Agra Street Food Guide: Petha, Bedai and Mughlai Classics

Agra feeds Mughal-era recipes to a modern city. Skip the hotel buffet for one meal and you will remember the food as much as the marble.

Breakfast: bedai and jalebi A crisp, spiced lentil-stuffed puri served with aloo sabzi and a hot jalebi. Deviram in Sadar and the old-city stalls in Rawatpara serve it from about 7 am until it runs out — usually by 11 am.

The sweet Agra is famous for: petha Ash-gourd candy, translucent and syrupy. Try **angoori petha** (small, juicy), **kesar petha** (saffron) and **paan petha**. Panchhi Petha in Sadar Bazaar and Noori Gate are the reliable names. It travels well for a week, so buy on your last day.

Mughlai dinner Seekh kebabs, galouti, mutton korma and biryani in the Taj Ganj and Sadar belt. Vegetarians should look for **Mughlai paneer**, dal Agra-style and tandoori rotis at Dasaprakash or the pure-veg kitchens near Fatehabad Road.

Snacks worth the detour - **Dalmoth** — Agra''s spiced lentil mix, sold by weight. - **Mughlai paratha** and **Bhalla** at Sadar Bazaar in the evening. - **Kulfi falooda** in Kinari Bazaar after monument hours.

Eating safely without missing out

• Choose stalls with a queue and high turnover — the food never sits.
• Eat freshly fried and freshly cooked, avoid pre-cut fruit and salads.
• Drink sealed bottled water; check the seal before you open it.
• Say kam mirchi for less chilli; most stalls will make a fresh batch.

Doing it by taxi

Agra''s food is spread across Sadar Bazaar, Kinari Bazaar and Taj Ganj — 8 to 12 km apart with narrow lanes and no parking. An hourly rental cab with a driver who waits at the mouth of each lane is the sane way to do a food crawl, especially after dark.

Book an evening hourly rental taxi in Agra with TaxiInAgra and your driver will park close, wait, and take you home with your petha boxes intact.