Top 12 places where chefs like to eat in Mumbai
- The biggest names in Indian gastronomy give us the lowdown on where to go, and what to eat in a city steeped in culinary tradition
Mumbai is a wonderful city for eating out. There is history. There is tradition. There are luxury hotels with cool international cuisine and icy air conditioning. And there is also street food, though some foreign visitors are wary.
But where do Indian chefs like to eat? We asked some of the biggest names in Indian gastronomy for their favourite places and dishes, from cheap snacks to fine gastronomy.
Here are their picks.
1. Americano
This is the new restaurant of chef Alex Sanchez, who had previously built up a large following at the Table in Mumbai. Here, in a cool bar with a high ceiling, he serves an eclectic menu of things he likes to cook. Those things include great pizzas and a quirky dish of corn “ribs”, dusted with spices and served with green garlic aioli.
“I went there twice in the opening week and the simplicity blew me away,” says Hussain Shahzad of O Pedro restaurant in Mumbai. “The corn ribs are an amazing bar snack.”
123 Nagindas Master Road, Kala Ghoda, Fort; +91 22226 47700
2. Bademiya
This street-food stall behind the Taj Mahal Palace hotel traces its origins to 1946. It’s a destination, and late at night Tulloch Road is jammed with people lining up for the seekh kebabs, many with the food laid out on their car bonnets. Popular dishes include mutton seekh kabab.
“It’s very good: It’s an institution”, says Vivek Singh, of London’s Cinnamon Club. “The kebabs are awesome”, says Surender Mohan, of London’s Jamavar. A third London-based chef, Sriram Aylur of Quilon, visits whenever he is in Mumbai.