{"id":835,"date":"2025-07-01T23:16:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/?p=835"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:16:24","slug":"cafe-lota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/hi\/restaurants\/cafe-lota\/","title":{"rendered":"Caf\u00e9 Lota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Address:&nbsp;National Crafts Museum &amp; Hastkala Academy, Bhairon Marg,&nbsp;Pragati Maidan,<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">New Delhi<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Phone:&nbsp;078 38 960787<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Working hours:&nbsp;8.00 am-10:00 pm&nbsp;All days open&nbsp;Valet Parking Also Available<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are some ideas that seem like a no-brainer \u2013 once someone has thought of them. Sitting at a table at the New Delhi National Crafts Museum &amp; Hastkala Academy\u2019s new outdoor restaurant, Caf\u00e9 Lota, which soon fills up with what appear to be silver-haired doyennes of Indian arts and letters and ambitious design school graduates, we couldn\u2019t help but wonder: Why wasn\u2019t this here before?<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Textiles, which runs the National Crafts Museum &amp; Hastkala Academy, claims to have had a north Indian food cafeteria at the decades-old institution, which we must admit, we cannot recall at all. But the new spot, which offers contemporary versions of several regional Indian dishes, paired with a wide variety of grains, such as red rice and millet, seems much more in keeping with the museum\u2019s back-to-the-roots ethos.<\/p>\n<p>We can\u2019t pretend to be the first to discover this spot. It opened in October and folks who have paid a visit have praised its version of fish and chips, amaranth-encrusted batter-fried sole with sweet potato fries.<\/p>\n<p>What we liked about the food was that there are many options that seem \u2013 amazingly \u2013 pretty healthy. What we liked about the setting was everything, including the terra-cotta horse, the passing groups of visiting school children and the All India Radio broadcasts of classical music \u2014 so retro.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\">Information and photos taken from the site: nationalcraftsmuseum.nic.in<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Address:&nbsp;National Crafts Museum &amp; Hastkala Academy, Bhairon Marg,&nbsp;Pragati Maidan, New Delhi Phone:&nbsp;078 38 960787 Working hours:&nbsp;8.00 am-10:00 pm&nbsp;All days open&nbsp;Valet Parking Also Available &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; There are some ideas that seem like a no-brainer \u2013 once someone has thought of them. Sitting at a table at the New Delhi National Crafts Museum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ind.camegone.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}