C-Scheme · Jaipur

Coffee, brewed
behind the lattice.

A café built into the bones of an old Jaipur haveli — filter coffee and Rajasthani plates, served under a hand-carved jharokha window.

Jharokha Café haveli courtyard with dining tables and carved facade
Table by the window — the room's best seat
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Est. in the Pink City

Not a chain.
Not a trend.

Jharokha Café sits inside a restored haveli two lanes off the main bazaar, where thick sandstone walls keep the Rajasthan heat out and the coffee warm. We roast in small batches, source vegetables from the same mandi our grandmothers did, and serve everything on brass and blue pottery.

The name comes from the window above our corner table — the same style of carved overhang you'll see across the old city, built for looking out without being seen. It felt right for a café: a quiet place to watch Jaipur go by.

Haveli courtyard with pillars and arches
The Building

Two hundred years of sandstone, one espresso machine.

The haveli was built for a cloth merchant's family in the 1820s. We kept the original jaali screens, the courtyard well, and the jharokha — and fit a kitchen where the stables used to be.

Every table sits under a different window pattern; no two are cut the same. Ask for the courtyard if you want sun, or the jharokha corner if you'd rather watch the street.

1820s
Original haveli built
32
Seats, indoor & courtyard
7am–10pm
Open daily
Visit

Find the window.

14 Panch Batti Lane, off M.I. Road

C-Scheme, Jaipur, Rajasthan 302001

+91 95290 01756

Mon – Fri7:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Saturday7:00 AM – 11:00 PM
Sunday8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
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