Parel

The best 5 star coffee shop in the city as of now. Expansive menu with multiple options across the cuisine lines.

Anyway we got this veggie Kebab platter thing which is paneer, bread, tikkaish sauce, small cups of biryani, salan and raita. Fantastic little thing this. Great taste, for the accompaniements, the paneer itself was soft, velvety, very good.

Mushroom Wrap, not very interesting, it was tasty but just no real love, it came with a tomato sauce which didnt help it much.

Lasagna, not bad actually, tasty, tangy, enough veggies but the pasta layers itself were very tasty. Nice stuff.

The drinks were terrible. The Lime soda was ok, the bloody mary served with no ice, tasted below par, the Margarita was just plain BAD. they dont know how to make drinks over at ITC.

Service itself was slow, menus took a while, drinks too longer, the chaps were polite and nodded, but didnt understand much it seems.

So it is a great place for food but drinks are terrible as is the service as is the location.

Our meal cost us around 2900 (2 cocktails, one soft drink, 3 entrees)

This place has NO veg food. That's right NOTHING. ZILCH. Not even a token veg dish.

It has about 50 seafood, chicken and mutton dishes in Maharashtrian - Kolhapuri and Malvani style. You get everything from oyesters to shellfish to mussels here.

My favourite here is the Mutton Masala which is in a distinctly Kolhapuri style.

The first time I was there I had Kombdi Wade. I was expecting a Malvani type of dish but the Chicken was in distinctly Kolhapuri style. Spicy with thick gravy. The Wade were just okish but the Chappatis I ordered later were awesome. Thin almost like roomali Roti. I had two just with the gravy.

Cost: Kombdi Wade + 2 Chappatis + Sol Kadi == 53 rupees only!

In my later visits I tried out various seafood and mutton dishes. I would rank the mutton masala as the signature dish.

There exists this concept of "wati rice" in this place where you can order a very small bowl of rice. Just enough for one person without making you too full. Excellent concept.

It's one of few good Maharashtrian non-veg food restaurants left

Trivia: The owner is supposed to be related to the owner of Anant Ashram in Girgaum.

Note: It is closed on Mondays.