The staff of around 50 seem to be getting worked off their feet.

'Be it an Indian, Chinese, Japanese or American, everyone loves Indian food,' head chef Saheb Singh Chauhan told IANS. 'I feel good to serve Indian food to the visitors. Here we try to serve authentic Indian food and are trying to popularize Indian cuisines among tourists.' The native of Dehradun has been working in the restaurant for around seven years.

His colleague Rajinder from Punjab, who does part of the cooking, said: 'I love to entertain people with Indian food, especially in a restaurant at this great height. It gives me a sense of being patriotic to my motherland.'

Honeymoon couple Priya and Abhijit Banerjee were pleasantly surprised to find Indian food at Jungfraujoch.

'It was a delight to eat Indian food, along with Bollywood cinema all around us. The food is great and so is the ambience,' said Priya.

Surrounded by snow-covered peaks of the Alps, Jungfraujoch is one of Europe's most attractive excursion destinations. Around 5,000 visitors travel every day to this place, known as the 'Top of Europe'.

They go up the famous funicular Jungfrau Railway, a true masterpiece of technology built between 1896 and 1912 by Swiss rail pioneer Adolf Guyer-Zeller.

(Maitreyee Boruah can be contacted at m.boruah@ians.in)