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Lebanese Point: Lebanese Fast Food

A lovely little place that serves some really good and very reasonably priced Lebanese and other cuisine like wraps, shawarmas, mezzes, salads, sandwiches and pizzas besides some nice coffees and teas (hot and cold). Located at Bandra West on the main road next to Movie Time cinema hall, it is one of the newest places to serve Lebanese style food served in a no nonsense way. Good fillings and tasty stuff. They have a seating area for about 25 persons below and a small open area outside the restaurant with a few tables for about ten people. Highly recommended for anyone with a craving for Lebanese style fast food and very light on the stomach as well as wallet too.

Favorite Dish: Some of the good things to have out here are the Chicken Shawarma Wrap (Rs95), Labaneh (Rs55), Lebanese Chicken Grilled Arayes (Rs75), etc. Also try the Peach Iced Tea (Rs45), Espresso (Rs35) and Spiced Cold Coffee (Rs55).

Address: 259, Deccan Court Bldg, S V Road, Bandra, Mumbai.

Comparison: least expensive

Directions: Next to Movie Time Theatre, S. V. Road, Bandra (West), Mumbai - 400050.

Other Contact: Cell Phone: 0091-9819448482

Phone: 0091-022-30633290/1

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Middle Eastern

Tea Centre.: The best tea in town!!!

The best place to have the best tea in town!!! It serves a lovely breakfast menu as well as lunch and dinner but the main thing in this place is the TEA!!! There are so many different varieties that you will find it difficult to choose and pick from the scores of different types available!!! From flavoured teas to the best orange pekoe teas that you can get this side of town!!! Available in tea pots meant for two or six depending on the number of people drinking!!! Iced tea flavours available too!!! You can buy the tea at the tea shop outside the restaurant too!!! There is a poster explaining the whole tea making process for your information too. Teas from different tea gardens like Assam, Darjeeling, Nilgiris and Kashmir are available in different flavours and types too, so take your pick!!! I'm sure you will enjoy atleast one of them!!! A lot of other pastries and snacks available throughout the day and special lunch and dinner menus are also worth trying out for some special Indian or continental cuisine!!!

Favorite Dish: The best tea in town!!! Need I say more?!!! HAHAHA!!!

Address: Resham Bhavan, 78, Veer Nariman Road, Churchgate.

Comparison: about average

Directions: Opposite the Asiatic Stores and next to the Churchgate Railway Station on the main road as soon as you come out of the station towards your right hand side.

Other Contact: Telefax: 091-022-56301386

Phone: 091-022-22819142

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Diner

VEGETARIAN & "THALIS": Gujarati Thali in Old Mumbai. VEGETARIAN & THALIS Review

This place serves only Gujarati Thalis so there is no choice in ordering what you want but you can select what you want in the thali once you get all the items in it and take more of what you like most amongst the seven different things they offer on your plate in small bowls that make up your thali. The service is unlimited food that is kept on being served to you regardless of how much you have eaten and unless you tell them to stop they will keep on serving you and keep all the bowls full. The place is airconditioned and nicely done up with a lot of old brass pots and artefacts on the walls. Great food and nice ambience with six to eight people all waiting to serve you all the different items continuously till you can have no more!!! Cooked in a very hygeinic way and served in shining stainless steel thalis you are pampered with a lot of good food till you are ready to drop dead with all the good food in your stomach!!! At Rs130 per thali it is a very good priced offer for someone who lives to eat or loves to eat!!! The timings are from 11am to 3pm for lunch and 7pm to 10pm for dinner (Closed on Sunday evenings). All Thaker Bhojanalay tip pictures courtesy: Navinkurian2002@VT.

Favorite Dish: There is only one thing you can order here ..... the Thali!!! It is a plate with a lot of different small bowls with all the different types of dishes served one after the other and kept on being served till you protest and say no!!! The serving is unlimited and continuous so you really have to tell them to stop very firmly if you don't want to waste the food in your plate. There is a lot of vegetables and dal varieties along with the chapati, phulkas, jowar and bajra rotis besides the rice and khichdi that you can try from and then take more once you know which you like or have them all till you are full!!! A glass of buttermilk is also served. There is a sweet dish selection as well with atleast four to five different sweet dishes like Shrikhand, Rasmalai, Rasgolla, Gulab Jamun and you can choose what you want. The water is only served from mineral water bottles. The place has a small dining area so not too many tables out there so come early if you don't want to wait in queue to get in.

Address: 31, Dadiseth Agyari Lane, Off Kalbadevi Rd, Mum-2.

Comparison: about average

Directions: It is on the first floor of an old building with a tailors shop at the entrance. The road is very narrow so it is preferable to walk than take a car or taxi. It is a popular place so just ask anyone on the road and you will be guided to the place easily.

Phone: 091 - 022 - 22011232 or 22088035

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Vegan/Vegetarian

Hotel Sindhudurg.: Malvani Cuisine Restaurant.

Gleaming stainless steel table tops with three levels of seating in an air conditioned setting and some very fast service with very helpful staff to explain the ingredients used to make the different dishes to our foreign guests!!! Not too expensive for the quality as well as quantity of food served!!! Located in a small lane off the busy Dadar residential area.

Favorite Dish: Solkadi has to be it but it is not a dish as it is only a drink or something like a curry but can be drunk from a glass!!! Delicious if eaten with plain rice too as it is sweet, spicy and tangy!!! Made of coconut and kokum mixed together with a paste of coriander, green chillies, garlic and ginger to taste. The seafood is something that is special as it is from the coastal area that this place is famous for it's cuisine. We had the mackerel and pomfret along with some king prawns too. We also ordered the fish thali so it comes with a curry, some vegetables, rice and some solkadi too along with chappatis or wadas (like a puri).

Address: Sita, R K Vaidya Road, Dadar, Mumbai 400028.

Comparison: about average

Directions: Inside Ram Maruti Lane (second lane on the right hand side after Shiv Sena Bhavan or Kohinoor Mills Showroom towards Dadar Railway station).

Phone: 091-022-24301610

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 4

Theme: Indian

Cafe Mondegar: Mario's Cartoons Cafe!!! OTHERS Review

Cafe Mondegar (Where you can mix music with beer!!!) is one of the loveliest old world charm places still left in Mumbai after the original Irani resaurants all closed down so to speak and this was a new 'avatar' for the old place with a juke box and old world style that cannot be replicated anytime!!! Mario Miranda (the famous cartoonist) has done some nice murals on the walls from his cartoon themes and they represent Mumbai as seen by him!!! It still has a lot of things like the menu slid under the glass table top and the juke box belching out musical numbers at the drop of a coin!!! The food is continental and Indian and is good to taste and with big helpings too!!! Beer is available in bottles, cans and as well as on tap too!!! Fantastic atmosphere and cool place to hang out for a late night or an early breakfast which is one of the good choices to eat for a early morning before you head out to the Elephanta caves from Apollo Bunder!!!

Favorite Dish: The breakfast menu has a lot of choices for a fixed price and it serves a good indian or continental breakfast with fresh fruit juices and tea or coffee!!! Good food at good prices!!!

The lunch and dinner is also a mix of continental and indian food with a choice of vegetarian or non-vegetarian cuisine!!!

Address: Metro House, 5-A, Next to Regal Cinema, Colaba 39.

Comparison: about average

Directions: Next to Regal Cinema, you cannot miss it!!! On the corner of the lane going in towards the Taj Mahal Hotel.

Phone: 22020591 / 22830586

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Other

Jimmy Boy Family Restaurant: Another Parsi food restaurant!!! OTHERS Review

Generally very good Parsi food and especially good Parsi Wedding feast food called "Lagan nu Bhonu" served on a banana leaf like in most Parsi weddings in traditional style!!! Try it for a change of taste from the normal Indian food!!! It's different and you'll like it too!!!

Favorite Dish: Patra ni machhi (steamed Pomfret fish in green chilli chutney and wrapped in a banana leaf).

Delicious fish speciality dish of the Parsis!!! Always served at any Parsi wedding feast!!!

Jerdaloo Salli Boti (chicken with dried apricots and fine grated fried potato chips).

Very delicious chicken "boti" (boneless chicken pieces) cooked in brown gravy with "jerdaloo" (dried apricots) and topped with a finely grated "salli" (potato chips finely grated and fried) to be eaten with either bread or chappatis. Tastes very good and is a dish that is served usually at Parsi wedding feasts!!!

Address: Bank Street, Horniman Circle, Fort, Mumbai 400023.

Comparison: about average

Directions: Near Horniman Circle and opposite the Town Hall / Asiatic Library Building.

Phone: 091-022-22700880

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 5

Theme: Diner

Samovar Cafe: Cafe inside the Art Gallery!!! OTHERS Review

The Samovar Cafe is a nice little place tucked away behind the Jehangir Art Gallery and is as famous as the gallery!!! So while you take a peek at the art in the gallery there is a lot of fantastic cuisine awaiting you in the cafe inside the gallery!!! Fancy names and artists will mingle with you and you can brush shoulders here with some of the art fraternity of Mumbai while you have your cuppa coffee or even mint tea!!! Try out the special snacks or light lunches available throughout the day!!! Delicious mouth watering delicacies available here too!!! Nibble something while your eyes take some rest from the artwork!!!

Address: Jehangir Art Gallery, Next to the Museum.

Comparison: about average

Directions: Inside the Jehangir Art Gallery, next to the Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj (Prince of Wales) Museum building, On the right hand side as you enter the gallery.

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 4

Theme: Indian

Indian Summer: Good Indian Food!!! OTHERS Review

We had a VT mini-meeting here with Canadienne (and Jessica), Amitu and myself!!! Great ambience and the food was lovely!!! Enjoyed the meeting more than the food though!!!

Picture courtesy:- Stevie (canadienne@VT)

Address: Veer Nariman Road, Mumbai 400020.

Comparison: about average

Directions: Close to Churchgate Railway Station on the main road towards Marine Drive.

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 4

Theme: Indian

Chetana Restaurant: Indian High Tea!!! VEGETARIAN & THALIS Review

This is a vegetarian Thali restaurant but we went for the evening High Tea which is from 3pm to 7pm and it serves a fixed price menu for a choice of three snacks from the menu plus the tea or coffee for Rs75 or individual items priced at about Rs20 - Rs25 each and the drinks (Tea, coffee or cold drinks) are extra!!! Nice atmosphere!!! Very good food!!! Also very famous for it's vegetarian 'Thali' buffet lunch and dinner!!! Try it out for a change!!! You will love it!!!

Picture courtesy: Rathika (Radz@VT)

Address: Rampart Row, Fort, Mumbai - 400001.

Comparison: about average

Directions: Situated just behind the Jehangir Art Gallery or next to Rhythm House (the music store) at Kala Ghoda near the Museum.

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 4

Theme: Vegan/Vegetarian

Mocambo Cafe and Beer Bar: Parsi Food Restaurant!!!

The restaurant is a very famous place for Parsi food during lunch hours and is basically a beer bar where a bottle of 750 ml of any brand of beer is priced at Rs.65 and a pint for Rs.45 only. A small place with two levels for seating about 50 persons in all, it is generally full at all times!!! Comparatively a very cheap place considering the location in the business district in the heart of Mumbai!!!

Favorite Dish: Chicken/Mutton Dhansak which is a speciality dish of the Parsis in Mumbai!!! Also other Parsi dishes, continental dishes like Fish fillet, French fries and grilled sandwiches which are very good!!! Chinese dishes also available. Try the custard for dessert and also the pot tea is unlike the tea you get in almost all other restaurants with milk added to it!!!

Address: 23-A, Sir Phirozsha Mehta Road, Mumbai 400001.

Comparison: less expensive than average

Directions: Opposite Khadi Bhavan, near Flora Fountain.

Phone: 091-022-22870458

Price: less than US$10

Rating: 0

Theme: Diner