The Spice Route

Asian restaurant · Connaught Place

The Spice Route

Asian restaurant · Connaught Place

The Imperial, Janpath Lane, Connaught Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110001, India

Highlights

Visually stunning South East Asian restaurant with exotic spices

The Imperial, Janpath Lane, Connaught Place, New Delhi, Delhi 110001, India Get directions

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@imperialdelhi

₹2,000+ · Menu

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@afar

"Deep Colors Meet Exotic Spices Spice Route is a heavenly experience where deep colors meet exotic spices. Located in the grand Imperial Hotel, I found the restaurant to be one of the most visually stunning places I’ve ever seen. Restaurants in 5-star hotels are generally known to display lavish and extravagant decor, but this restaurant is on a whole new level. It feels as if you have walked into a dark forest with rich gold branches and heavenly waterfalls, and a pervasive aroma of mysterious spices to match. It’s an escape into nature. And it’s not as if the stunning decor is trying to compensate for the poor quality of food. The food is absolutely scrumptious, offering food from all the places that fell under the ancient spice route, from the Malabar Coast of Kerala to the shores of Thailand. I think it’s one of the very few restaurants in Delhi that has amazing Keralan food. The restaurant is really romantic, making it a perfect place for a date. It is very upscale and they are quite serious about implementing a strict dress code. It’s even rated as one of the top restaurants by Condé Nast Traveler. It’s not just a restaurant, it’s an experience!"

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c2u

Google

A great experience as always. Interiors are overwhelming - you can keep admiring them. Service is great. Staff is attentive and polite. The menu is varied but a bit limited. The cocktails are good. Whisky sour was nice. The mango salad was ok. The prawn starter was also ok. As were the noodles.

jaskaran singh

Google

A sheer extravagance for senses and food. We went there for birthday celebration. The first thing you notice as you enter the imperial is sheer opulence and sense of luxury. The resturant is one of many inside the hotel offering cuisine across the world. The resturant is themed asian history with walls depicting painting from central asia. Food menu is well curated with something for everyone. We ordered chicken puffs and kerala side prawans as appetizers. The puffs were just average however prawns were amazing. Next on table was the roasted duck leg, the meat was well cooked and glazed however the salad serverd with it was too salty which spoilt the taste, chicken noodles were amazing and must try. The staff was kind enough to serve us with mango chia pudding when we complained about the duck dish. Over all visit here for sheer sense of royalty and luxury, however food can be a hit and miss.

shyamant raj hazarika

Google

Wonderful food, magical ambience, and an experience well worth the splurge. The Spice Route at The Imperial is unforgettable.

Dr SATYAN NANDA

Google

Only good for Instagram...the taste lacks depth...Ordered Malabar chicken curry, a pale shadow of the original dish, lacking distinctive flavors...staff needs to be more accommodating...request of sliced onion and lemon wedges should not take 30 mins esp when the kitchen is not too busy....my recommendation to the owners would be to remove the South Indian curries option from the menu if you can't justify the taste and if a request of lemon/onion slices to make it more palatable would be frowned upon by your staff!!

Tirthankar Ghosh

Google

Very disappointed. We went on my birthday 28.8.25 for the set menu at Spice route. The under roasted cassava chips were served with a red coloured’kashondi’ sauce! The puffs were soggy. The main course was worse. My vegetarian coconut based Malabar curry had one piece of broccoli and zucchini but 8 pieces of carrots!! Five star dining?? The tomato base had paste and hardly any coconut flavours. The banana cake was over powered with coconut oil I guess. Overall their set menu had many expectations. When I complained about the veggies I was told they would put me in the kitchen next time! How snooty can Imperial get.

David

Google

Very beautiful in interior and good service. However 2 out of 4 people from us got food poisoning (those who had prawns and minced chicken, the others had veg and were ok). A warning sign should have been that the prawns tasted very fishy…

Raffaele Tufano

Google

A wonderful dining experience, the restaurant is located inside the Imperial hotel, delicious Thai food and stunning antique and authentic decorations representing the journey of life. You get the dining area passing trough 16th century pillars which represent the beginning of our journey, the space between the pillars is for one person to remind us that we come alone in this world .. there is family area, love, fortune.. and end of our days where our ancestors are looking and waiting for us. The food was spectacular! Highly recommend for business, romantic and special events.

M G

Google

Embarrassingly terrible food. I spent 8K for our dinner and the two curries we ordered came with the same gravies, but just different meats. I say it’s embarrassing because the interior is gorgeous and service is good as well, but the main point is to have good food. It was flavorless. I’d even go to the lengths of saying it’s dishonest to serve to food like this at such high prices.