Gopal's

Chandigarh


This popular Punjab restaurant chain is a clean and smart diner that churns out cheap, utterly delicious platters of dosas and chhole bhature – deep-fried puris (a flat savoury dough that puffs up when deep-fried) served with spicy chickpea curry – for hungry patrons through the day. The fabulous ground-floor sweet shop has a divine selection of Indian desserts to eat in or take away.


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1. National Gallery of Portraits

0.5 MILES

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2. Chandigarh Architecture Museum

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3. Natural History Museum

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4. Government Museum & Art Gallery

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5. Rose Garden

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The most pleasant of the parks and gardens that dot Chandigarh is perhaps the Rose Garden, which contains over 1500 rose varieties.

6. Le Corbusier Centre

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7. Nek Chand Rock Garden

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8. Sukhna Lake

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