Food and Local Markets Tour

Highlights

• Kachori and jalebi, the Varanasi breakfast
• Lassi in a clay cup and the city’s own tomato chaat
• Stalls Shiva trusts, chosen around your allergies or diet
• Malaiyo, the winter milk foam, from November to February

What you will do

We eat where locals eat, a few bites at a time: kachori with spicy sabzi, a hot jalebi, lassi in a clay cup, chaat and sweets, and a Banarasi paan at the end if you are curious. Shiva picks busy stalls where food turns over fast and he can ask what goes into each dish.

How the time goes

1. StartPickup at your hotel
2. +20 minKachori and jalebi
3. +1 hChaat and sweets
4. +1 h 45Lassi, then paan for the brave
5. +2 h 30Back to your hotel

Meeting point

Shiva picks you up at your hotel or guesthouse in Varanasi. Staying near the ghats, where cars cannot go? He meets you at the nearest landmark.

Good to know

• Come hungry, skip the hotel breakfast.
• Almost all the food is vegetarian.

Best for

Food lovers, vegetarians, first-timers nervous about street food.

Meals and tips

Meals are never included, unless the page says so. Shiva can suggest where to eat, and you pay at the stall or restaurant.

Tips are optional. If a tip is useful, Shiva tells you where, how, when and how much, and only then. Nothing else is extra: everything not listed above is included in the price.