Some restaurants serve food, others take your breath away. Even before glancing through the menu, it is the ambience that catches our attention, setting the tone for an unforgettable dining experience and leaving a lasting impression. If you love fine dining, then Rosso should be on your bucket list.
Tucked away inside the opulent Hotel Irada in Pune, Rosso offers a state-of-the-art gastronomical experience that would leave you lingering long after you have finished your meal. So, it isn’t a surprise that Rosso is the only Indian restaurant to earn a place on Prix Versailles’ list of the world’s most beautiful restaurants for 2026.
An award-winning visual masterpiece
For the unversed, Prix Versailles, a prestigious global architecture and design award program announced annually at UNESCO headquarters in Paris since 2015, celebrates exceptional projects that successfully merge aesthetic excellence with cultural heritage, ecological efficiency, and intelligent sustainability.
The best restaurants of the world were picked out based on their unique designs, as well as the correct implementation of colour and style that put each restaurant in perfect harmony with its environment and its menu, as per Prix Versailles Secretary General Jérôme Gouadain.
As soon as you enter Rosso, you cannot help but admire the striking cross-cultural architecture, featuring Indian and Mediterranean accents. Glossy, emerald-green marble dominates the premises, offering a stunning contrast against the rustic and polished wooden furniture and warm-hued beige and brown walls. Voluptuous Solomonic columns add an extra layer of luxury.
But perhaps one of the most stand-out elements of Rosso is its tall and large windows, overlooking the lush vineyards, delivering endless views of the grapevines as you dig into scrumptious dishes, exotic beverages and decadent desserts. The restaurant specialises in a diverse Italian cuisine, which is likely to transport you to the City of Love.
Beyond the staple creamy, handmade pastas and cheesy, Neapolitan pizzas, Rosso also serves an artisanal cheese board, grilled delicacies, juicy salads and an assortment of hand-crafted desserts like the classic tiramisu, lemon basque cheesecake, rich and dark chocolate pastry and hand-churned gelato flavours, ensuring you get a slice of Italy in every bite.
Coming to Hotel Irada, the premium accommodation is sprawled on a 66-acre working winery, encircled by a forest reserve. Guests can enjoy a 4,000-hectare Maharashtrian grassland safari, home to Indian chinkara, deer, and a host of other wildlife. There’s also a quaint hamlet named Roti, where women in vibrant saris help pick and graft vines, weaving their craft and colour into the spirit of the estate.