Dishes from Mumbai’s Bhendi Bazaar find a home in this Bengaluru restaurant

Arpitha Rai and Rehana Contractor started the caller edifice The Bombay Chapter 003 arsenic an ode to the streets of Bhendi Bazaar and Mohammed Ali Road successful Mumbai. These historical streets, which travel live during ramzan, are location to thoroughfare nutrient from the Bohri Muslim community, that unrecorded successful the area. The Bombay Chapter 003 (named aft the pin codification of the area) is simply a casual eating restaurant, bringing that iconic cuisine to Bengaluru. The duo says it is not a reinvention. They are not present to elevate oregon refine the cuisine, but they privation to simply construe it to a caller city.

The edifice is located wrong the premises of Uru Brewpark and Thelagram. The ambience is straightforward and plain, successful an open-air setting. We instrumentality seats and pore implicit the menu, that has sections specified arsenic tawa specials, tiny plates, ample plates and biryanis. The duo has brought ustad karigars (masterchefs) from Mumbai to plan the menu. Although it is nutrient heavy, determination is simply a decent enactment for vegetarians arsenic well.

A fig of the appetisers are brought to the table. The presumption is simple, par for people for the casual ambience. We person the celebrated baida roti. An ovum paratha stuffed with dilatory cooked mutton and spices, which is past tawa fried. The paratha is aureate brownish and flakey, and the stuffing is flavourful.

Next, we person the mushroom galouti kebab, 1 for the vegetarians. The kebabs are melt-in-the-mouth, and mildly spiced. The hungama kebab is made of spicy chickenhearted kheema, which is shaped similar a lollipop and past heavy fried. It is amusive and textural. We lavation each these down with Mumbai’s celebrated Pallonji soda, successful flavours of raspberry, lemonade (my prime from the lot), and crystal cream.

Main people is different circular of classical dishes. We person a mutton biryani, and the nalli nihari. The nihari is silky. It is cooked overnight successful a marrow-rich broth. The crockery is served with sheermal pav, a brushed saffron-infused flatbread. The Bombay-style dum biryani is made of long-grain basmati atom and mutton marinated successful Kacchi benignant spices. The Bohri masalas are cardinal to the flavour.

We circular disconnected the repast with a airy caramel custard. The Bombay Chapter 003 does justness to the cuisine of the iconic area. Good for a speedy bite, particularly if you are successful the area.

Cost for 2 ₹1,100. At JP Nagar. For much details, telephone 9353562796