What to Eat in Nainital — Best Food & Restaurants
Where to eat in Nainital, and what to order once you're there.
Come to Nainital hungry, and aim your appetite at the Kumaoni food, not the everyday tourist menus. The good stuff hides in the Bada Bazaar lanes: a proper thali, thick jalebi with curd, and bal mithai to take home. Eat local first, café pizza second.
Dishes you can't leave without
The short list, with where a local would send you.
Where Gaurav actually eats
Tried-and-tested counters and kitchens.
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A few things to skip
Eating in Nainital, answered
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Gaurav Joshi
Gaurav knows Nainital from moving through it every day - he runs deliveries across town, up every slope and down every lane most visitors never find. So he'll tell you the useful things: which "lake-view" room actually faces a wall, what's overrated, and what the booking sites leave out. Every stay guide here crosses his desk before it goes live - if it carries his name, a local has vouched for it.
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