Funky Monkey Café - Ajmer    Share

Delicious food. Lovely staff. Really varied menu.

This is a small roadside café located in the Mahadev Chowk Area, Near State Bank of India in Pushkar! This is a nice café and a great option for some tasty breakfast and delicious espresso coffee! The décor is basic but modern and with fast, attentive, friendly service. The taste is authentic. You should have their Fruit Muesli, Caremal Macchiato, Chocolate Nutella Banana Pancakes, Yummy Cakes and Pastries, Amazing Shakes, Freshly squeezed fruit juices like Watermelon, Pomegranate and many more! The best part of this café is the owner looks after the guests personally and is very warm and welcoming!

Good atmosphere and nice food. It's a little bit far away from the lake and the inner pushkar, but it's worth! They dont have good coffee, that's why I chose to just give 4 stars.

Pushkar is near some of the oldest geological structures in India. Microliths near Khera and Kaderi suggest the region was settled in ancient times. The Aravalli hills near it have yielded Mohanjodaro-style artifacts, but the connection is unclear as these items may have been transported later.[9] Sites near it have been sources of ancient Brahmi script inscriptions, considered pre-Ashokan near village Badli.[10] Local excavations have been a source of red ware and painted gray ware confirming ancient settlement.[9] Pushkar is mentioned in the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Puranas suggesting its significance in historical and religious tradition of Hinduism.[9][11] The town is mentioned in many texts dated to the 1st millennium.[8] These texts are not, however, historical. The earliest historical records relating to Pushkar and Ajmer are found in Islamic texts describing the raids and conquest of northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent.[9] The region finds mention in Mohammad Ghori 1192 CE conquest related records, in the defeat of Prithviraj Chauhan. Thereafter, Pushkar and nearby Ajmer find mention in historical records related to Qutub-ud-din Aibak. It was regained by Rajput Hindus under the Chauhan of Ranthambhor in 1287, but regained by Delhi Sultanate in 1301 and remained in Muslim control for many centuries.[9] Akbar made the nearby Ajmer one of the provincial capitals, and it remained a part of Mughal Empire till 1712 CE.[9] The Muslim rule brought destruction as well as cultural influences. Aurangzeb's army destroyed the Hindu temples along the lake.[1] The cattle and camel trading tradition brought merchants from Afghanistan.[12] With the collapse of Mughal Empire after Aurangzeb, Pushkar was regained by Hindus and became a part of Rathors of Marwar who rebuilt the temples and ghats.[5] Several important temples were rebuilt by the Rajputs, Marathas, Brahmans and wealthy Hindu merchants. The Brahma temple was rebuilt by Gokul Parak Oswal, the temple of Saraswati was rebuilt by the Purohit of Jodhpur, the temple of Badri Narayana was rebuilt by the Thakur of Kherwa, the temple of Varaha which had been destroyed by Jehangir was rebuilt by Maharaja Bakht Singh of Marwar, the Maratha Noble Goma Rao rebuilt the Shiva Atmateshwara Temple.[13][1] In 1801, Pushkar came under the British rule and remained a part of the British Empire till 1947.[9] In contemporary times, it has been the venue of the famed annual Pushkar Camel Fair.[3]

Funky monkey cafe is small roadside cafe with great food options. We visited the cafe for Breakfast. We ordered chocolate nutella banana pancake and fruit muselli with honey and curd. Taste was good. It offers fresh juices and we had watermelon and pomegranate juice. They have nice coffee machine.