Varanasi-Any suggestions for clean good eating???

robotvoice

another suggestion, for good middle eastern food try the Haifa Hotel, Assi Ghat.
I enjoyed vaatika as well, great pizza and great location for watching sunset.
I could add to this thread all day long, since I love to eat and i love varanasi!

cyberbaba

i never met anyone who didn't get sick from eating at haifa.

i did go for chicken (crazy i know) in a decent older hotel some distance out west of assai crossing. anyone know the name? cheap and clean in a very big room (red chairs) that felt like it was out of the shining movie

cameo

In Varanasi now and cannot recommend highly enough the Cafe Aum at Assi Ghat. Run by an energetic American woman and her charming staff, the vegan food is completely organic. The baked goods are divine, salads crisp, tasty eggless omelets and sandwiches, excellent French press coffee. This spotless little restaurant is an oasis of calm. It's a little hard to find -- on a small lane near/opposite Temple on the Ganges. Open 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., breakfast and lunch only; closed on Monday.

Can also recommend Open Hand for the best coffee in town; Haifa for Middle Eastern, and Vaarika for stone oven pizza and decent thalis.

Darmabum

A place comes to mind . . . more or less in the Asi area . . . take the narrow road up past the cinemas and post office (big green water tank on your right) then up at the intersection of the Lanka road, there is a thali place on the right, big open doors to some inside seating, but red plastic chairs hugging the road. Really good thali.

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