Eating Out in Mumbai
If you are foodie, you can’t find yourself in a better place in India than Mumbai. Food is right on top of the city’s many attractions, and eating out in this city is a great experience. If you are thinking local cuisine, vada pav, pav bhaji, batata vada, you name it you get it. There is a wide variety of eat-out places in Mumbai to suit all kinds of palates and pockets.
What should one try out when one’s in Mumbai then? We’ve put together a small list for you, so start ticking each one off your list if you happen to be in the city. These dishes are available in most of the hotels in Mumbai.
- Vada pav: Would you risk being in Mumbai and not biting into the city’s version of the burger? It is essentially a batata vada (boiled potatoes, coriander, green chilli dipped into a batter of chickpea flour and deep fried) placed in the middle of two buns.
- Sabudana vada: Sago mixed with boiled potatoes, green chillies and coriander leaves made into a patty and deep fried.
- Misal pav: This is a dish made of sprouted lentils, mixed with potato, poha or beaten rice, chopped onions, tomato etc, making it a spicy concoction to be eaten with pav.
- Kheema pav: Mutton that is made with onions, garlic, chillies, spices and tomato is made into a kheema with is eaten with pav bread.
- Bombil or the Bombay Duck fry: If you are in Mumbai, and you are a sea-food lover, well you are in the right city, after all! Any self-respecting hotel in the city will offer a deep fried version of this extremely soft fish found in the Arabian Sea.
- More Konkan seafood: In the mood for some more seafood? Then look for prawn gassi, (prawns cooked in a coconut gravy-based preparation), teesri masala, or clams in a coconut masala preparation, and rawas, surmai and pomfret which are three most well-known fish in the area and are made into curries. All these dishes are accompanied by neer dosa, which is a thin dosa made of rice.
The city dishes up an astonishing array of chats (pani puri, sevi puri et al), the famed Bombay sandwich (unusual stuffings), Konkan and Goan cuisine, South Indian restaurants that whip out dosas and idlis, authentic Gujarati and Maharashtrian dishes, South Asian food including sushi and sashimi, Italian cuisine, Chinese food, Mexican...the list just keeps growing.
You can savour these dishes at many haunts, from the famed Irani cafes to push-cart vendors to fine-dining places. If you happen to stay in one of the luxury hotels in Mumbai, you will be in for a delightful gastronomic experience. While there has never been a shortage of traditional, local cuisines in the city, Mumbaikars are warming up to the idea of pan-Asian food like never before. The growing popularity of sushi and sashimi, among others is just a case in point. The city now offers a great experience for connoisseurs of food.
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