A Typical Chaat Eatery

If you want to eat ‘chaat’, North India’s most popular streetside snack food, Delhi is the place to be. Like Spanish tapas or Greek mezze, chaat can cover a vast variety of things, but Delhi style tends to mean a deep-fried pastry shell, stuffed after cooking with potatoes, lentils or almost anything, then topped with yogurt, chutneys and chaat masala spice mix and eaten fresh.

Some typical chaat options include paapdi chaat (a mix of small round fried crispy discs with yoghurt and other sauces), and pani puri or golguppa (crisp, crunchy bubbles of deep-fried dough that are filled with a sweet-savory filling, then dunked in spiced water).

Here are some of the best places to have chaat in Delhi:

Ashok Chaat Bhandar, Chawri Bazaar, Old Delhi

Prabhu’s Chaat, Shahjahan Road

Natraj – 1396, Chandni Chowk

Bengali Market, Near Connaught Place

All Haldiram/Bikanerwala outlets in Delhi