Dress code for nice restaurants

geleon3 · Sep 3rd, 2008, 04:22

Are a coat and tie necessary (or desirable) for wear in restaurants located in the better hotels in Delhi and Mumbai?

shashank.aggarwal · Sep 3rd, 2008, 09:53

No they are not.

jyotirmoy · Sep 3rd, 2008, 09:55

No not in general

PeakXV · Sep 3rd, 2008, 10:00

Some of the better private clubs, gymkhanas, yes. Although they often have sport coats, ties available for guests that are unprepared.

SitaParityaga · Sep 3rd, 2008, 10:06

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Originally Posted by geleon3

Are a coat and tie necessary (or desirable) for wear in restaurants located in the better hotels in Delhi and Mumbai?

Hi geleon! You've really got me thinking about dress coats and ties at "nice" restaurants. I've been to them all in San Francisco, (a small town compared to Chicago) and there isn't a single place that has a dress code.

I grew up on the east coast, and I remember lots of dress code restaurants, but that was a long time ago.

Hal · Sep 3rd, 2008, 10:08

If a restaurant has a dress code, it's a usually good indication that I probably don't want to eat there.

SitaParityaga · Sep 3rd, 2008, 10:12

Hey Hal, ya got dress codes in Toronto? Please indulge me, I'm on a roll, even if it is an off topic roll!

Hal · Sep 3rd, 2008, 10:27

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Originally Posted by SitaParityaga

Hey Hal, ya got dress codes in Toronto? Please indulge me, I'm on a roll, even if it is an off topic roll!

Not in restaurants any more. There used to be a few restaurants in the theatre district that would lend you a shiny sports jacket if you showed up without one, but they stopped that in the 80's.

I'm sure some nightclubs will refuse you entry if you're not dressed nicely. Doorman's discretion.

I was at a big hotel near Ottawa this weekend and they had a very vague dress code posted - no bikinis, no bike shorts, no t-shirts inciting violence etc. I think it was just so they could refuse entry to biker gangs.

jyotirmoy · Sep 3rd, 2008, 10:55

Most pubs in Delhi frown on sandals.... may be because they may be used as missiles during brawls???

Ignite · Sep 3rd, 2008, 12:30

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Originally Posted by jyotirmoy

Most pubs in Delhi frown on sandals.... may be because they may be used as missiles during brawls???

Dont know about the pubs, but i got stared down by people for wearing sandles with my destroyed jeans in broad daylight at the City Centre mall in Hyderabad.

capt_mahajan · Sep 3rd, 2008, 12:37

Hey, when they pay me for eating there, they can tell me what to wear

jyotirmoy · Sep 3rd, 2008, 12:39

Who is paying whom to eat where?????
I am all ears

capt_mahajan · Sep 3rd, 2008, 12:42

Elaborating...

When resteraunts pay me to dine there, then I will wear what they want.

As long as I am paying, I don't go where there is a dress code.

Or at least, have stopped going for many years, which became a bit of a problem at the Hyatt Regency in Delhi a few years ago because I was a speaker at a seminar

jyotirmoy · Sep 3rd, 2008, 12:51

Organiser's nightmare Capt?

capt_mahajan · Sep 3rd, 2008, 13:10

Yep. They were persuading me to a) go to my room and get a tie b) take one of theirs.

It got sorted out. I told them to tie the tie to the mike

Sep 3rd, 2008, 04:22	#1
geleon3 Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Chicago, Illinois USA Posts: 4	Dress code for nice restaurants Are a coat and tie necessary (or desirable) for wear in restaurants located in the better hotels in Delhi and Mumbai?

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shashank.aggarwal The Fortunate One Join Date: May 2007 Location: Road Posts: 6,820	No they are not. __________________ Spineless Travelogue - Around India

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