The city is mostly famous for it’s FOOD and Ancient Mughal Architecture.
This is the place to go in India if you enjoy Spicy Non-Veg Dishes and Street Food. [Wikipedia]
Lucknow is Famous for :
1. Food
2. Cloth (Shopping)
3. Architecture
4. Historic Places
FOOD TO EAT :
1. Tunday Kawab
Tunde Ke Kabab, is a dish made out of minced meat which is popular in Lucknow, India.[1] It is part of Awadhi cuisine. It is said to incorporate 160 spices.[2] Ingredients include finely minced buffalo meat,[3][4] plain yogurt, garam masala, grated ginger, crushed garlic, ground cardamom, powdered cloves, melted ghee, dried mint, small onions cut into rings, vinegar, sugar, lime. Tunde ke kabab were introduced to the Nawab of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah.[5] Lucknow’s iconic eating joint Tunday Kababi, started in 1905, is famous for serving buffalo meat galouti kebab.[6][7]
This place defines Lucknow food in so many ways. Whoever visits this place, cannot forget the taste of these uniquely spiced kebabs for a very long time. The meat tends to dissolve in the mouth instantly and is best complimented with roomali rotis. The Chowk outlet serves only beef kebabs while the Aminabad outlet serves both mutton and beef kebabs at a very cheap price. So eat as much as you want without burning a hole in your pocket!
2. Faluda Kulfi
Prakash and Shivam are two of the most famous shops in Lucknow has been serving this dessert for the last 50 years and making lucknowites exultant, by keeping their quality and taste the finest. Prakash Faluda Kulfi shop is located in Aminabad the center of shopping. When you get tired shopping or having a dinner at Tunday Kababi then you can have this delicious dessert called Kulfi. This dessert is mainly served with ingredient called Faluda which looks like colorful noodles. Faluda is added to increase the taste of dessert and it makes sweetness of Kulfi neutral which is good for health.
Kulfi is a desi dessert and it has its own way of making but Prakash Ki Kulfi uses their own formula of making which makes their Kulfi delicious and different from other Kulfi. For making Kulfi they boil milk for three to four hours and add Kesar and other secret ingredients to make this dessert delicious and delightful. They also use their own way of freezing Kulfi. In this process they put sticky stuff of Kulfi in small containers of metal and seal them with flour (Maida). At last they keep small containers in a big container of metal and add rock salt and ice in it. Then they shake the big container for one to two hours for freezing sticky stuff of Kulfi in small container.
3. Chat (Street Food)
Basket Chaat is one of the famous chaat in Lucknow. It is one of the most famous, delicious, and delightful snack. Basically, it is aloo tikki with curd and chutney, garnished with spicy namkeen. The best basket chaat of Lucknow is near Royal Café, Hazratganj. The spice of flavours are delightful and yummy.
Rohit Chat are among the other famous Chat shop in Lucknow.
4. PAN
Lucknow is incomplete without paan. Its cuisine is incomplete without meetha paan. Paan is said to be a royalty for Lucknow. Meetha paan of Lucknow is famous in all over India. Paan is delicious and delightful flavor for Lucknowites. The most famous paan can be found at Hazratganj.
5. awadhi biryani
When it comes to Biryani, Hyderabad and Lucknow is one of the famous places for Biryani. It is made up of rice with different spices and flavours. Biryani is one of the delicious and royal dish of Lucknow served with raita or chutey, the best place to have biryani is Wahid’s Biryani at Chowk.