, or just catching up with friends — The Coffee Cartel is where you should head to. A cosy place, the range here includes Dalgona, a variety of cold brew concoctions, classics like ice teas and shakes. Food options are not limited either as the menu includes sandwiches, salads, pizzas, burgers, pastas, and more. Dessert lovers, don’t return without trying their Nutella and Biscoff Cheesecake.
Address: Shop NO.-G, Plot No 146-147, Ground Floor, 102, Vivek Vihar Road, Bajaj Nagar, Jaipur
BARS
Bar Palladio
In the Pink City, enter this classy bar with a stunning blue and white décor that stands out from the city’s overriding colour theme. You may wonder whether you’ve wandered into Greece’s Santorini, but the hand-painted floral wall designs and jali lamps pull you straight back to Jaipur. Apart from the stellar cocktails, they also have a range of dishes, and you must try their pizza ravioli.
Address: Narain Niwas Palace Hotel Kanota Bagh, Narain Singh Road, Jaipur
Jharokha Bar, The Leela Palace Jaipur
One of the city’s most elegant bars is at this lavish palace hotel and is well stocked with international wines, single malts, cognac, and cocktails. If you like cocktails, then opt for something with a local touch that the mixologists create with ingredients like red chilies, betel leaf, saffron, and more. The names are local as well – Ghoomar, Padharo Mhare Des, and Pink City. If you want to nibble with your drink, the options range from kebabs, gyozas, and samosas to chilli chicken.
Address: Jaipur-Delhi Highway, NH 11, Kukas, Jaipur
The Johri & Sons
Situated in a five-room luxury boutique hotel in one of Jaipur’s oldest bazaars, this classy bar is lit up with candles and lamps to lend that soft, warm ambience. This bar is a collaboration between the hotel, The Johri, and Stranger & Sons gin, thus the name. The cocktail menu focuses a lot on gin cocktails of course. For instance, Nazariya, which is a Negroni but made with watermelon. The Pickler’s Prescription is gin, dry vermouth, and pickled apricots. It’s all about focusing on the drinks here — the food menu is limited to just six dishes. They even have zero proof cocktails. There are a few bar takeovers lined up for the next few months.
Address: 3950, MSB Ka Rasta, Johri Bazar, Ghat Darwaza, Jaipur
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