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All the amazing food, made with love, at The Retreat

Breakfast & Tea

Breakfast is complimentary and includes:

 

  • Tea and filter coffee

  • Toast & Butter

  • Fruit in season

  • Home-made preserves, marmalade and local honey.

  • Cornflakes or oats.

  • Eggs to order - Our scrambled eggs on toast and omelettes are acknowledged to be a great way to start the day. We make equally good poached/fried/boiled eggs.

  • Equivalent vegetarian options - toasted cheese-and-veg sandwiches/upma/poha/aloo parathas/ whatever else is on offer)

Extras
& Specials

Specials/Add-ons: Swiss-style rosti, shakshuka, freshly baked rolls, bacon, sausages, fried tomatoes/mushrooms, fat and fluffy pancakes, elegant crepes . . . Please request these well in advance, so we can source ingredients and make our preparations.


Extra breakfast (e.g., when guests arrive very early in the morning, before check-in time) is Rs 500 per head.

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Extra servings of eggs/vegetarian goodies, glasses of milk/hot chocolate, special requests (if possible), etc. will be at an extra charge.


Morning and evening tea with cookies are complimentary, including a teatime snack (pakoras or sandwiches, prepared on advance request). Ask about our high teas (hot buttered scones, sandwiches, cake – all freshly made in our kitchen).

Lunch & Dinner

We offer home-cooked Indian and Continental cuisine, vegetarian and non-vegetarian, customised to your dietary requirements: just tell us – spiciness, allergens, vegan, gluten-friendly, diabetic, Jain and anything else – we’ll try to serve you a delicious meal where you miss out on nothing the others are enjoying! 


There are 8-10 items on the table in a vegetarian meal and 9-11 in a non-vegetarian meal. The quantities are ample, the food delicious; guests have always got up satisfied, very full and happy. The ingredients are locally sourced and as far as possible from nearby organic village farms, besides some herbs and greens, etc. from our own organic garden.

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Vegetarian: ₹ 700 per adult per meal, half for kids.

Non-Vegetarian: ₹ 850 per adult per meal, half for kids.

If you want very simple, no-frills meals, then lunch and dinner can be offered at lower rates, depending on the degree of simplicity. But in general people love to eat all we can offer.

A typical lunch includes:

  • Fresh salad with homegrown organic greens, exalted by our delicious homemade dressing (you might persuade us to share the recipe!)

  • Vegetables (1 or 2 dishes, depending on local availability of produce)

  • Pickles and/or freshly made chutney

  • Rice

  • Chapattis

  • Dal

  • Paneer dish

  • Dahi/raita

  • Dessert

A typical dinner includes:

  • Non-veg main course: pot roast, rissoles, stew, grilled or baked chicken, baked butter-lemon-thyme fish, Czech goulash, etc.
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  • Veg main course: our signature cheese cutlets, soya/chickpea kebabs, vegetarian goulash, mushroom quiche, vegetable pie, etc.

  • Gravy or sauce to accompany it, if required

  • Potato dish/macaroni/dumplings

  • Vegetables (our generous herb-marinated grilled veggies are a hit)

  • Soup (made at home, flavoured with herbs from the garden)

  • Fresh, homemade bread (white/whole wheat). We bake specially crafted multigrain-multiseed bread on request, @ Rs 250 a loaf (enough for 4-6 persons)

  • Butter/special home-made spread

  • Home-made pickles/relishDessert

What's Special?

Italian meal

Italian dinner

Veg/non-veg thin-crust pizzas made from scratch, veg/non-veg side dish, soup, salad, pasta, home-baked bread, butter/spread, dessert, tea/coffee 

Baked fish meal

Baked fish dinner

Whole baked fish marinated in butter, lemon and home-grown organic herbs;  vegetables; potatoes; soup, salad, home-baked bread, butter/spread; dessert; tea/coffee

Roast chicken

Roast chicken dinner

Whole roast stuffed chicken, marinated in garlic, home-grown organic herbs, lemon and butter, with apricot or honey glaze; sauce/gravy; vegetables; potatoes; soup, salad, home-baked bread, butter/spread; dessert; tea/coffee

There's more...

bonfire barbeque

Barbecue dinner with bonfire

₹1000 per adult, half for kids

Picnic and snacks

Picnic lunch

₹400 per adult, half for kids

tea time snacks

High tea - freshly home-baked scones, cake, sandwiches & biscuits

 â‚¹600 per adult, half for kids

Did someone say "Dessert"?!

Chocolate pudding

Variety of Desserts

Tarts, pies, cheesecake, cakes, chocolate mousse, panna cotta, fresh fruit salads and compotes, fruit-and-custard, and much more to make you feel very, very wicked and very, very happy. 

the host and chef

Paddy - The Dessert Specialist

Choice of what is made depends largely on the dessert chef (i.e. your host, Paddy) and comes as a pleasant surprise at the end of the meal.

Hungry yet?

There's more where that came from. Come, stay with us and enjoy all that, and more...

Address

The Retreat, Jones Estate,

Bhimtal - 263136,
Uttarakhand, India

Phone

+91 81710 31968

Email

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@theretreatbhimtal

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