[Tuckerman]

I'll be in Mumbai for a couple of weeks in August. Anybody know the best places to eat-I mean upscale, the best the city has to offer?

Thanks

T

[mongo_jones]

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mumbai/bombay is the best city in india for casual dining. the best upscale restaurants are in delhi.

[tanabutler]

I believe that, by August, chefs Suvir Saran and Hemant Mathur (formerly of Amma, now of Dévi in NYC) shall have a new place open in Delhi. I don't yet know its name, but will post if it's needed.

[Tuckerman]

mongo_jones, on Apr 8 2005, 02:31 PM, said:

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mumbai/bombay is the best city in india for casual dining. the best upscale restaurants are in delhi.

That's terrific mj, thanks. Any high end tips, though? I had one of the most revelatory meals of my life at the restaurant in the Oberoi Hotel in Bombay in 1989. It was stunning. Are the hotel restaurants still the best?. Any high end info. greatly received.-and Indian food only please. I don't need to be eating Italian food in Bombay

[mongo_jones]

Tuckerman, on Apr 10 2005, 12:39 PM, said:

mongo_jones, on Apr 8 2005, 02:31 PM, said:

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mumbai/bombay is the best city in india for casual dining. the best upscale restaurants are in delhi.

That's terrific mj, thanks. Any high end tips, though? I had one of the most revelatory meals of my life at the restaurant in the Oberoi Hotel in Bombay in 1989. It was stunning. Are the hotel restaurants still the best?. Any high end info. greatly received.-and Indian food only please. I don't need to be eating Italian food in Bombay

i am not a mumbaikar/bombayite. there are plenty on a-s though. in general, yes, the best high-end dining in all the indian metros is still in the 5-star hotels. i believe the sheraton folks have opened a branch of the otherworldly dum pukht (at the delhi maurya sheraton) in one of their bombay hotels (chef quereishi trained the staff himself)--you should probably not miss it. the north indian and frontier cuisine restaurants at the various sheraton, taj and oberoi properties are all always going to be excellent--you can't go terribly wrong trying them all, and in two weeks you should have enough time. there is also a famous south indian restaurant in another of the 5-stars but the name escapes me for the moment*--i'll try to find out more specific info if you like.

i should say, however, that to go to bombay and not eat at the various relatively more downmarket malvani/konkani and parsi restaurants (of which there are no upscale analogs that i am aware of) would be a mistake. there are some mentioned in that thread. mahesh lunch home, in particular, is an institution.

*and it returns: the konkan cafe at the taj president. you should probably put that near the top of the list--that's food you can't get in any of the other major cities (not of that quality anyway).

This post has been edited by mongo_jones: 10 April 2005 - 09:17 PM

[vidia]

fyi - for those reading this and drooling in the LA area, Maurya, on Doheny south of Wilshire in Beverly Hills, is a newly-opened upscale Indian resto and I am told the chef is from one of the hotel restaurants in Mumbai. The manager claims he used to cook a lot for Shah Rukh Khan, that well-known gourmet. It's slightly expensive, but excellent. It also has a bar and lounge area.