About Sky Grill (Vivanta Lucknow)
Sky Grill is the Vivanta Lucknow's rooftop restaurant — a fifth-floor dining room with continuous bay windows facing the Gomti River and the city's eastern Gomti-Nagar business district. The kitchen runs as Modern Indian fine dining with strong Awadhi-Lucknow regional roots: a six-course tasting menu built around traditional Awadhi techniques (slow-cooked dum biryani, hand-formed galouti kebab, royal-style korma) interpreted with Modern Indian plate presentation and finer ingredient sourcing.
A typical six-course meal: an amuse of galouti-kebab cromesquis with mint-chutney foam; a chicken-shorba clear soup; a sashimi-style seer fish with Lucknow saffron; the centre-protein Awadhi-Style Lamb Nalli Nihari with a small portion of sheermal bread; a Lucknow Mutton Biryani course with a small accompanying raita; and a dessert of saffron-pistachio kulfi with rose petals. Pricing runs ₹3,500-5,500 per person.
The room seats forty across the rooftop dining hall plus four window-side private booths used heavily for proposals, anniversary dinners, and milestone birthdays. The 270-degree window faces north-east-south, giving sunset views in the western sky and Gomti-river-and-city-light views east at dinner. Reservations matter — the window seats book two weeks ahead for Saturday evenings.
What makes Sky Grill the city's reference proposal address rather than just a hotel rooftop is the Modern Indian narrative — every plate is built from Lucknow-Awadhi traditional techniques but presented with the kind of Indian-fine-dining refinement that the city's older institutions don't attempt, and the meal genuinely succeeds as a regional set-piece rather than just a hotel buffet. For travellers who want a Lucknow dinner that reads as both Awadhi-culturally-rooted and internationally-comfortable, this is the city's clearest answer.
Best Occasion Fit
For a marriage proposal in Lucknow the Vivanta rooftop is the city's clearest answer — request a window booth, tell the staff in advance, and they'll handle every operational detail. For impressing visiting international clients with a single Lucknow dinner, the Modern-Indian-fine-dining presentation flatters the guest in a way the Chowk originals don't. Birthdays — particularly anniversary dinners — fit the format perfectly.
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