Places To Eat

Around the TV Tower

Most of the guest houses in this area have small restaurants, which saves you the trek down into town. They all have the usual travelers menus that include pancakes and jaffles. The Tower View is popular, Triveni Guest House is very clean and the Ratna is very good value. 
 

Laden La & Nehru Rds

There are numerous cheap restaurants along Laden La Rd all clustered together between the State Bank of India and the post office. Several of them are Tibetan-run while the remainder offer Indian cuisine of various sorts. Most of them are pretty basic and could use a good scrub down. They include the Golden Dragon, Vineet, Utsang. Potala, Lotus, Penang, Soatlee and Washington.
 

Lhasa Restaurant

It is a very cheap and very basic Tibetan restaurant serving good momos and thukpa.
 

Park Restaurant

It has probably the best Indian cuisine in town. Tandoori items are mouthwatering - chicken sheek kebabs, chicken tikka masala. Decor is Graeco-Roman greenhouse finished off with shower-room curtains, but the food is excellent.
 

Keventer's Snack Bar

Kev's (Keventer's Snack Bar), on Nehru Rd, is a popular place for breakfast and there are wonderful views from the open terrace. They have got ham, bacon, sausages and cheese, but service can be tediously slow.
 

Glenary's

Glenary's, is an excellent place with a definite ghost-of-the-Raj air to it. Downstairs is the bakery; if you arrive early enough you can get very good brown bread. They also have croissants, doughnuts, garlic bread and a wonderful range of cakes. Tea time here is still a special occasion upstairs in the restaurant where you can also have full meals.
 

Windamere Hotel

It is the place to go for a splurge. If you are not staying here, you must book in advance. Here you are served a full western meal, such as roast chicken, followed by a full-on Indian meal of curry, rice and chapatis! But it's not just food you get for your money - you are entertained by a pianist or string quartet during dinner and afterwards you can retire to the drawing room for a brandy by the fire. you can also come here for tea which includes the best Darjeeling tea, cucumber sandwiches and cakes, and the pianist tickling the ivories next door.
 

Others...

Hasty Tasty, further north up Nehru Rd, is a busy fast food and ice cream parlour with excellent south Indian dishes and good views over the valley.

New Embassy Chinese Restaurant, in the Hotel Valentino, is the best Chinese place in Darjeeling.