If the best way to understand a place and its people is through their food, this walk around the aroma-filled alleyways is just perfect. Lucknow is loved for its street food and restaurants, each with their own speciality and cooking technique, whether flame-grilled saffron skewers or curries fused with heady local spices.

Visit some of Lucknow’s most authentic eateries with a self confessed gastronome to get a taste of what makes the cuisine here so delicious.