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ROAMING ROVER

The dining area at Dhola Maru.

The Business Centre has a boardroom within, which is is ideal for
smaller, intimate conferences for
business people. Some facilities
extended to people who book the
boardroom include refreshments,
photocopying of documents, phone
and fax connectivity as well as
access to Wi-Fi wireless internet.
Guests can also avail any of these
facilities in the business center as
well.

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a great deal of pomp and show as is of the Indian food. This fine dining
restaurant opens at 6pm and we
the norm at Rajasthani weddings.
suggest that you try to grab a window seat to get a view of Jaipur from
Restaurants
the stained glass windows. There is
Clarks Amer has three restaurants
– Durbar, Asthan and Dhola Maru. a miniature fountain in the center of
the restaurant while the light from
Asthan is a coffee shop but sometimes doubles up a buffet breakfast the stained glass chandeliers above
restaurant if fewer guests need to be will play hopscotch on your table.
Try their fiery ‘Lal Maas’ if you can
accommodated.
stomach spicy food, and the subtly
Durbar is the multi-cuisine restau- flavored ‘Paneer Kofta’.
rant that serves buffet meals and
Ta Blu is a café and an outdoor bar.
can seat 150 guests. The well-lit
restaurant has Mughal murals on the Instead of a cheery café, the indoor
walls showing royalty figures cavort- section of Ta Blu looks more like
ing and frolicking in abandon. The a yuppie royal’s boudoir given the
breakfast buffet we partook of lacked bright pink, orange and teal green
any international staples like sausag- cushions that dominate the decor,
es, baked beans in tomato sauce or a each emblazoned with tiny gold stars
bread counter with multiple opto boot.
tions. Several non-Indians appeared
The outdoor area has a mosaic-tiled
to visibly struggle with the largely
Indian fare on offer. Dhola Maru, the bar and wrought iron chairs painted
rooftop hotel, specializes in offering in bright colors. There is a marble
Rajasthani cuisine with a smattering fountain smack in the middle of this
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