Mumbai for first-time visitors

Best restaurants

Mumbai eats around the clock and across continents on a single block. The twelve restaurants below run from a 07:30 South Indian breakfast counter in Chembur East to a Lower Parel rooftop pouring drinks until 01:00, and they cover seafood and fine dining at Kohinoor Square, Burmese cooking on Senapati Bapat Marg, Mexican on a Bandra Kurla corporate road, and a south Indian institution that has stayed south Indian. This is not a tasting-menu list. It is a working map for someone who wants to eat well across the city's actual geography — Worli, BKC, Powai, Chembur, Dadar, Ghatkopar, Vile Parle, Lower Parel — and who would rather read the address than the hype. Every name, hour, address and cuisine claim below traces to OpenStreetMap or the restaurant's own site; the opinions are ours, and they are the only thing not cited.