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25-577: Nizamuddin West is an upscale residential locality, conveniently located south of India gate. It is a historically busy neighbourhood in Central Delhi and has many parks and trees. It sits in the green lung of delhi, with Humayun's Tomb, Sunder Nursery and Delhi Golf club around it. The popular landmarks around it are Khan Market , Lodi Garden, Oberoi Hotel. It is well connected with Public transport. The Nizamuddin West locality located in Central Delhi

50-921: A Delikatessenabteilung (delicacy department). European delicatessens include Fauchon in Paris , Dallmayr in Munich , Julius Meinl am Graben in Vienna , Harrods and Fortnum & Mason in London, Peck in Milan , and Jelmoli in Zürich . Although U.S.-style delicatessens are also found in Europe, they appeal to the luxury market. In Russia, shops and supermarket sections approximating U.S.-style delis are called kulinariya and offer salads and main courses . Delicate meats and cheeses, cold-cut and sliced hot, are sold in

75-482: A Pashtun political and spiritual leader. Nearby is Sujan Singh Park, New Delhi's first apartment complex, built in 1945, and designed by Walter Sykes George and named after the grandfather of this enclave's most famous resident, writer Khushwant Singh . George also designed, the Ambassador Hotel next door, built in 1945 in a mix of British and Art Deco style. The building is now a heritage property and

100-613: A delicatessen or deli is a grocery that sells a selection of fine, exotic, or foreign prepared foods. Delicatessens originated in Germany (original: Delikatessen ) during the 18th century and spread to the United States in the mid-19th century. European immigrants to the United States, especially Ashkenazi Jews , popularized the delicatessen in U.S. culture beginning in the late 19th century. Today, many large retail stores like supermarkets have deli sections. Delicatessen

125-459: A bread roll), breakfast rolls ( Irish breakfast items on a bread roll), jambons , sausage rolls , and potato wedges . In the United States, a delicatessen (or deli) can be a simple retail grocery store , a sit-down restaurant, or any combination in between. Sit-down and to-go delis offer a broader, fresher menu than fast-food chains , rarely employing fryers (except for chicken) and routinely preparing sandwiches to order. Delicatessens from

150-485: A number of cultures can be found in the United States, including Italian, Greek, and Jewish, both kosher and " kosher style ". The American equivalent of a European delicatessen may be known as a gourmet food store. Retail delis in the U.S. sell fresh-sliced cold cuts and cheeses. In addition to made-to-order sandwiches, many American delicatessens offer made-to-order green salads. Prepared pasta, potato, chicken, and tuna salads, or other salads are sometimes displayed under

175-706: A separate section. The Eliseevsky food store in central Moscow, with its fin de siècle decor, is similar to a European delicatessen. From the Tsarist era, it was preserved by the Soviets as an outlet for difficult-to-obtain Russian delicacies. Delicatessens may also provide foods from other countries and cultures that are not readily available in local food stores. In Italy, the deli can be called gastronomia , negozio di specialità gastronomiche , bottega alimentare and more recently salumeria . In France it

200-624: A significant number of bureaucrats from the central government (including some MPs from both the houses), and famous people like the satirist Khushwant Singh . It is one of the greenest pockets of the city, very close to the famed Lodhi Gardens . Also in proximity are the India International Centre , the India Habitat Centre , offices of the World Wide Fund for Nature , and other organizations. Nearby

225-630: Is a German loanword which first appeared in English in the late 19th century and is the plural of Delikatesse . The German form was lent from the French délicatesse , which itself was lent from Italian delicatezza , from delicato , of which the root word is the Latin adjective delicatus , meaning "giving pleasure, delightful, pleasing". The first U.S. short version of this word, deli , came into existence probably after World War II with

250-530: Is known as a traiteur or épicerie fine . United Kingdom In the United Kingdom a delicatessen offered a variety of meats and cheeses. It also has options of various salads. There are delicatessen counters in supermarkets as well as in markets and sandwich shops. Delicatessens will make sandwichs to take away though some have an area where you can sit and eat. Items like potato salad, coleslaw, pease pudding and olives are sold by weight. There

275-890: Is named after 13th century Sufi saint, Nizamuddin Auliya , whose shrine or dargah in Urdu is situated within the area. With the opening of the Nizamuddin Metro Station on the Pink Line, the prices of the colony are expected to rise further. The colony has been home to noted writers, scholars and freedom fighters in the past. Noted Islamic scholar and peace activist, Padam Bhushan Maulana Wahiduddin Khan lives here. The first Chief Executive Councillor of Delhi and veteran freedom fighter Padma Shri Mir Mushtaq Ahmad resided here. Amarnath Vidyalankar , freedom fighter and former MP

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300-533: Is often an area that sells jars of chutneys, jams and sauces. a In Ireland , a "deli" or "deli counter" is a food counter serving pre-prepared "food to go" like sandwiches and hot snacks. This trend began in the 1990s and led to the emergence of many ready-to-eat deli products. Delis can be found at a wide variety of convenience shops, newsagents, supermarkets, petrol stations, and casual eateries throughout Ireland. Popular items served at hot deli counters include chicken fillet rolls (breaded chicken fillet on

325-693: The Canary Islands and China. Over 300 years later, it remains the largest business of its kind in Europe. The first delicatessen to appear in England was L Teroni and sons. This was opened in 1878. It is still open today but is no longer run by the same family. The first delicatessens to appear in the United States were in New York City in the early 1880s, with the first advertised use of this word occurring in early 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri upon

350-780: The North West Frontier Province (NWFP), now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , a province in Pakistan. Many such refugees had arrived in the Delhi region. It is named after Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan , also known as Dr. Khan Sahib, who was the Chief Minister of NWFP from 1945 to 1947, and who had helped many refugees to escape without harm. Khan was the elder brother of the Pashtun- and Indian-freedom activist Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan ("Frontier Gandhi"). In 2019, Khan Market

375-521: The 2010s, only a few families were living in these two-room flats. A 2011 Cushman & Wakefield survey ranked Khan Market as the world's 21st most expensive shopping street. Today it has grown to become one of the most expensive commercial real estate locations in the city. It has a wide variety of stores, including modern showrooms of most of well-known brands, silver jewellery stores, delicatessens , bookstores, paints and hardware stores, electronics, kitchenware, and fabric stores mingle with some of

400-578: The European version. In Canada, both meanings of "delicatessen" are used. Customers of European origin often use the term in a manner consistent with its original German meaning, but as in the United States, a deli can be a combined grocery store and restaurant. In Europe "delicatessen" means high-quality, expensive foods, and stores. In German-speaking countries a common synonym is Feinkost (fine food), and shops that sell it are called Feinkostläden (delicacy stores). Department stores often have

425-663: The Khan Market are popular schools such as Sardar Patel Vidyalaya and The Raghubir Singh Junior Modern School. It is serviced by the Khan Market underground station of the Delhi Metro ( Violet Line ), which lies in front of the Taj Vivanta Hotel. There are four exits of the metro station namely Gate 1, Gate 2, Gate 3 and Gate 4. The exit at Gate 4 leads to Khan Market. Delicatessen Traditionally,

450-485: The United States, by the late 20th to early 21st centuries, supermarkets, local economy stores, and fast food outlets began using the word (often abbreviated as "deli") to describe sections of their stores. The decline of the deli as an independent retail establishment was most noted in New York City: from a high in the 1930s of about 1,500 Jewish delicatessens, only 15 still existed in 2015. In most of Australia,

475-516: The better restaurants. It is also famous for food including kebabs and gol guppe (a type of popular street food) and a retail market for lighting fixtures on the ground floor. There are several bookstores in the market Khan Market is almost in the heart of the city, close to India Gate . It is surrounded by residential complexes — government owned and private — including Golf Links, Lodhi Estate, Shahjahan Road, Pandara Road, Rabindra Nagar and Sujan Singh Park. Its environs are home to

500-467: The first evidence being from 1948. The origin of the delicatessen as a grocery store is lost in time, but the path clearly spread across Western Europe as the term was borrowed by one people and language and culture after another. The German food company Dallmayr traces its history to 1700, when it became the first store to import to the German population bananas, mangoes, and plums from places such as

525-594: The hotel has been taken over by the Taj Vivanta chain. Until the 1980s, all the flats on the first floor continued to serve as homes. Neighbourhood grocery stores and middle-class shops existed in the middle lane, despite the fact it catered most up to upmarket Golf Links , Sundar Nagar , and diplomatic crowd from Chanakyapuri . Gradually, the real estate boom and expanding families of the first generation of occupants forced many families to move out. Thus these homes were sold and started being converted into shops. By

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550-593: The opening of "Sprague's Delicatessen," at first one lunchroom and eventually five popular downtown lunch establishments operating between 1884 and 1906. Early delicatessens in New York catered to the German immigrant population living there. As the German-Jewish population increased in New York City during the mid- to late 1800s, kosher delicatessens began to open; the first was founded in 1889. In

575-605: The term "delicatessen" retains its European meaning of high-quality, expensive foods and stores. Large supermarket chains often have a deli department, and independent delicatessens exist throughout the country. Both types of deli offer a variety of cured meats, sausages, pickled vegetables, dips, breads, and olives. In South Australia and Western Australia , "deli" also denotes a small convenience store or milk bar , and some businesses use "deli" as part of their business name. Traditional delicatessens also exist in these states, with "continental delicatessen" sometimes used to indicate

600-606: Was also a resident. This article related to a location in the Indian state of Delhi is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Khan Market Khan Market is a shopping district and retail market in New Delhi , India. It was established in 1951 by the newly constituted Republic of India 's Rehabilitation Ministry to give economic opportunities to refugees of the Partition of India , especially those from

625-567: Was rated as the world's 20th most expensive commercial street by Cushman & Wakefield . Established in 1951, the U-shaped, double-storey market complex originally had 154 shops and 74 flats on the first floor for shopkeepers. Many of these shops were allocated as seed land to immigrants from the North-West Frontier Province after the partition of India , Khan Market is named in honor of Khan Abdul Jabbar Khan ,

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