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8 unusual Indian restaurants you need to visit

TIMESOFINDIA.COM | Last updated on - Apr 13, 2020, 13:58 IST

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Popular and unique restaurants

Food brings everyone together and engages them in a memorable time of merriment, laughter and joy. Restaurants, street food stalls, ‘dhabas’ or eateries, all bring out the curious child in each of us. We all live to eat, and eat to enjoy. Food is that one entity that is common to all occasions of happiness, grief or celebration. Thus, food is something that forms an integral part of different cultures all over the world.
All across India, there are many restaurants and eating joints that are famous and have been serving people for a long time. Also, with globalization, many Michelin Star chefs came to India and set up their own high end restaurants that serve cuisines from all across the globe. These restaurants are top notch and rely a lot on ambience. However, there are many ‘unusual’ restaurants in India that attract the attention of foodies. They are different and unique in their own way and never fail to satisfy the taste buds of their customers. Here are 8 unusual Indian restaurants you need to visit!

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Tihar Food Court, Delhi

Set within the largest complex of prison in South Asia, this restaurant is famous for its food which is prepared by the inmates themselves. These inmates take care of everything from waiting tables to managing accounts. (Image: Facebook)

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New Lucky Restaurant, Ahmedabad

Ever considered eating with the dead? This place will give a creepy experience of a lifetime. It functions in a place that used to be a graveyard! On top of this, there are actual graveyards inside the restaurant. When asked about the reason, the owner while serving his signature ‘bun muskas’, smiles and says that the graves are a good luck to him. (Image: Facebook)

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Veli Lake Floating Restaurant, Trivandrum

As the name suggests, it is a floating restaurant established in the middle of a lake. Surrounded by nature’s beauty from all sides, it serves fresh food prepared from local produce. It is the right place for all nature enthusiasts to soak themselves in serene and tranquil bliss. (Image: YouTube)

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The Bar Stock Exchange, Mumbai

This drinking joint treats its drinks as stocks, and yes, its customer as stock brokers. The price of drinks at this place increase or decrease like the stock market. When the bar opens, the drinks are cheap and prices start to increase with time. A drink may become very cheap or ridiculously expensive depending on its supply and demand. So check your pockets and bidding skills before entering this place! (Image: Facebook)

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Seva Café, Ahmedabad

This restaurant believes in community service and having a big and empathetic heart. The meal that you have in there, has already been paid for you by someone else. All you have to do is to pay for someone else’s meal. Seva Café also encourages its customers to help out in any other way they wish to do. (Image: Flickr)

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70 mm, Hyderabad

If you are a true Bollywood person and live for gossip, masala, fame and paparazzi; then 70 mm is just for you! The restaurant has adorned its walls with iconic posters of legendry Hindi movies like ‘Mother India’ and ‘Mughal-e-azam’. On top of that, it screens famous movies all the time.

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Nature’s Toilet Café , Ahmedabad

Eating and excreting, are two very essential body processes. It seems that Nature’s Toilet Café has managed to link the two processes in the quickest way possible! Instead of having of the typical chairs, instead it has commodes to sit on while you are eating. It also owns a ‘Toilet Garden’ that has a collection of more than 20 lavatories and urinals dating back to the 1950s. (Image: Facebook)

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Kaidi Kitchen, Chennai

If you have never been to jail before and do not desire to do so, but still want to experience what it means to eat behind bars, then Kaidi Kitchen is the right place for you. The restaurant is designed as a typical ‘police thana’ and does not fail to give an experience of jail. With the staff dressed as inmates and jailers, it sure is an experience.

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