Mumbai for foodies

Best restaurants

Mumbai eats on a long clock, and this list is built around that fact. The earliest door here opens at 06:30 and the latest closes at 02:30, so the useful question is rarely where to eat and usually when. The 12 picks run from a hotel kitchen cooking Pan-Asian and Japanese food on Juhu Tara Road to a single-cuisine South Indian room on D K Sandu Marg, taking in a rooftop opposite Ghatkopar East Railway Station that lists Jain cooking beside Mexican and Italian. Several of these menus sprawl across four or five cuisines, and our advice throughout is the same: pick one lane and order it well. We built this list for visitors who would rather plan around opening hours and postal codes than around hype. Two of these kitchens close on Mondays, one runs only morning-to-lunch hours, and one shows no Wednesday service at all. Read the hours before you read the menu.