Celebrate The Year Of The Horse With These Lunar New Year Feasts Across India

To mark the Year of the Fire Horse, restaurants in India and around the world are unveiling special menus inspired by Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival. Celebrated across more than a dozen countries, the 15-day festival begins with the new moon and ends with the Lantern Festival. Traditionally, it is a time for family gatherings, feasting, and honouring ancestors and deities.

Here’s a list of restaurants in India joining the celebrations with festive spreads.

1. Wakamé, Delhi

Wakamé opened its doors in Delhi’s Defence Colony as Chinese New Year celebrations began worldwide. Drawing inspiration from wakame, the Japanese seaweed prized across East Asia, the restaurant presents a modern Asian kitchen that blends select fusion touches with a strong focus on quality ingredients and mindful dining.

The pan-Asian menu leans toward East Asian flavours, showcasing techniques from steaming and stir-frying to robata grilling and raw preparations, alongside a few classic favourites. For the festive season, highlights include Vegetable Tempura, Chicken Karaage, Miso Ramen, Garlic Fried Rice, Chilli Oil Noodles, and soy-glazed specialities like Char Siu Pork and Teriyaki Chicken. Wakamé marks the debut venture of chef-founder Nisha Singh.

2. Yauatcha Bengaluru

At Yauatcha Bengaluru, the Lunar New Year is being celebrated with a limited-run menu that taps into the spirit of the Year of the Fire Horse without straying from the restaurant’s signature finesse.

The offerings move from delicate small plates such as steamed leek and corn rolls and shrimp-carrot dumplings, to crisp bites like golden chicken rolls. Mains feature a lot of comfort food, with dishes like stir-fried lotus root with broccoli and black pepper, beetroot fried rice with mock meat, and Indian rawas finished in black bean sauce. Desserts keep things festive, with a “Lucky Horse” creation and spicy mandarin macarons rounding off the experience.

3. KOKO Mumbai, Bengaluru And Hyderabad

Modern Asian dine-in, KOKO, is celebrating the Lunar New Year with a limited-edition festive menu inspired by themes of luck, prosperity, and longevity.

From Prosperity Dumpling paired with comforting chipotle sauce, the Emperor’s Fortune Dumpling, Fortune Feast Lamb Shank, Sacred Longevity Rice, to the Five Blessings Dessert Platter symbolic of luck, wealth, health, love, and longevity, the menu is curated to reflect on the meaning and symbolism behind the Chinese New Year.

4. OKO At The LaLiT Chandigarh

Marking the Lunar New Year, OKO at The LaLiT Chandigarh presents a specially curated Chinese New Year menu celebrating tradition, symbolism, and authentic flavours.

Each dish reflects prosperity, abundance, and renewal, which are at the core of the festival. Highlights include Aromatic Duck with Pancakes, handcrafted Chicken & Prawn Sui Mai and Prawn Har Gau, Braised Pork Belly, Steamed Sea Bass with Hong Kong Supreme Soya Sauce, and bold Szechuan Mapo Tofu. The experience concludes with Creamy Custard Bao and Coconut Caramel Custard, symbolising happiness and good fortune.

5. Feast At The Sheraton Grand Bangalore Hotel

Sheraton Grand Bangalore Hotel at Brigade Gateway is marking the Lunar New Year with a special dining showcase at Feast. The spread pays tribute to time-honoured traditions, bringing together festive dishes that reflect the spirit of the season.

Curated by Chef Sajid Patel and his team, the experience unfolds in a relaxed, inviting setting suited to intimate dinners or group gatherings. The celebrations extend to a Fire Horse–themed Lunar New Year brunch, featuring a vibrant selection of flavours inspired by symbols of prosperity and good fortune.

6. Jade At The Claridges New Delhi

A stalwart of Chinese and Cantonese dining in the capital, Jade is defined by restraint, rigour and an assured sense of craft – qualities that resonate with the Horse’s symbolism of focused, deliberate movement. Its menu reflects that discipline, spanning vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes rooted in tradition.

Delicate, hand-folded dim sum – a staple of Lunar New Year tables and a symbol of prosperity and reunion appear in steamed and broth-filled forms, alongside slow-braised meats and deftly executed wok preparations where balance and timing take precedence over embellishment. Signature dumplings, harmonious sauces and thoughtfully layered flavours complete a selection created to mark the Lunar New Year with authenticity and care.

7. Yàn Yàn At The Ritz-Carlton, Bengaluru

To welcome the Year of the Horse, the modern Chinese restaurant presents its first-ever Chinese New Year menu, a thoughtfully curated feast that pays a rich tribute to time-honoured traditions while reflecting the elegant sensibility that defines Yàn Yàn.

Guests will be greeted by a grand lion dance, a vibrant symbol of prosperity and good fortune setting an auspicious tone before the feast. The culinary journey will then begin with the warmth of Guangzhou Lung Fung Chicken Won Ton Soup, followed by Dim sum, Golden Prawn with Crispy Tofu, Lotus Stem Chicken, Longevity Noodles, Chinese Horse Gram Fried Rice, and the Mongolian Lamb Shank, amongst others that honour wishes of long life, prosperity and continuity.

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8. The Great Wall At The Leela Mumbai

At The Leela Mumbai, Chinese New Year comes alive with Feast of Fortune, a specially curated menu at The Great Wall that celebrates prosperity, renewal, and togetherness.

The menu offers a rich journey through festive dining – from indulgent appetisers and delicate dim sums to comforting soups, flavourful mains, and celebratory rice and noodle dishes, culminating in sweet festive desserts. A thoughtful balance of vegetarian and non-vegetarian options showcases fresh vegetables, seafood, poultry, and meats, all brought together with aromatic seasonings and elegant, fragrant sauces, reflecting the abundance and optimism of the Lunar New Year.

9. FOO Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, Ahmedabad And Hyderabad

FOO will treat guests with a limited-edition “Take the Reins” festive menu inspired by the dynamic spirit of the Year of the Horse.

The menu opens with a festive sushi selection featuring the Golden Prosperity Roll and the Fat Choy Chicken Roll. Further, guests can dig into the Fortune Cottage Cheese Dumpling, Harmony Prawn Dumpling, Abundance Baby Potatoes, Fragrant Festival Chicken, Celebration Asian Seabass, Three Treasure Prawns, Prosperity XO Rice, to Red Fortune Cherry Delight where each dish is a nod to festive symbolism.

10. Bağlami Mumbai

Global-cuisine restaurant and bar, Baglami, rings in the Chinese New Year with a limited-edition menu that leans into indulgence with comfort.

Think pillowy brioche bread Katsu Sando, Roasted Broccoli, Chicken Wings, a seafood affair with Butter Garlic Fish, Ramen Pasta with soft-boiled eggs and gochujang, Bucatini Chinese Spaghetti Ricotta five-spice meatballs, which bring warmth and nostalgia, and Tagliatelle tossed in squid ink prawn head oil. End your feast on a sweet note, sinking your teeth into Coconut Strawberry Panacota, Pistachio-laced Profiteroles, and French Toast dressed with fruits.

11. Golden Dragon At Taj Coromandel Chennai

Celebrate the Year of the Horse at Golden Dragon, Taj Coromandel Chennai, with a festive menu that blends tradition and Cantonese finesse. Guests can savour signature creations like Double Boiled Monkey Head Mushroom Broth, Shi Hu Lamb Soup, and delicate Shuijiao dumplings, followed by highlights such as Braised Duck with Chilli Bean, Pulled Duck Spring Rolls, Tiger Prawns in XO sauce, Lobster with Ginger Scallion, Koi Rou pork belly, and Hang Zhou Tenderloin – each dish crafted to evoke prosperity, togetherness, and the spirit of Chinese New Year.