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Moti Mahal is a restaurant chain founded in Delhi, India. [2] Founded after the partition of India in 1947, [3] [4] the Moti Mahal in Delhi was founded by Kundan Lal Gujral, Kundan Lal Jaggi and Thakur Das Magu as one of the first restaurants to introduce Punjabi cuisine and North Indian cuisine to the rest of the world such as tandoori chicken, paneer makhani, dal makhani, and butter chicken.
Daryaganj also has what was once the only restaurant of Old Delhi, the Moti Mahal founded by Kundan Lal Jaggi, Thakur Das Mago and Kundan Lal Gujral, [18] most known for the invention of butter chicken and modern dal makhani. [19] Another notable modern restaurant is Chor Bizarre near Delite cinema, which serves Kashmiri cuisine.
Kundan Lal Jaggi (10 September 1924 – 4 March 2018) was an Indian chef and restaurateur based in New Delhi.Kundan Lal Jaggi is the inventor of butter chicken, dal makhani, paneer makhani and the founder of the Moti Mahal restaurant along with his partners Kundan Lal Gujral and Thakur Das Magu in 1947 in Daryaganj, Delhi.
The restaurant, Moti Mahal, was hugely successful, drawing the likes of President Richard Nixon, Jacqueline Kennedy and India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, before it closed in 1992.
Amit Bagga, CEO of Daryaganj restaurant, shows a freshly prepared butter chicken dish and the lentil dish Dal Makhani inside a Daryaganj restaurant at a mall in Noida, India, January 23, 2024.
As of July 2018, Connaught Place ranked as the ninth most expensive office location in the world, with an annual rent of $1,650 per square meter ($153 per sq ft). [3] [4] [5] Connaught Place, the main commercial hub of the new city, holds a place of pride and is recognized as one of the top heritage structures in New Delhi.
The curry was developed at the Moti Mahal restaurant in the Daryaganj neighbourhood of Old Delhi in the 1950s, after the Partition of India [7] by Kundan Lal Jaggi and Kundan Lal Gujral, [8] who were both Punjabi refugees from Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, British India.
Nirula's is India's oldest fast food restaurant chain. [1] [2] It was Delhi's first fast food restaurant, opening in Connaught Place in 1977.Today it has over 70 outlets in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh, offering a "Desi" version of Western fast food items.