DELHI, MOTI MAHAL & GORDON RAMSAY
Final stop on our world tour of Nepal and India was Delhi. In all honesty, neither of us were excited about going to Delhi, especially having witnessed the filth and stench of the other big cities we visited, including Kolkata, Jaipur and Agra. Our only goals in Delhi were to visit the Red Fort and eat at a restaurant named Moti Mahal, as recommended by Gordon Ramsay and apparently the origins of famous UK curries such as Butter Chicken and Chicken Tikka Masala! With these activities in mind, we booked accomodation at The Broadway Hotel located on the cusp of Old Delhi and New Delhi and just 5 minutes walk from the unimpressive Delhi Gate.
Hotel Broadway run special offers if you book online, we got a free bottle of Indian red wine, cookies, dinner and a free cycle rickshaw ride around the market in old Delhi and all for £80 a night. We got all of these things, except the cycle rickshaw tour was a bit of a let down, basically they pay for the driver to drop you off qt the end of the road and you have to walk it from there, but they did offer to pay our return fare! After a few weeks in India, you find yourself succumbing to the organised chaos, constant misunderstandings and realise that to enjoy yourself, you simply need to lower your expectations, or better yet, have none at all! Moti Mahal is a good example of this.
Before our trip we watched Gordon Ramsays three part series of cooking in India and in part & he is taken to Moti Mahal by one of Indias top food critics. Gordon praised the cooking and highly recommended you go there if in Delhi, so we did and despite the staff being nice, the food was mediocre and the restaurant itself falling apart with bits of the roof collapsing, dodgy toilets and it was a bit drab. However, it wasnt the worst food weve eaten qnd probably worth visiting as its fairly cheap and very very famous!
The Red Fort is a must, but the Ghandi Memorial is somewhat understated with not much to see. The old Delhi bazaar is definitely fun to walk around and there is a mass of everything you could ever need running along long streets and tucked into tiny backstreets and hidden alley ways, it is also just fun to watch the absolute craziness of everyday life there.
Moti Mahal, as recommended by Gordon Ramsay in "Gordon's Great Escape: India"
Links:
http://www.hotelbroadwaydelhi.com/
Muddy Soles 
Nice post.. So Red Fort and Delhi bazaar is a must visit place in Delhi? Thx
Absolutely! The Red Fort is huge. Not the most interesting in Rajasthan, but certainly the biggest. The Bazaar is a must if you want to shop, I’m pretty sure you can get cheap prices and pretty much anything you want here. We did our shopping before we reached here and wished we’d waited. Worth soaking up the atmosphere at the very least. They are within easy walking distance of each other. I’ll update my block with more detailed info. on my return to Scotland.
Thank you very much for the information 🙂 Hope I can visit Delhi soon