By Tasveer Hasan 2 on March 1st 2022
1, Moti Mahal Road Ashish Chaurasia is proud to belong to the hereditary profession of making paan. His great-grandfather was in this profession in Faizabad. This outlet was started by his grandfather Babu Lal Chourasia in 1957. He named it after his son Satish, and now as the third generation, he has carries the legacy […]
By Tasveer Hasan 2 on March 1st 2022
HazratganjViswanath Nair tells us that this restaurant was started in 1951 by his father KP Parameswaram Nair from Kerala in 1951. Parameswaram and two of his brothers left Kerala to seek their fortune. One left them when they reached Chennai, to sail to Singapore and then went on to emigrate to the UK. One stayed […]
By Tasveer Hasan 2 on March 1st 2022
Ashok Marg, Hazratganj The Indian Coffee House opened for business on 10 February 1945. It was set up as the Lucknow outlet of the Indian Coffee Workers Cooperative Society. Very soon, freedom fighters, politicians, artists, writers, poets, scientists… all who understood the importance of deep conversation, but mostly lacking deep pockets… made it their own. […]
By Tasveer Hasan 2 on March 1st 2022
Opposite Sahu Cinema, Hazratganj. In 1922, Chhedi Lal Vaish established a shop in Hazratganj which is today known as Chhedi Lal Ram Prasad Vaish. After him his son Ram Prasad Vaish, and then grandson Ramesh Vaish took over the shop and today this ancestral shop is mainly overseen by Akash—a scion of the fourth generation. […]
By Tasveer Hasan 2 on March 1st 2022
Hazratganj Gurjit Singh tells us: “This shop has been here since 1960. That was the year my father moved from Delhi to Lucknow at the invitation of his friends, to set up the business. We had a similar business in Delhi. The weather is an important consideration for this business. At that time, soft drinks […]
By Tasveer Hasan 2 on March 1st 2022
Shahnajaf Road, Hazratganj Managing the counter, Padmesh Sharma recounts “Our family is from Jaipur. We had come to Lucknow as tourists during a summer vacation. Our friends had suggested the trip, because they said Lucknow is the city of Nawabs and its cuisine is famous internationally. So we just came. My father noticed that people […]
By Tasveer Hasan 2 on March 1st 2022
Opposite St. Francis School, Hazratganj. Mehboob Alam, who owns this bakery tells us that his grandfather, Fazal Ahmad used to have his bakery in Hussainganj. A Christian priest, who used to teach at St. Francis School, was so fond of the bread that Fazal Ahmad baked that he prevailed upon him to open shop close […]