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Best View Restaurants in New Delhi 2026
Monument, golf-course & skyline rooms · New Delhi · 6 rooms ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 15, 2026 · Updated June 15, 2026 · Reviewed by Fredrik Filipsson, Editor-in-Chief · How we rank · Corrections
Delhi hides its best views behind monuments and greenery, not a skyline of towers, which is why the view dinner here means a Mughal minar lit at dusk or the forested fairways of the Delhi Golf Club rather than a glass canyon. That changes the brief: the rooms that matter frame eight centuries of history or a rare stretch of green in a dense city. The six here are ranked on the view and the cooking together, never the view alone, and they split into two clear stories, the Oberoi cluster overlooking the golf course and Humayun's Tomb, and the Mehrauli villas built around the Qutub Minar. Book the terrace, take the earlier sitting, and let the monument do the work a skyline does elsewhere.
1.Baoshuan
A glass pavilion over the golf-course greens, a menu drawn up by a two-Michelin-star chef, lacquered Peking duck. Book at golden hour.
Baoshuan crowns The Oberoi in a glass pavilion on the 9th floor, its menu drawn up by London's two-Michelin-star Andrew Wong and cooked by the hotel's Chinese kitchen, the room looking out over the forested greens of the Delhi Golf Club to the city beyond. The dish to order is the London Peking Duck 1960, the bird lacquered and roasted over the multi-day cure that is Wong's calling card.
Expect about ₹5,000 for two, with a lighter lunch menu added for the hotel's 60th anniversary in 2025. It sits in Condé Nast Traveller India's Top 50 in 2023 and 2025. Book for golden hour, when the low sun turns the fairways gold under the glass.
Book on The Oberoi New Delhi site; request a window at sunset.
2.OKO
Delhi's highest dining room, near-360 glass over the city centre, Thai grilling done properly. Reserve a window seat.
OKO occupies the 28th floor of The Lalit near Connaught Place, billed as the highest restaurant in Delhi, its floor-to-ceiling glass giving a near-360 sweep of the city centre. Master Chef Suriya Phusirimongkhonchai runs a Pan-Asian kitchen where the technique to watch is the open grill, kai yang chicken cooked the Thai way over charcoal, alongside a sushi counter.
Plan on about ₹4,000 for two. The room was the first in India to staff its floor with an all-women service team, and the height makes it the booking when you want the city laid out beneath the glass rather than a single monument. Reserve a window seat and take the earlier sitting for the light.
Book on The Lalit New Delhi site; ask for a window table.
3.Threesixty°
Live kitchens and a bird's-eye view of Humayun's Tomb and the golf course; the daylight booking. Take a daytime table.
Threesixty° is The Oberoi's all-day brasserie, redesigned in the hotel's 2018 reopening, and it earns its place for the view alone: a bird's-eye line over the Delhi Golf Club greens to the dome of Humayun's Tomb, a UNESCO site, framed in the windows. The cooking runs across live kitchens, European, Japanese and Thai stations working in the open so you watch the technique, robata and wok side by side.
Expect roughly ₹4,000 to ₹6,000 for two across the day. It is the daylight booking on this list, the view at its best when the sun is on the tomb and the fairways. Take a window table at lunch and watch the green run to the dome.
Book on The Oberoi New Delhi site; request a window over the golf course.
4.QLA
A heritage-villa terrace with a clear line to the Qutub Minar, French pastry technique on the plate. Sit on the terrace.
QLA sits in a heritage villa in Mehrauli with the single best monument view on this list, a clear line from the wraparound terrace to the Qutub Minar lit against the night. The kitchen is run by Chef Priyam Chatterjee, the first Indian chef made a Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole by France, and the technique shows in the patisserie, a deconstructed lemon tart and a noir-truffle crème brûlée finished to order.
Plan on about ₹3,500 for two, and the room stays open late, past midnight. The terrace is the seat; book it directly and time the booking for after dark, when the floodlit minar carries the room.
Reserve on the QLA site; request a terrace table facing the Qutub.
5.Olive Bar & Kitchen
A restored Mughal haveli with a Qutub glimpse and a wood-fired oven at full tilt. Come for a long dinner.
Olive Bar & Kitchen is a Delhi institution set in a restored Mughal-era haveli in Mehrauli, whitewashed courtyard and rooftop catching a glimpse of the Qutub Minar over the wall. Exec Chef Dhruv Oberoi cooks Mediterranean from a wood-fired oven that runs all night, the technique to book for being the blistered, leopard-spotted pizzas and the grills pulled straight off the flame.
Expect about ₹5,500 for two. The view is a partial, distant Qutub rather than the full frontal line QLA gets, but the haveli setting and the open fire make it the warmer, longer dinner of the two. Come after dark and take a courtyard table near the oven.
Book on the Olive Bar & Kitchen site; ask for a courtyard table.
6.Cirrus 9
The same Oberoi golf-course and tomb panorama, served with a skyline cocktail menu; go for drinks. Book the sunset slot.
Cirrus 9 shares the 9th floor of The Oberoi with Baoshuan and turns the same panorama, golf course, Humayun's Tomb and the city skyline, into a rooftop cocktail room rather than a kitchen-led restaurant. The signature is the 18th Hole, served over a grass cutout of the course, part of a nine-drink menu built around the view.
Plan on roughly ₹3,000 to ₹4,000 for two with small plates and cocktails. It earns a place for the panorama and the open-air seat, but you come for the drink and the view, not a full dinner, so eat properly downstairs at Baoshuan or before you arrive. Book the sunset slot and take a rail seat.
Book on The Oberoi New Delhi site; arrive for the sunset hour.
Avoid for the view
Great food, no view
Indian Accent for a view. It is widely rated Delhi's best restaurant and the inventive Indian cooking earns that, but it sits in The Lodhi at ground level with a garden outlook, not a skyline or a monument. Book it for the food, and book one of the rooms above for the view; do not expect both in one seat.
Tamra at the Shangri-La Eros. The multi-cuisine buffet is strong and the atrium room handsome, but it is a lobby-level space with no notable view at all. If the vista is the point of the evening, this is not the booking; choose the Oberoi cluster or the Mehrauli villas instead.
Reservation strategy for a New Delhi view
Book the terrace or window by name, a few days to a week ahead, and time the booking to the monument rather than the dinner hour. In Mehrauli the Qutub Minar is floodlit after dark, so QLA and Olive are evening bookings, the minar carrying the room once the sun is down. The Oberoi cluster works the opposite way: the golf course and Humayun's Tomb read best in daylight, so Threesixty° and a golden-hour table at Baoshuan are the moves there.
Match the view to the meal. For the single best monument line and serious cooking, QLA's terrace is the booking; for height and the city laid out below, OKO at 28 floors; for the golf-course-and-tomb panorama, the Oberoi rooms. Weekend evenings fill first in Mehrauli, so a weekday table buys a calmer terrace. And remember the Qutub view at Olive is a glimpse, not a full frontal, so go there for the haveli and the oven, and to QLA for the unobstructed minar.
Frequently asked
Which New Delhi restaurant has the best view?
For a monument view paired with the food, QLA in Mehrauli is our top pick: its heritage-villa terrace has a clear, unobstructed line to the floodlit Qutub Minar, and Chef Priyam Chatterjee cooks progressive European with real pastry technique, about ₹3,500 for two. For a golf-course and skyline view with a menu by a two-Michelin-star chef, Baoshuan at The Oberoi is the alternative. Book QLA's terrace after dark, when the minar is lit.
Where can you dine with a view of the Qutub Minar?
Three Mehrauli rooms share the Qutub view. QLA has the clearest, unobstructed line from its terrace; Olive Bar & Kitchen catches a partial glimpse over its haveli courtyard; and the cluster sits along Kalka Das Marg behind the monument. QLA is the booking if the minar is the point, Olive if you want the wood-fired oven and the courtyard setting. Both are evening tables, since the Qutub is floodlit after dark and carries the view.
Which Delhi restaurant is the highest up?
OKO on the 28th floor of The Lalit near Connaught Place is billed as the highest restaurant in Delhi, with near-360 floor-to-ceiling glass over the city centre. The Oberoi's rooftop rooms, Baoshuan and Cirrus 9, sit lower at the 9th floor but trade height for the specific view of the golf course and Humayun's Tomb. For pure altitude and the city laid out below, OKO is the booking; reserve a window seat and take the earlier sitting.
How much does a view restaurant cost in New Delhi?
Plan on roughly ₹3,500 to ₹6,000 for two before drinks at these rooms. QLA is about ₹3,500, OKO around ₹4,000, Baoshuan about ₹5,000, and Olive around ₹5,500. The Oberoi's brasserie Threesixty° spans ₹4,000 to ₹6,000 across the day, and Cirrus 9 is a cocktail-and-plates bill of ₹3,000 to ₹4,000. Lunch is the cheaper way into the daylight views at the Oberoi cluster if the vista matters more than the dinner crowd.
Is there a rooftop restaurant with a monument view in Delhi?
Yes. Cirrus 9 on the 9th-floor rooftop of The Oberoi overlooks the Delhi Golf Club, Humayun's Tomb and the skyline, with a cocktail menu built around the panorama, though it is a bar with plates rather than a full restaurant. For a rooftop dinner with a Qutub Minar view, the Mehrauli villas, QLA and Olive, are the bookings. Go to Cirrus 9 for sunset drinks and to QLA for the monument and a proper meal.
When is the best time to book a Delhi view restaurant?
Match the time to the view. The Mehrauli rooms, QLA and Olive, are evening bookings because the Qutub Minar is floodlit after dark. The Oberoi cluster reads best in daylight, so book Threesixty° for lunch and Baoshuan for golden hour. Across all of them, a weekday table buys a calmer room than a weekend, and a terrace or window seat should be requested by name when you reserve rather than left to chance.
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