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Mumbai Food Guide: 10 Must-Eat Restaurants & Street Food Stalls in Mumbai
Though Mumbai can feel chaotic and crowded, there are peaceful moments to be found here. Nibble a paper cone of bhelpuri while you stroll the sands of Chowpatty Beach. Then, take a short walk to Mani Bhavan, where Mahatma Gandhi once lived, strategized, and was ultimately arrested. The markets are spirited places to bargain for spices or souvenirs. Take a guided tour of Dharavi – made famous by "Slumdog Millionaire" – for an eye-opening glimpse into what Mumbai life is like for nearly a million people.
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1. Hornby's Pavilion
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 312 reviews
Reviewed By viral06 - Surat, India
Hornby's pavilion is very good restaurant for dinner and food taste also very good. Nice facilities and services too. Good experience.
2. Lotus Cafe
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 609 reviews
Lotus Cafe, named after its beautiful Lotus pond and operational round the clock, is well known in the city for its elaborate buffet spread-an excellent blend of international cuisine.
Reviewed By Ashish G
Some hotels offer a number of cuisines from around the world but the great thing about here is they are all available. Meaning everyone can eat what they like and still sit together. There is a good range of food available and some is cooked to order such as pasta. The quality is high and the food is always enjoyable. The staff are both friendly and helpful and the view is also very good. Sometimes there is some live light background music. Very clean and well worth a visit.
3. Mostly Grills
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 408 reviews
Mostly Grills is an open-air fine dining restaurant on the roof top of The Orchid Hotel Mumbai. It has an idyllic setting with the pool on one side and a bird's eye view of the airport on the other. Mostly Grills is set in a Mexican village right out of the wild west but the cuisine is nouvelle and truly international choice of Barbeque. It is a fusion Barbeque restaurant serving new range of International delicacies.
Reviewed By Tushar S
Awesome place good ambience and a very good experience. Was there with my friends really enjoyed a lot and the dishes were recommended to us were just to die for. The service was attentive specially tushar and the manager at the place was very attentive and the view is fabulous over looking the airport runway. Thanks to everyone for making my dinner so special. Will surely come back with my family...
4. Lake View Cafe
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 518 reviews
Situated on the side of the serene Powai Lake, with a view of the Hiranandani skyline... Lake View Café presents an enviable culinary theatre featuring an extensive Asian and Indian selection with the experience accentuated by the warm and engaging ambassadors, delivering a memorable experience each time. - Currently the restaurant is under refurbishment till March 2018. Fratelli Fresh will be operational as our all day dining during the refurbishment period.
Reviewed By MANOAJKALAANI
Had been visiting this place quite often but recently the standards have slipped a bit.I am sure with the renovations team will bounce back
5. Seasonal Tastes
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 492 reviews
Reviewed By amirdean - Singapore, Singapore
Wonderful food, the best brunch mojito, responsible and eagle eye staff( rishikish, kumar managers who moves around and not congregating among themselves,on the ground chef(Chef Sagar) who checks on diners..Worth waking up to on a lazy sunday.....28Jan. Renowned Westin hospitality upkeep and exceeded...
6. Shree Thaker Bhojanalay
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 980 reviews
Reviewed By carmayogi - Mumbai, India
Now that I have moved out of India, each visit is a chance to go to my favourite restaurants again. Thaker did NOT disappoint.
It feels as though every ingredient was carefully selected to make the perfect dish. We didn't find anything that wasn't fresh or tasty. I ended up overeating to the point where I did not have breakfast the next day! Totally do not regret the weight gain. Forget EVERY.OTHER.THALI in Bombay. This is the only one.
7. Nawab Saheb
Overall Ratings
5 based on 446 reviews
Nawab Saheb serves authentic cuisine inspired from royal kitchens of India, offering an ambience perfect for dining that is stylish, elegant and homely. The unique pre-set menu offering enables service to be warm, friendly and pampering.
Reviewed By SanjayPunjabi - Mumbai, India
The Prelude:
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Nawab Saheb is the Indian fine dine restaurant of Renaissance Powai, and has been serving authentic Indian cuisine (more veering towards the Lucknowi and Awadhi side). They have recently initiated their “Mitti Ki Khushboo” festival, and we were invited to be a part of this programme.
The Program:
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Mitti Ki Khushboo is an endeavour to bring forward an experience of age old culinary practices used in ancient Indian cookery where mud or clay was an eminent part of cooking and flavouring the food. So accordingly, a humongous research has been done to uncover the secrets and bring forth a hitherto unknown facets of cooking. Various types of vessels have been adopted suited to the intended dish. You had a Mitti Ka Tandoor – a clay oven to cook meat on skewers, Balti ki Bhatti – a portable tandoor by plastering mud into a bucket, a Mitti Ka Tawa to griddle and roast, and Khurja, Matka and Deg for liquid gravies.
The Personalities:
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We were honoured with an invitation by the Executive Chef Sahil Arora, also an old friend. And we made new friends with Akshay Pandit – the Executive Sous Chef who has been there for just four months with the group, but helms the responsibility of being the second in command for ensuring smooth operations of all the five restaurants – Nawab Saheb, Fratelli Fresh, Emperor’s Court, Mumbai Express and Lake view Café. And that includes Profitability, Food Quality, Kitchen Ops, Restaurant Branding, Research, Staffing and Training.
And we were also in the company of Indian Master Chef Mohd Yunus Khan, who is an eighteen year old veteran in the industry. He has been with the group since the last five years, having worked with Holiday Inn, Le Meridien Pune, and ICG before. He was the brains behind the menu of this festival, and was eager to regale us with all the offerings.
The Platter:
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So the attempt was twin fold here – to revolutionise the cooking style by using Mitti vessels, and also to bring forth delicacies from different parts of the country.
SOJATI MUTTON KE KALERI KEBABS (5/5): This one from the famous Jodhpur city, stone pounded lamb, marinated with roasted ground spices and cooked on a tawa. Thickly aromatic, extremely succulent and wonderful meaty. A repeat, again and again.
BANJARA KALMI KEBAB (4.5/5): Chicken leg piece, marinated in yogurt and cooked in Balti ki Bhatti. An additional half point purely because unlike anywhere else, this was not a uni dimensional tangdi piece, rather this luscious meat in fact served as a pocket for tiny bits of cheese and mince inside. Giving it an additional oomph.
GHARAPUR KI Machali (4.5 / 5): Besides the name which weaves magic for me ( I am reminded of the dimpled Ayesha Dharker in Outsourced – sigh!), the Machali held it's own elan. This was a large-sized Pomfret, marinated with yellow chilli, curd and ajwain, and cooked in a Tandoor. The fish itself was lightly knifed into slices, yet being presented as a whole, such that the actual carving out of the flesh and discarding the splinters became a very convenient and non-messy affair.
BELEKERI KA JHEENGA (5/5) : These were the largest prawns I have ever seen – almost the size of a cuckoo. Coming from the lands of Belekeri in Karnataka. Char-grilled prawns – grilled to perfection so as the render them perfectly chewable. And again here the innovation factor – again these were not just prawns, rather carried a stuffing of cheese and curd within. Awesome.
GOKARNA LOBSTER (5/5): Whew. The delights never seemed to stop. These were lobster slices, marinated with cheese, chilli, ajwain, and mustard, and cooked to perfection on the tandoor. Cooking lobster is a very tricky thing, the meat is tenacious and you really don’t know when to stop, but here the art seemed to have been mastered well. The meat was supple, the flavour distinct and of course the nutrition factor added as a bonus.
KANKWARI MAAS (4/5): This one from Alwar – Lamb ribs marinated with robust spices, chilli ginger garlic, and charcoal cooked in a clay oven. The meat easily peeling off the bones kind.
The Mains equally delighted, but by then we were too sated to relish the same in entirety. So we had bite-sized portions of
JHEENGA KADHAI (thankfully not the superman jheengas of earlier – tomatoey gravy, zero spice level),
KUNNA MURGH (all the way from Pakistan, pot roasted with rooted vegetables and light spices), ADLA KI NIHARI (Lamb shanks cooked in a yakhni and flavoured with robust spices), KHURJEWALA MURGH (Another outstanding preparation – chicken cooked in a thick gravy of fresh methi and ghee. So tender, it seemed almost like koftas made of chicken mince),
PHILLAUDI Machali (Fish stewed with raw mangoes and light spices)
MATKE KI DAL ( Black dal, cooked overnight over slow fire and finished with ghee)
YAKHNI BIRYANI (Marinated lamb pieces layered with Long grained partially cooked Basmati rice, and steamed for an extended period such that the two aromas get diffused in each other. Served with Raita.
And all these, not served with your ordinary rotis. No siree. You had the special Za’atar Rotis (Middle Eastern herbs), the Khamiri (Spongy and slightly tangy), and the Taftan (Milk, yogurt, eggs, and saffron).
The Pleasure:
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Only Indian desserts. All made in-house.
Though we were left with zero bandwidth to consume anything more, the sight of the array of beautiful items was inviting.
ANJEER KATLI
DOLE KE LADDOO
AMRAKHAND
LACHHEDAR RABDI
TRIVENI BHOG
PETHA PAAN
MOONG DAL HALWA
RASMALAI
PHIRNI
MISHTI DOI
The Postlude:
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I have attended innumerable food festivals across the country, so much so that I have lost count now. But the underlying theme at every single place I have found pertains to merely a location or a cuisine. Delhi Food Festival, Korean Food Festival, Sea Food Festival, Mango Mania and so on.
But a true-blue event, where a detailed research has gone into to actually bring out the essence of the theme and not just being gimmicky, is very rare. And when that happens, it jolts you out of the blue. Not only is the food extremely drool worthy, the entire atmosphere sort of warps you in. A live ghazal singer with a mellifluous voice, belting out nuggets after nuggets, further thickens the plot. (“Aaj Jaane ki zid na karo” had never sounded more intended.). As far as Nawab Saheb is concerned, I am completely sold.
8. Seven Kitchens
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 559 reviews
Seven is a state-of-the-art theatre for food, where guests can enjoy the drama and interactive Performances by our specialty chefs. Soaked in natural light, the all day dining restaurant reflects the spirit of the seven Islands that make up Mumbai. The Palladium Hotel has changed its name to The St. Regis.
Reviewed By mehul k
First of all i would thank st. Regis for the tremendous food and a ambient atmosphere. Buffet has a vast variety from different regions of the world like Italy, Continental , Indian. Desserts were mouth watering and took heart away. Thanks alot st.Regis once again.
9. The Peshwa Pavilion
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 425 reviews
Reviewed By MUTTOOS - Gurugram (Gurgaon), India
A breakfast meal offering a wide selection of dishes : Indian & Continental spread. Juices, cereals, cakes, waffle and poori.
10. Ark Bar
Overall Ratings
5 based on 265 reviews
Distinctive elixirs, new age music and mouth-watering eats in a vibrant setting, come together to provide a spirited experience like no other.The music played at ARK is planned by a designated music stylist, which ranges from (EDM, commercial, Trance) to new age and current music. The central portion of the bar also converts to a dance floor as the evening progresses.
Reviewed By Niraj S
Ambience here is awesome. Music is too good. Drinks are not too strong, may be they are kanjoos. Best place for party hunters
