Sindhi food, but also the sour, sweet, spicy, savoury alchemy of chaat. Made memorable by its finely-embellished Gothic architecture, 42 panels of delicate stained glass, and a grand altar, it was opened to the public in 1858. To your left, the palimpsestic Gothic Maharashtra State Police Headquarters, whose history unravels to reveal a stint as the Royal Alfred Sailors Home, which was pitched on Mendham’s Point, the oldest English cemetery in Mumbai. Wedge your way through the tourists to reach the Prince of Wales museum, now CSMVS, the glorious Indo-Saracenic building prefaced by a crescent of lawns. A full stomach is a beautiful thing.At the close of Merewether Road is the sea-facing, rooftop Cafe Marina, best approached as a bar, offering snacks designed to abet drinking. Born in 1952, KP serves an underrepresented sliver of Indian cooking i. Then pootle over to what may possibly be my favourite street in Mumbai, Wodehouse Road (now Nathalal Parikh Marg).com. Or you could choose to go further afield with Sea Lounge’s extended high tea, which includes a bacchanal of Indian, Western, and South East Asian dishes. Outside, a clot of belching cars, dust-dried streets and crowds.
Or perhaps a marriage of the two, a swiftly-fried egg cooked on a bed of kheema.But at the end, there is always Bademiya.Just before the sun scalds the skies at noon, walk down Colaba Causeway to Kailash Parbat. Although it contains many small hotels and guest houses, the area still retains a welcome calm from the chaos on the main roads,” Sharada Dwivedi and Rahul Mehrotra write glowingly, in Fort Walks.e.. Its soaring success usually means waiting in lines that spiral into the street, but your patience is rewarded with plates of satisfying kebabs — tongues of chicken and mutton, smothered by spice, skewered on a naked flame, and served with coils of onion and lemon.Across the road is Regal Cinema, an art deco masterpiece designed by Charles Stevens, and diagonally across is Sahakari Bhandar, once the Majestic Hotel designed by the same firm that worked on the Taj Mahal hotel. Inside, a tesserae of antiquities, salvaged from across the country – think Mughal miniatures, Rajput art, and Maratha relics.—By arrangement with citystory.At Olympia, reputed to be one of the first restaurants to open in Colaba, the chef’s Midas touch stretches to all things meaty, and evokes opulent north Indian cooking — biryani, kebab, khichda, paya.Now we yo-yo back to the NGMA, not just a shrine to art, both Indian and international, but also a space for freedom rallies, concerts and exhibitions.e. Today, it threads body and soul together in the long interval between breakfast and lunch. For your money, you get a blithe gentleman plunking away sprightly, old-fashioned airs on a piano, an unparalleled view of the Gateway of India, five-star service, and a pageant of teatime treats i. Afterwards, the charming museum shop. demure cucumber sandwiches, scones crowned with jam and clotted cr...
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