A speciality of Puducherry, it is a prawn curry cooked in tangy tomatoes with vinegar, fenugreek, potatoes, creamy coconut milk and mustard paste.

Indulge in chocolate ice cream with almonds and cherries and an assortment of other flavours while visiting various bakeries here.

Fresh and delicious sea food is available in many eateries across town. Prawn, crab and different kinds of fish cooked in Indian as well European styles can be enjoyed.

Wood-fried pizzas, risotto, lasagne and other authentic Italian dishes are readily available in Puducherry.

Puducherry is noted for its juicy, succulent steaks, with some of the cooks having been trained by the natives of France themselves.

A popular breakfast item throughout India and northern Sri Lanka, idlis are a type of rice or semolina cakes made by steaming a batter of de-husked fermented black lentils and rice or semolina. These soft idlis are available at stalls and restaurants across town.

A South Indian savoury breakfast food, vadas are made from different ingredients like legumes, chickpeas, green gram, black gram, pigeon pea, potatoes and sago.

Made from fermented batter of rice and black gram, a dosa is one of the most popular dishes in the Indian subcontinent and is conventionally served with sambar (hot curry), stuffing of potatoes and chutneys. In certain restaurants, the paper roast dosa is more than a meter in diametre and is meant to be shared by the whole family.

Made from a mixture of nutritious vegetables that can range from cauliflower to tomatoes and baby corn and from peas to carrots and potatoes, this is a healthy dish.

While a baguette is a thin and long loaf of bread made commonly from basic lean dough, a croissant is a flaky and buttery pastry made from layered yeast-leavened dough. Many bakeries here offer fresh croissants, muffins and breads.