A seven-generation Delhi jewellery house tracing its lineage to the walled city of Shahjahanabad, Shri Ram Hari Ram is known for polki, gold and diamond bridal jewellery. Its flagship showroom in Saket offers personalised appointments, custom design and upgrading services.
Whisky and cigar lounge at The Leela Palace New Delhi in Chanakyapuri, with Chesterfield chairs, a fireplace and rare first-edition books alongside an extensive single-malt and cigar list; ranked among India's 30 Best Bars for five consecutive years.
Best for Rare malts, floor-to-ceiling books
The Library is a whisky and cigar lounge known for its book-lined, fireplace-and-Chesterfield-chair setting, an extensive collection of rare single malts, and a curated cigar and cocktail list. It has been recognised among India's '30 Best Bars' for five consecutive years. Based on independently sourced hotel dining directories, this venue is located at The Leela Palace New Delhi in Chanakyapuri, not at Le Meridien New Delhi. The lounge enforces a minimum age policy of 25 for patrons.
Since Dorabjee Patell took over the business from the British in 1911, this family-run chain has grown into a Pune supermarket chain spanning locations in Camp, Viman Nagar, NIBM, and other neighborhoods. Dorabjee's stocks everything from imported wines and cheeses to fresh seafood and its own bakery counter, with a home delivery app for online orders.
Chithras makes homemade Coorg wines in around thirty varieties, from ginger and rose to passion fruit, alongside organic coffee, forest honey, chocolates, jams and pickles. The family runs outlets across Kadanga, Madikeri, Kushalnagar and Thithimathi in Kodagu and ships its wines and preserves through its own site.
Best for Around thirty homemade Coorg wine varieties plus estate coffee, honey and pickles
Trading as Shanthi Coffee Works on College Road in Madikeri, Coorg Origin has graded and roasted plantation coffee as a family business since 1970. It uses only graded plantation beans and also sells Coorg spices, honey and homemade wine.
Best for Plantation coffee graded and roasted since 1970
Coorg Origin trades under the name Shanthi Coffee Works, a family coffee business on College Road in Madikeri that has been grading and roasting plantation coffee since 1970 — more than five decades before the website that now sells it existed. The company describes the operation as a 'family legacy and expertise in the field of Coffee Manufacturing,' built on sourcing only graded plantation coffee beans grown in Coorg's own estates rather than blending in outside stock. Alongside coffee, the shop sells Coorg spices selected and processed to preserve their natural flavour, honey the company describes as pure and additive-free, and homemade wine made to a regional recipe. The emphasis throughout is on continuity with the original 1970s grading-and-roasting operation rather than reinvention: the business frames its current online store as an extension of the same family trade rather than a new venture layered on top of it. It ships its coffee and other Kodagu produce from its Madikeri premises near Ram Mandir, giving buyers outside Coorg direct access to a coffee house whose roasting practice predates India's specialty-coffee movement by a generation.
Dev's Coorg Spices is a Hudikeri store near Virajpet, started in 2021 by Bollimada Sachin, selling homemade wines, spices, pickles, honey and coffee powder. The shop takes orders online and delivers its Kodagu produce with a door-to-door service.
Best for Coorg spices, homemade wine, pickles and door-to-door delivery
Dev's Coorg Spices is a family-run general store in Hudikeri Belloor, near Virajpet, started in 2021 by Bollimada Sachin, known locally as Binu, to bring Kodagu produce to doorsteps that had no easy access to it. What began as a door-to-door spice and grocery delivery service has grown into a wide-ranging catalogue: black pepper and other Coorg spices, homemade pickles, forest honey, coffee and tea powder, ghee and cooking oil, and homemade wine made to family recipes. Alongside the produce of the plantation belt sit more everyday staples — dairy, bread, eggs, fresh fruit and vegetables — plus regional specialties like Coorg jackfruit seeds and dry fruits sourced from Jammu & Kashmir, baked goods, personal-care items and even books, making the shop as much a neighbourhood general store as a spice specialist. Every order ships out from the shop itself with door-to-door delivery, the model the business was built on, and larger orders above ₹50,000 qualify for free delivery. It is a small operation — reachable directly by phone or email rather than through a large retail apparatus — but one that reflects how home-based Kodagu producers have moved their trade online without losing the door-to-door delivery habit that defined it before the internet.
Founded in 2021 on Jain Street in Virajpet, PSK trades wholesale and retail in Coorg black pepper, coffee powder, forest honey and homemade wine. Products are cultivated by traditional methods across Kodagu's hills and forests and shipped nationwide.
Best for Coorg pepper, filter coffee, forest honey and homemade wine
PSK Coorg Spice Traders works out of Jain Street in Virajpet, wholesaling and retailing produce it describes as 'rooted in the rich agricultural heritage of Coorg (Kodagu)' since opening in 2021. The business sources directly from pepper plantations and spice estates in the Kodagu hills, where the combination of rich soil, steady rainfall and a distinct microclimate is credited with giving the black pepper its high essential-oil content — the traders' own explanation for why slow, mountain-grown pepper differs from lowland crops. Cardamom, clove, turmeric, nutmeg, cinnamon and mustard seed round out the organic spice line, alongside Coorg coffee sold as green seed, roasted bean and filter powder (with or without chicory), unprocessed forest honey harvested naturally rather than farmed, and homemade wine made to regional recipes. Processing is kept deliberately low-tech: products are handpicked and naturally processed, the company says, specifically to avoid additives and preserve the aromatic qualities that come from slow growth at altitude. It ships nationally through its own website, positioning itself less as a large exporter than as a direct pipeline from Kodagu's estates to households elsewhere in India looking for pepper, coffee and honey without an intermediary brand in between.