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Soul City Ft Bill Brewster

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Soul City is an effort to coalesce the sounds of soul, funk and disco. Bill Brewster is a DJ, record collecter and musician. He has brought a unique sensitivity to some of the world#39;s most hallowed club and festival stages and has long been a trusted hand at the DJ console. He will be supported by 2Sensitive, comprising Yohann Jamsandekar and Abhi Meer, who perform hybrid dance music sets, and DJ and journalist Kenneth Lobo aka LoboCop. Entry: Free  

Knife Painting Workshop

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Explore your creativity and express yourself through art with the Bombay Drawing Room. The workshop will be a guided session on knife painting and will shed light on the basic strokes and techniques. Participants will be encouraged to use this information to make their own creations as well. No prior painting experience is required and necessary materials will be provided at the venue. Tickets: Rs 1,950

Dashanzi

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I confess, initially, I had been apprehensive about dining at this new arrival. Its predecessor had been a flop. Four months ago, the Modern Asian Dashanzi replaced the Spanish Arola which had failed to take off. From the very beginning, I had maintained that Arola in the form it was in would never work in India (though I had loved Sergi Arola’s Michelin-starred restaurant in Madrid). I ate at Dashanzi twice. Ate my way through the menu. Happily. DÉCOR I love this stunning sea-facing JW Marriott with its magnificent high ceilings and sweeping staircases. Walk through the lobby into this modern restaurant clad in muted shades. It is divided into dining rooms, has a long bar and a sea-facing alfresco area.  FOOD Subtle Cantonese, pristine Japanese, exuberant mains, a live sushi and sashimi bar and dramatic, interactive desserts. Not to forget the largest gin collection and many an Asian cocktail, sake, soju and craft beer. Superb sashimi, and well-made sushi (maki and nigiri). Vegetarians must ask for the unusual Nappa Hakusai a delicious sushi roll made without rice but with cabbage leaves and vegetables. Go for the Dynamite spider roll of crisp soft shell crabs dusted with togarashi and spiked with chilly mayonnaise. Potato starch skin dim sum, dusted with polenta and finished with scallion oil are another highlight and there’s plenty of variety. Amazingly light and crispy Bombay duck with salmon tartare, wickedly delicious and meltingly soft pork belly, superlative miso cod and a superb onion oil poached lamb enlivened with kaffir lime. Desserts are works of architecture and flavour; globes of delight be it the coconut five ways or the freezing chocolate balloon. MINUS POINTS Open for dinner only. The nondescript soul-less modern restaurant décor is off-putting. Do be prepared for the music decibels to go up post 10.30 pm as it takes on a lounge avatar. Some of the dishes were oversalted. The Chicken Rendang (I checked it out at both dinners) disappointed consistently with its inauthenticity. Expensive. MY POINT Authentic Japanese and Chinese food has been put through Mumbai’s modern culinary wringer, coming out the other side with some traditions intact and with plenty of art on a plate. Globally awarded Executive Chef Himanshu Taneja, Ranjit Thomas and the expat chefs serve up  Modern Asian fare with oomph (plenty for vegetarians). Finally, Mumbai’s Dashanzi is one better than Beijing’s eponymous art district, after which the restaurant has been named). Reason? it serves up deliciously edible – though high-priced – art.     

A Poetry Festival You Shouldn’t Miss

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A culmination of the two-year-long Poets Translating Poets project initiated by the Goethe-Institut Mumbai, the Poets Translating Poets festival will bring together poets from Germany and across South Asia for a three-day celebration of multiculturalism and diversity that’s packed with poetry readings, film screenings, panel discussions, installations and photo exhibits. What It Is The Poets Translating Poets project was launched in 2014 by the Goethe-Institut Mumbai in collaboration with the Goethe-Institutes in South Asia and the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin to promote a cultural exchange, by creating a platform for poets from Germany and South Asia to translate each other’s works. It has brought together 51 poets from across 20 languages through events across Germany as well as nine ‘poetry encounters’ in Dhaka, Karachi, Colombo, Thiruvananthapuram, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Gangtok. The results of this mammoth project have also been documented and are accessible online - free of cost. What To Expect Day 1 The festival kicks off on November 25th with a street performance aka the Mumbai Tea Party. Poets including Annie Zaidi, Abdul Rasheed, Orsolya Kalasz, Hendrik Jackson and Janhavi Acharekar will perform works in German, Marathi, English, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Urdu and Hindi at five venues across the city – Lower Parel, Mahalaxmi, Colaba Causeway, CST and Dalal Street. The Goethe-Institut at Fort will host a photography exhibition of works by Atul Dodiya that have been influenced by Gujarati poetry and images by various photographers inspired by poems from the project. Visitors can also check out Wordscape, an audio-visual installation by sound designer and composer Udit Duseja, which explores the diversity of regional languages from South Asia and Germany.  The festival will formally open in the evening with a discussion by founders and supporters of the project, followed by a Liederaband concert that pays tribute to the eponymous German tradition where musicians would sing songs inspired by poetry. Day 2 Coinciding with India’s Constitution Day, day two is dedicated to poetry of resistance and peace, secularism and freedom of thought and expression. Several discussions are scheduled through the day, with highlights that include The Culture of Poetry in South Asia, Women Writing in Germany and South Asia, Poetry in Conflict and Language Communities in Mumbai. There will also be poetry readings by participants in the project, as well as a performance of different poetry traditions of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Kerala by Dalit poet Sukirtharani, Marathi folk artist Dhammrakshit Randive and the Yalgaar Collective. The day will end with a performance of works by Kashmiri, Malayali, Tamil, Gujarati and Marathi poets set to musical compositions.  Day 3 The final day will feature panel discussions and workshops that explore poetry’s relationship with others forms of the arts.  At Mausam Hai Shayarana, Abbas Tyrewala and Uditanshu Mehta will look at the role of poetry in Hindi cinema, while poets Rochelle D’silva, Ulrike Almut and Rajshekhar will decode the rising popularity of spoken word poetry. Chaired by Swanand Kirkire, The String Song will feature musicians and poets and examine the relationship between poetry and musical traditions in different languages and culture. We’re also looking forward to the session on poetry in the digital age, which will shed light on how poets can make use of resources such as online communities, e-journals, apps, etc. Attendees can also expand their skills through a workshop on how to present and enact poetry through music by German writer and editor Nicolai Kobus, and a session on translating an image into a poem conducted by Sylvia Geist. The festival closes with rousing jazz performance by the Melt Trio, a German jazz band, whose programme will include improvised compositions to poems by Nicolai Kobus and Rochelle D’silva. When: November 25th – November 27th, 10 am onwards Where: Goethe-Institut, NCPA, Edward Theatre Entry: Free Click here for the complete schedule.  

Bolshoi Ballet: The Golden Age

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Music: Dmitri Shostakovich Choreography: Yuri Grigorovich Cast: The Bolshoi Principals, Corps de Ballet This presentation is a screening of the ballet performance The Golden Age by the internationally acclaimed Bolshoi Ballet. In a seaside town, where business and mafia are flourishing, The Golden Age cabaret is the favourite nightly haunt of dancers, bandits and young revellers, where the young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita, a beautiful dancer, who is also the friend of a local gangster. A satire of Europe during the Roaring Twenties, the show dazzles with its jazzy score and lively performances replete with mad rhythms, vigorous chase scenes and decadent cabaret numbers.  Tickets: Rs 750 Tickets available at BookMyShow.com    

Sonar Kella

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Written and directed by: Satyajit Ray  Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta, Siddhartha Chatterjee, Kushal Chakraborty  Mukul, a young boy, is haunted by memories of his previous life. He is taken to Dr Hajra, a parapsychologist, for treatment. On discovering some of Mukul#39;s drawings, Dr Hajra comes to suspect that a fortress in the drawings may be in Rajasthan. He decides to take Mukul on a trip to Rajasthan in the hope that it might be a cure. When Mukul is kidnapped by some bandits, the detective Feluda and his assistant Tapesh are engaged to recover the child. Admission on a first-come, first-served basis. NCPA members will get preferential seating till 6.20 pm.  

Manganiyar Classroom

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A spin-off from theatre director Roysten Abel#39;s acclaimed production The Manganiyar Seduction, the Manganiyar Classroom features 35 children from the Manganiyar community of musicians of Rajasthan. The unusual production will showcase their talent through a repository of song, dance and rhythm and is an attempt to highlight this rapidly diminishing traditon  Tickets: Rs 300 – Rs 570  Tickets available at BookMyShow.com

The Relationship Agreement

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Written and directed by: Meherzad Patel Cast: Danesh Irani, Darius Shroff, Pheroza Mody  Every relationship is unique. What works for one couple, doesn’t necessarily work for another. There is a process of trial and error before you reach a level of understanding. However, what if, at the start of the relationship, you lay your cards on the table and make a list of things you like, dislike, approve, disapprove. That is what this one couple did – they got into a relationship agreement. Tickets: Rs 200 – Rs 400  Tickets available at BookMyShow.com  

Raat Na Aaaye

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Directed by: Rasika Agashe Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub Cast: Kumud Mishra, Rasika Agashe, Ajit Singh Palawat, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub Based on Long Day#39;s Journey into Night by American playwright Eugene O#39;Neill, Raat na Aaye is the story of a family devastated by its memories. Yashpal Singh Sahney is a legendary actor who was once a star of Indian theatre. His role in television gave him fame and money but ruined his acting career after that. His wife Bala has recently returned from a rehabilitation centre. Their youngest son Aayush might have cancer, while the elder son Raaj is a frustrated soap actor who only got into the industry because of his father’s influence. This play talks about the hypocrisy of familial bonds and true love between family members. Tickets: Rs 200 – Rs 400 Tickets available at BookMyShow.com

The Whispering Garden

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Artist Shruti Nelson will exhibit works on fabric, wood and paper with intricate images inspired by nature. She uses natural elements such as marigold, hibiscus, flame-of-the-forest, fern, eucalyptus leaves, strawberries and rose to make colours and for textural imprints,.as well as traditional dyeing and printing techniques for her creations. Her art deals with the aspects of nature outside the human gaze and hints at the powerful narratives that often go unseen by us. Born Baroda, Gujarat, Shruti Nelson’s trajectory in art follows her education in Zoology. Her works have been shown in a selection of curated exhibitions in India and abroad, with solo shows primarily atHacienda Gallery, Prithvi Gallery, Nazar Gallery and Apparao Galleries.  

Spit Dope Inc

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Over 15 emcees from Mumbai, Delhi and Pune will take to the stage to battle, cipher and perform. The line up for the battle includes Poetik Justis Vs MC Kode, Shreyas Vs Calm, Ankit Harchekarr Vs Encore ABJ and Rapture Vs Sai. Also catch performances by D’Evil, The Champloo Project, Seedhe Maut and Youngsta. Entry: Rs 200

Jon Kennedy Live

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Jon Kennedy is a drummer and electronic musician from Manchester, England. His childhood in Stockport was by exposure to new and interesting music, and he cites Peter Frampton, Electric Light Orchestra, David Essex and Geoff Wayne’s “War of the Worlds”, along with more guitar-centric bands like Kiss and AC/DC as influences. His DJ style is varied but always geared towards the dancefloor.  Entry: Free

Room Temperature Guy

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Kautuk Srivastava is an average guy whose life has been a series of misadventures that are hilarious to everybody who isn#39;t him. In this hour-long show, the writer and comedian mixes personal stories, astute observations and his inherent goofiness as he takes you through all the tragedies of his life – from losing the genetic lottery, bringing bad luck to every girl he asks out, unwittingly getting into street fights, having a beard before he was even a teenager, to the oppression he faces because he wears specs. The night will also feature comedian Joel D#39;souza as the opening act. Tickets: Rs 250 Tickets available at BookMyShow.com

Sanjay Manaktala Live

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Sanjay Manaktala is a stand-up comedian raised in the United States and currently based in India. He is a former software engineer who loved the IT consulting lifestyle but ultimately found his calling in comedy. He has performed all over the world and for various festivals with some of the top comedians from India and abroad. Tickets: Rs 499 Tickets available at BookMyShow.com  

Dame Funny

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Join Sonali Thakker, Trupti Khamkar and Prashasti Singh for a hour of stand-up comedy completely free of testosterone... well almost. Admittedly, they do not know many women. But they do know all the funny ones. Tickets: Rs 350 Tickets available at BookMyShow.com  

British Brewing Company

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I went to this sprawling Phoenix Mills ‘British Brewing Company expecting a raucous pub (which it is) a dimly lit bar (which it has) but here’s the surprise – ‘It’s a family restaurant’. And children are not only allowed in British Brewing Company but welcomed. Decor Zoom up the Phoenix High Street lift (make it a point to ask for the correct one) to British Brewing Company. Walk into a dimly lit sprawling space that looks instantly weathered and utterly familiar, TV screens, dark woods and island bar et al. Loud, very loud music. Packed and noisy. Food Pub grub? Comfort food all the way. Generous portions. It was only the Fish’n Chips, which were well-made, crisp and golden. The rest of it was gloopy big servings. Minus Points From the Shepherd’s Pie (which was anything but) to the Sticky Toffee Pudding (sticky for sure, but oversweet) the food disappointed. Be it the bruschetta, the masaledar (Mumbai potatoes), spaghetti, burger or wrap… Soggy, stodgy and avoidable. My Point British Brewing Company sharply reflects a few of the most prominent developments in Mumbai dining that I’ve been tracking in. Approachability, affordability and accessibility are the guiding ethos now. Affordable price points (Rs 1200 for two), generous helpings and a mish mash of comfort foods is what accounts for the popularity of British Brewing Company. Please don’t go looking for authentic pub-grub, because it’s the open through the day, a full bar and kids welcome policy that have made it into a popular family restaurant.  Critic reviews are anonymous and all bills are paid by them.

The American Joint

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Caution: Don#39;t get misled by the name. This brand new American Joint ain#39;t got no steaks or burgers et al. It is in fact, (hold your breath) pure vegetarian and focuses on Jain food.  I popped in unannounced. The small BKC  eatery was packed.   Decor Go up the escalator of the fancy BKC office building into this seriously small glassed off, wooden floored space with green sofas. I found out later that 22 year old Manan Mehta (who#39;s always present) and his three friends run the eatery, which also explains the choice of loud music (Ricky Martin et al). Food Proudly and unapologetically Indianised, this vegetarian eatery offers #39;American plates inspired with characteristic Indian flavours#39; and it also claims to use only organic fruits  and vegetables. No microwave or artificial additives, colourings or flavourings are used here. Place your order directly at the table on an electronic tablets (minimum waiter interaction) and get ready for Indo-western fusion. Jains you have hit jackpot here as even the fries are made of raw banana (instead of potato) and what a choice! Say Cheese Chilli (raw banana) and potato fries, Bhajji Time, Tikktastic are all delicious. Even the Chilli Cheese Burger has a raw banana patty. A tasty version of American Mac n cheese is given a tikka twist, There’s a delicious Falafalized Burger, a Greek salad and Nachos piled over with cheddar, veggies and Queso sauce. The Sunday morning pancakes with maple syrup and Nutella were worth trying.  Minus Points It’s a limited menu. It needs more desserts, over-sweet sugar doughnuts with Nutella espresso sauce, stodgy  chocolate pie. Hummus lacked punch and texture, ditto for the Green pea jalapeño hummus (with  veggies on a multigrain toast)  Paneer Stir Fry Rice Skillet goes a bit far with it’s Indo-American-Chinese twist. No alcohol.  My Point This brand new American joint takes particular care of the Jain palate. It serves raw banana fries (instead of potato fries) and has other options. Generous portions and pocket-friendly prices. Its ideal for vegetarians in the vicinity for a quick meal. But I was pleasantly surprised to find diners who had come from Colaba, Nepean Sea Road and Ghatkopar. Most of them Jains. Undoubtedly a jackpot for Jains!    Critic reviews are anonymous and all bills are paid by them.    

Chemistry 101 - Gastro Bar

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Mindblowingly fabulous to scientific nightmares. I’ve experienced it all. Call it ‘Avant Garde cuisine’, ‘culinary scientific shenanigans’ ‘use of physics and chemistry in cooking’ or ‘molecular gastronomy’ My first experience of it was at  the pioneering El Bulli – the Spanish wizard Ferran Adria’s mind-blowing restaurant near Barcelona. It teased my intellect and pampered all my senses. UK’s Heston Blumenthal followed it up in Fat Duck. Los Angeles Bazaar by Jose Andres (playful and fun) Gaggan in Bangkok (love the way he scientifically interprets Indian food). However, New York’s Wylie Dufresne’s WD 50 (awful) Spain’s Andoni Luis Aduriz’s Mugaritz (ghastly) were so intent on the audacious flavour combinations, and cerebral shenanigans that they neglected  what is most important to the diner: tasty food. So when Cardiff’s highly celebrated and awarded Indian chef Stephen Gomes sets up his Chemistry 101 in Lower Parel, I go with mixed feelings. Decor Located in the corporate jungle of Lower Parel, it’s wooden floored, two levels are sparsely done up (with a few test tubes and the like) almost deliberately so as to force focus on the food. Food Molecular  Innovative presentations, foams,  fumes, air, bubbles, unusual mixtures and textures, deconstruction, splashes of colour, spherifications… You name it and chef Gomes weaves his molecular magic on Indian food. In their signature Atlantis served in a square glass bowl, flash grilled prawns are mellow with a moilee veloute, edible sand, and picturesque with a seashell meringue, foam and edible flowers. Can Caprese Salad be tasty with a makhani dressing and rasam? Chef Gomes ensures it is, he adds a quivering air balloon of mozzarella, balsamic vinegar pearls, and olive oil soil to it. We recommend their Smoked Chicken Roll, Paneer 3 States, ADIDAS Chicken too. Many a molecular fun cocktail too. Classics There is a happy balance. The classic dishes are retained in their original form, with a little twist here and there.  Robustly spiced Kaleji is served with miniature 20 ladipav, as is the delicious Misal. Authentic Lamb Biryani topped with a Raita Ravioli. Tasty Maa Ki Daal too. Minus Points  Some of the dishes are brilliantly presented, but low on taste.  The bhelpuri is chilled to perfection with liquid nitrogen, there’s Jetchill pani-puri and dahiwada ravioli. But they lack the chatpatta punch and flavour, Ditto for the overdone deep fried chicken lollipops. Though innovatively presented, the desserts fail to hit the sweet spot. The champagne jelly saffron and cinnamon pannacotta is a grey unappetising ball and Cariad (white chocolate lavender, orange chocolate and powdery chocolate brownie) is avoidable. There doesn’t seem to be any sound proofing at all. Too noisy. My Point  We dine here on a rained out Tuesday night and it is rocking and packed with youngsters. Aniket and Anupam Mayekar’s Chemistry 101 has obviously caught Mumbai’s imagination. It’s a wise move to add on classics to the Molecular gastronomy menu. The fact, that inspite of Chef Gomes being back in Cardiff, Chef Manoj has kept up the standards is commendable. A few of the dishes do sacrifice taste to gimmickry and the room is just too noisy. However, what is truly commendable is that Chemistry 101 pushes against the envelope of  conformity  and produces Indian food that’s playful and joyful. Result? A noisy Fun gastro bar! Jai ho! Critic reviews are anonymous and all bills are paid by them.

Cafe Mezzuna

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Here’s a joyous whoop for this brand new, already-packed restaurant. It symbolises Mumbai’s restaurantscape’s most prevalent trend: Moderately priced, accessible European fare and located in a mall. The good news is that Café Mezzuna hits the sweet spot on all counts. The bad news is, if (like me) you live in South Mumbai, it’ll take you two hours to drive to Infinity mall, in Andheri West, where it is located. Of course that doesn’t apply to all of you; living around here (provided you like dining in a mall.) Decor Walk through Infinity Mall’s cluttered, brightly lit and frenetic food court and into Café Mezzuna. Its mellow, suffused green tones will envelope and coddle you soothingly. There’s dramatic lighting on the tables. The bar is prettily draped in greenery. Food Well made dishes. Good quality ingredients shine through. There’s complimentary Lavash and garlic mayo on each table. Flavoursome and soothing Pumpkin Soup, followed by ravioli plump with blue cheese make for a satisfying vegetarian meal. But the Piece De Resistance was the Morocco Lamb Chops, robustly flavoured and falling off the bone. Tiramisu with the perfect kiss of coffee and a deliciously velvety Crème Brulee with a glassy crunchy crust. The Vanilla Rock dessert made on the table itself is an unusual entertaining feature. A well-stocked bar. Minus Points When the menu isn’t particularly inventive; it puts a real premium on execution of the dishes. So, at a restaurant this straightforward, the pizza can’t be as soggy or the baked vegetable as swimming in a cheesy sauce as it was.  The mezze has to be more authentic and the dips more flavoursome. The barley risotto more mellow. The pana cotta has to have more texture and taste. My Point Having received accolades in Pune and Kolkatta, this all day dining Mediterranean restaurant opened in Infinity mall and has been packed since it set up, a couple months ago. Anjan Chatterjee’s group (Oh Calcutta, Mainland China group) has real talent in its DNA and seems to have perfected the formula of a hugely successful mall restaurant, with affordable price points and food which does a deft, unusual seesaw between heartiness and delicacy. Critic reviews are anonymous and all bills are paid by them.

Dishkiyaoon

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Balle! Balle! Fun dining comes of age in Mumbai. Dishkiyaoon - the three month old restaurant in BKC more than lives up to its name. When we popped in here for an early lunch and it was packed. Decor Swings to swing on, a rocking horse to rock on, but I’m sure the quirky bathtub with its shower is not meant to bathe in. Either way, playfulness marks the sprawling glassed in space. A vertical garden, the Mumbai skyline, a mobile phone charger on wheels too. Kudos to Clement DSylva. Food Detailed quirky décor and food too. It puts a playful spin on Indian food and zig zags through fun cocktails with Indian ingredients (Bloody Bannerjee to Filter coffee Martini) munchies to desserts.  Dollops of robust flavours and funky marriages, be it the burger in a kulcha or eggs Benedictine on idlis. Well made thin crust pizza, velvety Coconut-y Prawn Curry, but it’s the Mutton Curry with its perfect punch of masalas and succulent mutton that comes up tops. Okayish Chicken Cafreal and a big joyous whoop for the Iddiyapams that accompany many a dishes and are a rarity on most restaurant menus. Minus Points Some mismatched marriages: like the Wada Pav Salad, where the mini batata wadas and pieces of pav knock about acrimoniously. The halwa and the pie base don’t make happy bedfellows in The Beetroot Halwa Pie. And Eggs Benedict on Idlis were cold and tasteless.  Toastie, a soggy mess.  Too many flies (more fly killers needed). My Point Open through the day, daylight bathed sprawling quirky space from the Copa, Kino group. It puts a tasty playful spin on Indian food, though there are dishes that topple into being mere lacklustre gimmicks. It sure is a great way to take a break for those in the office complex of Bandra Kurla and in the vicinity. Moderately priced fun dining. Balle! Balle!  Critic reviews are anonymous and all bills are paid by them.
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