Moti Mahal (restaurant)

Moti Mahal is a pre-partition British Indian restaurant from Peshawar. It was named after Moti Mahal cinema nearby. After partition the owners left the restaurant to its employees and moved to India. Still a running business, Peshawar's Moti Mahal still serves the decades old Butter Chicken. After moving to India, the ex-owners opened a new restaurant under the same name. It became a restaurant chain in Delhi, India.Moti Mahal was founded by Kundan Lal Gujral, Kundan Lal Jaggi and Thakur Das Magu as one of the first restaurants to introduce North Indian cuisine to the rest of the world such as tandoori chicken, paneer makhani, dal makhani, and Chicken Makhni, famously known as butter chicken.

Internationally, the franchise has restaurants in Bahrain, and the UAE now.

Moti Mahal in Spain was not related to the founders and is now permanently closed.