Most Iconic Restaurants

Delhi Institution · Since 1942

United Coffee House

New Delhi, India · Historic Restaurant & Café

United Coffee House, an iconic historic restaurant & café in New Delhi

The story

United Coffee House opened in Connaught Place in 1942 as one of Delhi’s earliest cosmopolitan cafés. Its grand room combines chandeliers, carved wood, upholstered banquettes and ornamental detailing with a menu shaped by Indian, colonial and continental traditions.

Why United Coffee House is iconic

A theatrical yet deeply established Delhi dining room where the city’s pre-independence café culture survives in unusually formal surroundings.

Selected by Ernst Aben · Information reviewed July 2026

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