OUR STORY
A house that became a haveli
Four generations, one address — and a door that has never turned a guest away.
OUR STORY
Four generations, one address — and a door that has never turned a guest away.
The Beginning
The haveli began as a family home by the pilgrim road — a place where travellers to the Ganga were fed before they were asked their names. That kitchen grew into a restaurant, the guest rooms into a hotel, and the courtyard where the family celebrated its own weddings now hosts hundreds of others.
Through every addition, one rule has held: atithi devo bhava — the guest is God.
Milestones
The family settles in Santarshah and builds the first wing of the haveli — a courtyard, a kitchen, and rooms that never stayed empty during the melas.
What began as free meals for pilgrims becomes a proper bhojanalaya — twelve tables, one tandoor, and a dal makhani people start crossing town for.
Two years of careful restoration — carved jharokhas rebuilt, the courtyard fountain revived — and the restaurant grows into its present fine-dining form.
Twenty-eight heritage rooms open upstairs, welcoming pilgrims, yatris and travellers on the Char Dham route.
The banquet wing opens with the pillared Darbar Hall and the Patram Lawn — and the haveli hosts its first thousand-guest wedding.
Restaurant, hotel and banquets — run by the fourth generation, with the same open door.
— Carved above our gate since 1962
The People
Our head cooks — some in the kitchen for thirty years — guard the recipes the haveli is known for.
The front-of-house team greets returning guests by name and their children by nickname.
Planners who have staged 350+ celebrations without missing a muhurat.
The fourth generation still lives on the property — someone from the family greets every wedding personally.
A meal, a night, a wedding — every guest becomes part of the haveli's history.