LUCKNOW: Exploring Chowk's Heritage & Food on a Walking Tour
I was in Lucknow for the first time earlier this month and wanted to explore the best of its culture, heritage and food. So I took a walking tour with Tornos India. Watch the vlog to find out how the experience was!
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Culinary Walk
Tornos is an experiential tour company that organises Culinary Walk in Lucknow. This evening walking tour is rated as India's Best Food Walk by Conde Nast Traveller and National Geographic, while it is recommended by Lonely Planet as a 'Must Do' in Lucknow. Visit our websites : tornosindia.com & lucknowwalks.com to book this and many more curated walking tours to suit your interest.
Victorian Walk by Tornos
In this video we show you the glimpses of Tornos' Victorian Walk in Lucknow. This walk is primarily focused on the British Raj in Lucknow, life of the Britsh and their lifestyle. Tornos’ Victorian Walk revolves around a market place that is often associated with the anglicized life of Lucknow and offers a unique cultural blend.
Tornos offers some great well researched walks. Including a Heritage Walk and a Culinary Walk that are recommended by Conde Nast Traveller and Trip Advisor and figure among the top walks of India. To know more about these and other experiential products, do log on to our website : or e-mail us on : info@tornosindia.com
Court of Awadh - Dastarkhwan (at Taj in Lucknow) by TORNOS
TORNOS organises such cultural events in Lucknow. This is an Awadhi Evening that can be arranged at any hotel on request. Apart from this, we also offer Family Meal options under our mutliple range of products, 'Dine with The Maharaja' and 'Dine with The Nawab' in Lucknow. Also check out our Culinary Walk and Coquina, which are great learning experiences. All this and more on our website: tornosindia.com
Tornos' Knowledge Evening - 2018, London
Tornos is an experiential tour company that organises niche tours in India. Every year it organises knowledge evening with an aim to reach destination and product knowledge to international audience. This is an abstract video (40 min video of 3 hours event) of the event organised in London on 5th July 2018 at Taj Hotel - St James' Court. This video has a partial (edited) presentation made by Prateek Hira (CEO - Tornos) on the Topic - 'Lucknow an overlooked destination'.
Lucknow - a documentary (from TORNOS' Collection)
This documentary is from the collection of The Tornos Studio ( tornosindia.com ). It takes you through the history of this fabled city, Lucknow. This and many such films are available for viewing at The Tornos Studio over a cup of afternoon tea (By Appointment). Call us on +91-522-2349472 / 2346965 / 4009654 E-mail us on: info@tornosindia.com
Tornos' Service Orientation Series : Victorian Walk
In this series of videos (Tornos' Service Orientation Series), we show you the standard parameters of our services and products that make our services stand apart, while our guests often find them quite valuable and feel pampered when being handled by us. Also you will find a few videos in this series to be an explanation or orientation of the numerous services, products and experiential tours that we operate.
In this video we show you the glimpses of Tornos' Victorian Walk in Lucknow. This walk is primarily focused on the British Raj in Lucknow, life of the Britsh and their lifestyle. Tornos’ Victorian Walk revolves around a market place that is often associated with the anglicized life of Lucknow and offers a unique cultural blend.
Tornos offers some great well researched walks. Including a Heritage Walk and a Culinary Walk that are recommended by Conde Nast Traveller and Trip Advisor and figure among the top walks of India. To know more about these and other experiential products, do log on to our website : or e-mail us on : info@tornosindia.com
'Beyond Kebab' Walk by Tornos
And you thought Lucknow is only about kebabs…
Lucknow is one city that is home to diversity, where not only religions meet and live together in utmost harmony, but also appreciate each other’s diverse cuisines, how else would one explain the existence of heritage halwais like Net Ram and Madhurima alongside Tundey Kebabi and Bismillah Biryani in Lucknow. This coexistence or rather the confluence of diverse cultures and traditions is actually called ‘Ganga-Jamuni Tehzib’.
Vegetarian cuisine in Lucknow is as rich as its non-vegetarian fare and held equally in high regard for its recipes and age-old traditions. Halwais in Lucknow have had their own loyal fan list and generations have been eating there for ages and vow that nothing has changed ever since.
On this two hours walking tour we take you to the traditional eateries where the oldest dates back to 1825, show you some traditional shops that specialise in sun-dried lentil-nuggets and accompaniments like papadums, pickles, preserves, chutneys for ages and still rule the dinner tables at Lucknow homes. Taste not only the tangy chaat and the coolest kulfi on this tour but also end it with a pan (beetle-leaf preparation) that is nothing short of a dessert.
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Revisiting Lucknow of 1857-58
On this very exclusive curated tour – ‘Revisiting Lucknow of 1857-58’, we take you through the routes followed by Havelock, Outram and Campbell. We visit the areas that were in focus during the siege of Lucknow and also understand, how this siege progressed to a conclusive end.
'Taste of Labour' by Tornos
“For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation”. – Paracelsus
How very true is the hard earned daily bread of a labourer who works at construction sites, erects huge buildings, makes new roads and builds new India all day. After a day’s hard work and toiling all day it is a humble cuisine that labourers cook for themselves every evening with limited means at their disposal but with great heart and full soul.
We at Tornos have learnt to appreciate this unique cuisine that we call, ‘The taste of Labour’, very basic but a hearty meal that tastes quite different due to labour being one of its ingredients. We will take you to a construction site and to experience the dinner preparation just after the day’s labour. Learn step by step cooking, from lighting the fire to plating the meal. Each step is unbelievable, style of lighting fire, pounding of garlic with the back of a steel glass, or for that matter bread being rolled with a rolling pin all are so unique to labourers’ cuisine.
Believe us, there is absolutely no parallel in the style of cooking and the taste of food cooked by the labourers on the roadside at the construction sites or their makeshift abode on the streets.
MOUTH-WATERNG Indian Street Food in LUCKNOW - Best KEBABS!
I never knew Lucknow was home to some of the best Indian street food until the day I arrived. I was BLOWN AWAY by the food culture here and how much history plays its part in the food.
From many differing types of bread, and the unique way they are made with many people at one bread station, to the mouth-watering kebabs, the history of the local kebab shops and the water buffalo, chicken and mutton used - to visiting the Lucknow's oldest restaurants - doing a food tour with Tornos India was one of my favourite activities on this trip to India!
This is India Vlog 2 from my recent trip with Lonely Planet India and Uttar Pradesh Tourism. One more India vlog from Kumbh mela 2019 to follow shortly!
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Tornos' Service Orientation Series : Heritage Walk
In this series of videos (Tornos' Service Orientation Series), we show you the standard parameters of our services and products that make our services stand apart, while our guests often find them quite valuable and feel pampered when being handled by us. Also you will find a few videos in this series to be an explanation or orientation of the numerous services, products and experiential tours that we operate.
In this video we show you the glimpses of Tornos' Heritage Walk in Lucknow. This walk is primarily focused on the soft culture of the city rather than concrete structures. We take you across a lane to show you the living culture, craft and even a bit of cuisine (though we have a focused food walk :
Oriental Walk by TORNOS
This walking tour is set in the heritage zone of Lucknow and covers all major Nawabi era monuments plus a few hidden gems that include ruins or areas that complete the story of Lucknow as the capital of Awadh.
This Walking Tour is indeed a revealing experience to understand and explore the area that surely can not be understood and explored in detail with the help of a specialist walk leader.
Glimpses of Lucknow
This video is a great presentation video to showcase Lucknow. It is not a heavy dose of history, but a light one in terms of appreciating the city, its skyline, monuments et al. It can be played for orientation of the city and showcasing the city at its best during corporate and MICE presentations.
TORNOS' Family Meal with an Aristocratic Family - Dastarkhwan
This is a product of Tornos, Dastarkhwan - Family Meal. Interaction with the Nawab, Qawali by Mirasins(non-commercial, lady family singers), a short cooking demonstration and lunch or dinner. Qawali by Mirasins is a dying art form in Awadh. Mirasins referrers to only a few ladies with just a single musical instrument or at times with a maximum of two along with rhythmic clapping would sing at the family functions, such as weddings, birthdays and other joyous events. There are only a few Mirasins left now in Lucknow due to lack of patronage and loss of an age old tradition. Tornos by way of its patronage to this and many other dying arts invites Mirasins over for such events, so that they earn a livelihood in these difficult times and lead a respectable life. On the other hand tourists get a chance to experience Lucknow of yore in all its true forms.
For details on this and many other products, we welcome you to our website : tornosindia.com .
Kotwara Insight by Tornos
This video was shot casually during a conversation between Muzaffar Ali and Team Tornos. It was during a training sessions that we had with him, just before launching our curated product, Kotwara Insight. It came out so well, except of course its abrupt ending, that we thought to upload it as a product introduction. What better than Muzaffar Ali himself talking about the product himself. Details of this product may be seen and understood at : or send us an e-mail on: info@tornosindia.com to book your visit.
Fell free to check out our array of very exclusive products on our website : tornosindia.com
Heritage Walk
Lucknow is not just any other city, but a chapter that unfolds itself each time one visits this epicenter of culture. At Tornos we have exclusively designed a Heritage Walk, discovering the lanes and the bylanes of Chowk. On this walking tour we explore the unexplored and explain the inexplicable. Understand how vast a history, this city of superlatives holds. History in Lucknow, stretches beyond the concrete walls of its monuments, spreads into the lanes of Lucknow and has many more nuances that can only be understood and appreciated in the lanes and bylanes of Chowk.
Tornos has been discovering and rediscovering this city since its own inception in 1994 and every time we design or redesign our products, we stumble upon a new piece of history that we wish to share with our guests. Heritage Walk is our endeavour of sharing our discoveries and knowledge that make Lucknow look so new and fresh every time. Our expert Walk Leaders take you into the bygone era of this city that is a world unto itself. Visit tornosindia.com for more information and book this walking tour.
Exceptional Ayodhya by TORNOS
Ayodhya is just two hours' drive from Lucknow with an excellent road connection. It indeed is a great excursion destination that was taken up by Tornos in 2014 and then on we were able to successfully project it, with a changed perception and re-branding, sending about 100 guests in 2015 alone, who came back quite happy and enjoyed their visit to this temple city. Our Ayodhya-centered products and the destination itself figured in the Lonely Planet – 2016 for the first time.
On 10th April 2016 TORNOS organised a session on Ayodhya in Lucknow to celebrate its product success, to plug-in existing holes and to bridge the gap between Lucknow and Ayodhya, that existed due to many controversial tags that got connected to Ayodhya after 1990s. This event-video is full recording of the event and a great way to learn about Ayodhya and understand it as a secular destination, which actually it is. For more on Ayodhya, log on to our website : tornosindia.com
Tornos' Mango Farm-Home (slide presentation)
Set in 1000 acres of mango plantation, this is a Mango Farm-Home. We do not refer it as a Farm House, as that gives a very impersonal feeling. A huge concrete bungalow makes living within a huge farm quite a luxury, yet allows you to be in the lap of nature.
You have an opportunity to stay for 2 nights and enjoy the lap of pure nature or visit this on a day trip from Lucknow and return after dinner back to the main city. Mango season (June/July) would of course be a great time, but then this place is a bliss all through.
Nishaan-E-Lucknow
This documentary tries to trace the origin of the Fish in the history and culture of Awadh.
Diving deep into anecdotes,old monuments, royal descendants,historians and hard core Lucknow'ites, this film tries to retrieve precious pearls of information.
The mystery behind the presence of the Fish motif on diverse old architecture and even the state government's insignia is thus revealed.