Top 10 restaurants in Auroville, India

When you are far away from home, you miss certain things. Auroville, in the middle of the eastern world, is full of people from the western world. As rice is the most common food in Asia, Europeans and Americans hardly find their favourites: bread and good cake. Fortunately Auroville is not a blank spot on the culinary map, as it has the most delightful bakery in the whole area. Here your cravings for all kinds of bread and pastry can be fulfilled; sweet dreams come true. But how did it all start?<br><br>Meanwhile, in the main bakery, the first non-Aurovilian workers were employed. They also had to learn from zero. The working circumstances were bad. One oven under a keet roof, no walls, wooden fences, a frame for a second oven, but the metal parts had to be shared. And, of course, termites and rats. "Professionals shook their heads. We had to move the bread up to 3 times from oven to oven, from here to there. A wonder it was eatable", says Otto.<br><br>Together with Jean-Denis he kept the operation going, and with the increasing income from cookies and biscuits plus a loan from Aurelec they were able to build a new Auroville Bakery in Douceur, where it is still situated.

Tucked away in the Auroville forest, perfectly located next to a boutique hotel, the lovely Afsanah Guest House, Naturellement Garden Cafe has a beautiful and peaceful atmosphere with garden, court yard and roof Seating. With a mostly Mediterranean cuisine, there are also dishes from other parts of the world. Swedish Martina who runs the Garden Cafe, and her italian husband, loves to travel and get inspiration. In the restaurant-kitchen, only the very best and carefully selected ingredients are used, organic whenever available, with plenty of fresh produce from Auroville; milk, cheese, bread, eggs, organic fruit and vegetables, herbs and greens directly from our own kitchen garden. Add to that extra virgin olive oil, Kalamata olives, quinoa and much more... and everything made in-house, from mascarpone to pasta, grissini and foccacia! The vegetarian restaurant put importance on the health aspects of food. The use of refind oils, (normal cooking oils) has been replaced with coldpressed oils, home-made ghee and butter. With its relaxed atmosphere, a variety of good magazines, free Wi-Fi and a children&apos;s area, the Garden Cafe is perfect whether you are on your own, having a working lunch or a family outing. Naturellement range of gourmet products are for sale at the reception

Set up in the forest of Sve Dame, Auroville - a beautiful combination of a vegetarian and vegan Mediterranean restaurant and an Arts and crafts shops.

ZUKA (earlier known as Choco-la) is Pondicherry 1st and exclusive chocolates and chocolate desserts boutique. Here&apos;s a desserts corner that you may find anything and everything to do with chocolate. All chocolate raw materials are sourced from Belgium and France and final products created in Pondicherry. Apart from over 200 chocolate based desserts, the chocolaterie also constantly creates chocolate montages and other interesting ideas through chocolate. If you walk in to ZUKA, look up at the ceiling to find over 800 miniature chocolate butterflies created using chocolate. Some of the most interesting creatives are Chocolate footballs, Cricket kits (the cricket bat was presented to Indian Cricket Captain M.S.Dhoni), 12Ft long Vintage Chocolate Train, 2 Mtr tall Chocolate Statue of Liberty and lots more.. ZUKA, has won many accolades including BBC good Food Magazine&apos;s as India&apos;s No.1 Chocolate Boutique in terms of quality. ZUKA has professionally trained chefs by French team of Chocolates and Desserts Chefs. We at ZUKA, would love to serve you and look forward to your visit.

We&apos;re a lovingly run, family-owned restaurant, situated in Kuilapalayam, right near the heart of Auroville, in sunny South India. We&apos;ve drawn our inspiration from the shores of Greece but we bring you flavours from all over the world. Healthy, home-style cooking is our passion and joy and we serve it all up in a relaxed and comfortable setting, with a smile.

We are located in the Visitors Center area of Auroville,we turned a ship container into a coffee shop,plus build a Terrace and have a garden space. Is a quiet corner in the evenings and a highly in demand during the day. We bake our own cakes and cookies baked with organic flour from Rajasthan also we have natural ice creams, original recipes and a wide range of brewing specialty Indian coffee coming from southern indian states , roasted directly from Marc&apos;s Coffees. We have vegan and gluten free savories .

Welcome to Marc&apos;s café , Roast & Taste, wonderland for coffee lovers. Run by a team of passionate, dedicated and cheerful people, we have built a reputation for taking coffee "seriously". We carefully source our beans only at at selected estates in South India, and roast them in small batches, right here, at the café to ensure freshness and unique coffee experience. Buying beans? We will grind them freshly to exactly suit your brewing method. Enjoy the experience!