Train-themed restaurant opens to serve people 24X7 at Amritsar station

Without booking a seat in a train, one can enjoy a delectable meal in the ambience of a coach as the restaurant-on-wheels, which is actually housed in a train coach, is now open 24x7.

Placed in the circulating area of the railway station, any person from the city can easily visit the railway coach restaurant to satiate his hunger with mouth-watering dishes. Open all day and night, it will benefit mostly tourists and locals who can enjoy delectable food any time.

The contract for setting up a restaurant was awarded in April 2023 to a New Delhi-based company, which beautifully spruced up a discarded train coach to set up a restaurant on wheels. It is reliably learnt that the company was given a five-year contract at an annual licence fee of ~28.30 lakh. The train-themed restaurant will serve both vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes, local dishes like kulcha and other tandoor-based eatables to attract tourists visiting the holy city.

The Railways provided a model track (showpiece) and stationed a discarded coach, number 01056, at the circulating area of the station outside platform 1-A. The coach being used as a restaurant has been beautifully decorated and steel stairs akin to the one used while boarding a train has been installed outside. Small chairs and sitting area complete with wide windows remind one of travel in a train.

Amidst the ambience of a train, the restaurant would offer tandoori food like kulchas, naan and other eatables. The city is famous for several delicacies, but the most sought-after breakfast is kulchas with crisp exterior and soft and flaky interiors, wrapped around fillings of potato, onion, cauliflower, green chillies, smoky spices and more besides puris, Chhole-bhature. The restaurant would serve multiple foot items in the aesthetically decked up coach.