Best for Casual Dining

Twelve tables, mismatched chairs, a chalkboard that hasn't been rewritten in a while, and a queue outside from 9am on a Sunday. Hole in the Wall has earned its reputation on breakfast, and the room is genuinely charming — sunlight through the front window, plants in the corner, conversation loud enough to be comfortable. The gap is at the pass: we waited 35 minutes for food after ordering, and nobody checked in once.

A narrow room, bright overhead lighting, laminated menus and a counter you order at if the tables are full — Nasi and Mee is a canteen with better cooking than it advertises. Food came out in eleven minutes. Nobody hovered, nobody upsold, and the bill for two came in under ₹900. The trade-off is that there's no atmosphere to speak of: you eat, you're happy, you leave.

The display counter at the front is doing most of the work here — cheesecakes, éclairs, a red velvet under glass that half the room orders. Behind it the café is pleasant enough: bentwood chairs, marble-look tables, a laptop at every second one. Where it thins out is the kitchen. The bakery is clearly the business; the savoury menu reads like something added later, and our order came out lukewarm without an apology.