A café by day, a rooftop by night: how to spend a whole day at Azure

One of the quiet luxuries of Azure is that you do not have to choose between a café and a restaurant and a bar. We open at eleven in the morning and stay open until midnight, so a single place carries you from a slow breakfast to a late night. Here is how a full day tends to go.

Late breakfast and coffee

By day the rooftop is quiet and green. Start with all-day breakfast and a cappuccino at a calm table — it is one of the easier cafés in Panchkula for a long, unhurried morning.

A slow green afternoon

The afternoon is for lingering — a book, a long coffee, a cold drink in the shade of the garden. Because Azure sits inside Vatika Park rather than over a road, the noise of the city simply falls away.

Golden hour, then dinner and a band

As the light drops into the V of the trees, the garden turns gold and the evening begins. The kitchen and bar run right through — wood-fired pizzas, tandoori kebabs and Awadhi biryani, with a signature cocktail or a glass of wine — and most evenings a live band carries the night. It is, start to finish, made for lingering.