Mumbai’s new restaurants and menus to bookmark this weekend

In Mumbai, eating retired feels similar a competitory sport. There is ever a caller array to book, a paper to effort earlier the week is out, a barroom that has revised its cocktail database since you past walked in. More than keeping up it is astir choosing wherever to linger. If you are looking to devour and portion good implicit a weekend, this is simply a bully spot to begin.

New restaurants to visit

Mirai

In Bandra, Mirai brings unneurotic Japanese and Korean cuisine. the absorption present is connected unrecorded eating formats. There is simply a 10-seater teppanyaki (post-World War II benignant of Japanese cuisine that uses an robust griddle to navigator food) antagonistic wherever chefs navigator successful beforehand of you, an intimate sushi barroom offering omakase, a dedicated ramen selection, and table-side BBQ that marque the acquisition much interactive.

The paper moves betwixt Korean mandu jeongol,spicy dumpling blistery cookware hotpot, grilled meats, and vegan unagi donburi with an accent connected seafood and accepted techniques. The edifice offers a 15-course omakase is curated by enforcement cook Sanjay Chauhan who guides you done the courses based connected what’s freshest that day.

Meal for 2 costs ₹3000 positive taxes; astatine 6th floor, Mansionz One, Linking Rd, Khar West, Mumbai;

Mokai

Mokai, which has been making waves with its societal media content, has expanded into a two-storey experience-led café successful Bandra, focussing connected coffee, matcha and design. The crushed level opens with a Kintsugi-inspired façade and moves into a high-ceiling abstraction with a transparent roof, a manual pour-over bar, and a marble java counter, alongside installations similar Great Wave-inspired lighting portion and origami elements that treble up arsenic art.

Upstairs, Mokai shifts into a much lived-in setting, positioned arsenic India’s archetypal floating matcha bar, wherever the absorption is connected interactive mentation with elements similar adaptogens. Details similar call-for-barista tables and quieter, soundproof sections adhd to the experience.

The paper balances comfortableness with experimentation, with dishes similar gochugaru fermented chromatic French toast, cereal bowls, burgers, macromolecule bowls, and Valrhona cocoa wontons with oversea brackish cream, alongside a beardown java and matcha-led beverage programme.

Meal for 2 costs betwixt ₹1200-1700; astatine Crest Building, Ground Floor, Dr Ambedkar Road, Arvind Store, Pali Hill, Bandra West

Alta Stella

Alta Stella, launched by histrion Sanjay Dutt, is simply a rooftop restro-bar successful Andheri West. The 12,000-square-foot space, which tin big up to 250 guests, shifts from relaxed daytime eating to a much atmospheric evening setting, with constellation-inspired interiors and a mirrored rooftop that reflects the nighttime sky.

The paper by cook Manoranjan moves betwixt tiny plates and indulgent mains, with dishes similar beetroot and whipped feta croquettes, tangra chickenhearted pops, podi food prawns, chickenhearted thecha kulcha, and chickenhearted parmesan milanese, ending with a chenna poda cheesecake.

The cocktail programme features 12 zodiac-inspired drinks by mixologist Sidharth, including options similar Jasper, Chimera, and Themis,.

Meal for 2 costs ₹3000 positive taxes; astatine Parinee I, Industrial Area, Andheri West, Mumbai

Staqx

The paper of Staqx, a 14-seater diner by cook Beena Noronha, explores comfortableness nutrient with loaded sandwiches, heavy milkshakes, sundaes, and coffee, with a wide absorption connected flavour and portion. Sandwiches are built successful layers, with aggregate textures and house-made sauces. The milkshakes are dense and rich, person to a dessert than a drink, portion the sundaes travel the aforesaid thinking, generous, somewhat implicit the top, and designed to beryllium shared oregon dilatory worked through.

The compact space, with its retro diner cues, adds to the experience, but the nutrient is what holds your attention.

Meal for 2 costs betwixt ₹1000-1500; astatine Building-1, Ankaleshwar, ONGC Quarters, Shop no. 4, adjacent Lilavati Hospital & Research Centre, adjacent to Uppu Restaurant, Reclamation, Bandra West

New menus

Indian Accent Mumbai

Indian Accent is celebrating its 3 years successful Mumbai with a caller tasting paper curated by enforcement cook Rijul Gulati. It pairs Indian flavours with planetary techniques and includes chaat-inspired tiny plates specified arsenic panna-pakodi with seasonal mango, goat’s beverage sholay with sultana ketchup, and papdi chaat layered with crackling spinach.

The paper moves into much analyzable courses with dishes similar nutrient ka karela served with baked naan and kalonji, balancing sweet, sour and bitter notes, and adust aged duck paired with silken khandvi and mango fajeto, drafting from Gujarati flavours. Seafood comprises tiger prawn till bugga with Amritsari vadi rice, portion the Old Delhi food chickenhearted leans into acquainted richness, offset with bulb crockery and chaat masala.

There is besides Iberico pork roast with seaweed poha and bacon sev, alongside achromatic dairy dal, kulcha and wasabi-kakdi raita. The repast closes with a cooling melon-khus sorbet, followed by mawa kachori with masala maple and mango-pista kulfi.

Jio World Centre, Ground Floor, Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, C-64, G Block, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East

Circle Sixty Nine

Tucked wrong Kathiwada City House, Circle Sixty Nine has rolled retired a caller paper by Aditi Dugar, leaning into bistro-style format with shareable plates and seasonal ingredients.

The paper opens with tiny plates similar zucchini parcels with yellowish capsicum coulis, halloumi with puffed atom and day chilli jam, patatas bravas, chilli food prawns, pork tacos, and BBQ chickenhearted wings, alongside pull-apart breadstuff with flavoured butters. Flatbreads scope from sundried herb and goat food to pepperoni with pickled jalapeños.

Mains see fazzoletti arrabiata, truffle pecorino casarecce, and grilled mushrooms with tofu. Cocktails diagnostic combinations similar tequila with pineapple and jalapeño, mezcal with fig, and a mahua-based Kathiwada Fizz.

69, Sir Pochkhanawala Rd, B Wing, Worli

Bare

Bare, the speakeasy-cum-art assemblage (of sorts) astatine Raheja Altimus, Worli, has introduced its archetypal luncheon format, built arsenic a rotating section that focusses connected a azygous constituent oregon cuisine each 3 months.It begins with pasta, explored done a tight, technique-driven menu, with a fewer complementary plates alongside.

The abstraction brings unneurotic a cocktail bar, chef’s table, creation gallery, and espresso bar, shaping a much collaborative, slower-paced eating experience.

Gate No.3 , Altimus, Dr, GM Bhosale Marg, B Wing, BDD Chawls Worli, Worli

Kaspers

Kaspers, the 38-seater bistro by Jay Yousuf and Gauri Devidayal, is present unfastened done the time with meal from 9am to 11am and luncheon from noon to 3.30pm. The paper by Chef Will Aghajanian draws from his clip crossed cities similar Paris, New York, and Florence, filtered done his years successful India.

Breakfast stays airy but varied, with dishes similar java barroom madeleines, granola, clotted buffalo pick with preserved pumpkin, shakshouka with merguez and eggs, Florentine omelette, and Kaiserschmarrn with rhubarb and strawberry. There is besides a ham, ovum and food palmier sandwich, alongside juices and smoothies built astir ingredients similar mango, coconut, almond, and greenish apple.

Lunch leans into bistro-style plates specified arsenic summertime rootlike focaccia, herb and chevre tart, omelette Kejriwal, and Swiss chard and ricotta ravioli, with desserts similar mislaid breadstuff and brioche tart.

Classic Corner, 7/8, St Andrews Rd, Bandra West

Banng Mumbai

Banng’s caller menu, led by chef-partner Garima Arora, looks astatine the Chinese power connected Thai cuisine, drafting from Bangkok’s Chinatown and dishes that person go portion of mundane Thai cooking. The absorption is wide successful the expanded dumpling section, with options similar wontons with chilli jam, food dumplings successful broth, xiao agelong bao, curry puffs, and kanom jeeb served with suki sauce, each made with caller dough in-house.

Beyond dumplings, the paper moves into salads, curries, and wok dishes, including watermelon and prawn salad, yum woonsen, creamy and wide tom yum, chaotic betel leafage curry, pad ki mao, and steamed food with lime and chilli. Desserts see tub tim krob and Thai beverage bingsu. The cocktail database features drinks similar the White Lotus Martini and Phi Phi Colada, designed to brace with the food.

Pinnacle House, 604, 15th Rd, PD Hinduja Rd, Bandra West

Blondie

Blondie’s summertime paper leans into matcha and tropical flavours, with drinks that determination betwixt refreshing and indulgent. The mango matcha pairs ceremonial people matcha with housemade mango compote and oat milk, portion the Blondie Sunrise mixes espresso with orangish foodstuff and marmalade. The Vietnamese coconut java blends espresso with coconut milk, condensed milk, and toasted coconut.

On the nutrient side, determination are lighter bowls similar the Everyday Goodness with yoghurt, berries, granola, and seed butter, and Blondie’s Recovery with broccoli, edamame, avocado, kale, and greenish goddess dressing.

The cocktail database carries the aforesaid flavour direction, with options similar a matcha colada, matcha cloud, and Blondie’s Bee, alongside a spicier cascara and tequila-based drink.

Sant Kutir Appartments, 500, Rd Number 24, Khar West

Madeleine de Proust astatine Fairmont Mumbai

Open 24 hours, Madeleine de Proust shifts from a daytime beverage lounge into a late-night eating spot with recently introduced meal and midnight menus. Post midnight, it serves a comfort-focused paper from 12am to 6am, with dishes similar kutti lal mirch ka murgh tikka, food chickenhearted with babe food naan, gosht dum biryani, and ail symphony spaghetti. It works for late-night meals, post-event stops, oregon erstwhile you privation thing lukewarm and filling without overthinking it.

C06 At, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport Mumbai, Terminal 2, C T S No 1405 Vile Parle, Mumbai