An Afternoon Exploring Shahpur Jat Village

I love exploring new places. And I think of food incessantly. If you combine the two, you can well imagine my happiness level. Today was one such happy day.

I had woken up relatively early to do piled up college work, and suddenly found myself making plans with a friend to go out and explore some new part of the city. As is always the case with me, I soon started looking at places on Zomato and after a while decided to visit Shahpur Jat. Soon, from two, we doubled up, and four of us planned to visit the urban village for lunch.

So, we reached Shahpur Jat at around 1:30, and started looking around. In the beginning, it looks like any other market of any other residential colony of Delhi. There was the usual hustle bustle of children returning from school, along with the cacophony of street vendors and shop keepers. We roamed around aimlessly for a while, and then asked for directions to go to the village which houses boutiques and cafes. 

After about 10 minutes of walking, we reached our destination, gawking at the windows of the high end boutiques and looking at different restaurants. 

First up in our list was Scribblers Cafe, which was at the first floor of a building complex and has an urban cafe look. They had both outdoors and indoors seating. And though the cafe is tiny, it looks very well kept. 

Being the ardent non-vegetarians that we are, we ordered a chicken Shepherd's pie, a grilled chicken breast in mushroom sauce and a lasagna, along with cold coffee with ice-cream and kulfi shake.

The food was pretty good. I loved the chicken in mushroom sauce the best.

Chicken Sheperd's Pie

Grilled Chicken in Mushroom Sauce
 

Lasagna

 But the portions were pretty small, and since we wanted to explore more, we kept roaming around, and finally reached the Old Town Cafe to fulfill our dessert cravings.

We had cupcakes and waffles in this quaint cafe, which had a really cute decor.

We hadn't done exploring yet, and we kept checking out the high end shops, that sell everything from scarves to wedding gowns. The last store we hit was the Wishing Chair, which is a very beautiful store that has creatively designed everyday items, such a coasters made up of keys. 

The store also holds bi-monthly craft workshops Sunday afternoons. It was pretty impressive. We oohed and aahed at the beautiful, albeit expensive items and then sat down for our evening cuppa.

We ended out journey with hot chocolate, which tasted totally unique because of cinnamon and some other secret ingredient and Earl Grey.

All in all, it was an amazing day well spent. I wouldn't like to return to Shahpur Jat again, mainly because there are so many places to visit in Delhi, but it's a must one time visit place.