Best Restaurants in Mussoorie

Mussoorie is the most architecturally complete colonial hill station in north India - a 1820s British summer retreat built along a 7,000-foot ridge above the Doon Valley, with the heritage Mall Road, the Camel's Back walk, the Library Bazaar and the Landour cantonment all preserved more or less intact. The dining scene reflects that history. Heritage colonial mansions (Rokeby Manor, Savoy Hotel, the Tavern, Whispering Windows) have been restored as hotels and restaurants over the last two decades; a luxury international resort tier (JW Marriott Walnut Grove, Jaypee Residency Manor) has anchored on the periphery; and the Landour quarter - the smaller, quieter cantonment village 2,000 feet above the Mall Road - holds a clutch of small independent contemporary restaurants that have shaped the modern Mussoorie food identity. The cooking runs from heritage Anglo-Indian (the colonial summer-retreat plate that the British officer class developed in the late nineteenth century), through northern Indian and Garhwali regional, to a confident contemporary international register that takes the high-altitude pantry seriously.

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