Where to get the best dining experience

For years and years now,I have been listing out my favourite restaurants in Brunch and in the HT City Food Guide to Delhi. HT City also hands out popular awards, voted for by its readers (The  Crystal Awards) every year. The Crystals are a mark of popularity and success. My awards are much more modest amounting to no more than a list of personal favourites.There are some surprises in this year’s list. For instance, non five star restaurants and outlets have done very well in areas that were traditionally dominated by the hotel sector. For instance, the Best Chinese restaurant, the Best Multi-Cuisine restaurant and the Best Bakery are all standalone operations. I have also instituted a new award for The Restaurant Chain of the year to recognise the growth in this sector.But some things do not change. The Best Indian restaurant award still goes to Dum Pukht. The Orient Express is still India’s best French restaurant. And Pan Asian manages to reinvent itself every year.Best Chinese: Royal China For years and years, this award has gone to the relatively obscure “The Chinese” in Connaught Place. But because the road outside the restaurant has been dug up for months making access difficult, I’m giving “The Chinese” a break this year. There are many more Restaurants in Gurgaon also providing the best Dining Services Instead the award goes to the Delhi branch of Royal China, a London-based chain of separately-owned restaurants. There are already popular Royal Chinas in Bombay but they are not in the same league as the Delhi outpost with its exquisite dim sum, its great roast pork and its perfect stir-frying.The restaurant’s only handicap is its location on the higher floors of an office building in Nehru Place but once you get inside, the food is so good and the view so wonderful that you’ll forget that you are in an office building.Best European: Orient ExpressBest Indian: Dum Pukht Best Japanese: Wasabi,Best Oriental: Pan Asian,Best Brunch: ITC Maurya,Best  Bakery: L’Opera,Multi-Cuisine Restaurant: Setz,Opening of the Year: Le Cirque,Restaurant of the Year: Café Diva,Hotel of the Year: The Oberoi, Gurgaon.Explore Chinese Restaurants in indiranagar Bangalore India   Source"HT"