There can be no two thoughts about it; a large part of travel is food. Good food has the potential of making any tour better and, of course, being a part of a particular area's local dishes can provide many a cherished travel memory. A travel to Delhi will give you an opportunity to enjoy some of the finest eating-places, well known not only in India but the world over.

Delhi has a wide variety of restaurants and cuisine from all over the world. Crammed with fascinating eating places, Delhi is a place which caters to every budget, from traditional north Indian cuisine to yummy Indian snacks by gaslight in the street in Palika Bazaar, Paharganj and Janpath, to Western food at McDonald's, Wimpy, TGIF, Pizza Express and Pizza Hut.

Whether you wish to splash out on a buffet lunch in an ostentatious five-star hotel or simply tucking into steaming Chat Papri at the roadside stall.

Connaught Place is renowned for snack bars and a lot of upmarket restaurants, as well as budget sit-down joints. The market area of Paharganj provides somewhat inexpensive food. Here the smell of pungent spices from several eating joints fills the air.

Delhi is associated with Frontier and Mughlai cuisines. You can relish the best of Mughlai cuisine at Karim, (both in Jama Masjid and Nizamuddin) where recipes, dating from Mughal period.

Darbar (Ashoka Hotel), Delhi Ka Aangan (Hyatt Regency) and Corbetts (Claridges) are among the options available in the costly range, while Angeethi (Asiad Village), Gulati Restaurant (Pandara Market) and Degchi (Regal Building) are among those catering to the needs of those with the modest budgets. Frontier (Ashoka Hotel), Baluchi (The Hilton) and Bukhara (Maurya Sheraton) provide the finest Frontier cuisine.

Delhi has a number of specialty restaurants- Dum Pukht or the process of slow cooking developed in Awadh (Maurya Sheraton), EI Arab (Regal Building), Thai food at Baan Thai (The Oberoi) and Sukothai (Hauz Khas Village), Kashmiri food at Chor Bizarre (Hotel Broadway), Japanese food at Tokyo (Ashoka Hotel) and Osaka (Hauz Khas Village), Mexican food at Rodeo (Connaught Place) and Tibetan food at eateries near Chanakya Theatre.