I fell in love with Indian food after my first taste of butter chicken and naan bread over twenty years ago. I was attending university in Washington DC at the time, and my friends and I would have dinner at this small Indian restaurant called Aditi along M Street at least once or twice a month. It was our favorite restaurant in DC and we would always order the same thing – butter chicken, naan bread, and basmati rice. We’d wash it down with Kingfisher beer and finish our meal with a cup of coffee, maybe an order of gulab jamun. Good times.

I didn’t know it then, but the type of Indian food I came to love actually hailed from a specific part of the country – the north. Only years later did I learn that the rich buttery curries and charred puffy flatbreads that left me with so many delicious college memories were staples of north Indian cuisine. It had become a dream of mine to enjoy authentic curry in northern India, which is why this stop at Delhi was the one I was most excited about on this three-city India food tour with A Chef’s Tour. I looked forward to eating butter chicken at its birthplace and learning more about this regional Indian cuisine that had become one of my all-time favorites.

Thanks to A Chef’s Tour and this fantastic Old Delhi Food Crawl, my dream finally came true.