Laxmi Misthan Bhandar, Jaipur 01-2015

In the heart of the Pink City, LMB is a well known institution. It is reasonably close to the tourist sites of the City Palace, Jantar Mantar and the Palace of Winds making it a convenient lunch place.

LMB is known for two things - a thali that has the largest number of components (16!!) and a sweet shop foyer before the restaurant that is known for paneer, tikkis and kulfa.

The dishes were fine without anything being particularly outstanding. It did allow me to try the Rajasthani combination of dal-bati-churma with allows a combination of a fried wheat ball, sugary dip and savoury dal. I will admit the main reason I ate here was for the impressively large variety of things and the meal was satisfactory enough.

After filling up there was only enough stomach room to try one thing from the sweet shop, so it had to be the paneer ghewar (honeycomb cake soaked in treacle). It was a room temperature crispy lattice soaked in syrup. They offered me a whole one (which is huge) but I'm happy they allowed me to purchase a weight-based small piece. The intense sugar meant that I was happy just to have two spoonfuls and leave the rest.

I didn't really find many good options online for eating in the Pink City. The only other on my list was Samrat Sweets which specialised in kachori and samosas. Given that you are generally there around lunch time, I think I would try there next time (as the reputation is extremely good) and just snack up.

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