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Anantashram
This no-frills restaurant is as renowned for its Spartan decor and surliness of its staff as for its supremely delicious cooking and thali meals. Look for it down a small maze of laneways.
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Bade Miya
As Mumbai as traffic jams, this street-stall-on-steroids buzzes nightly with punters from all walks of Mumbai life lining up for spicy, fresh grilled treats. Grab a chicken tikka roll to go, or snap up one of makeshift street-side tables to sample the boti kebab (lamb kebab) or paneer masala (cheese and tomato curry).
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Badshah
Badshah Snacks & Drinks is opposite Crawford Market. It has been serving snacks and fruit juices to hungry bargain-hunters for over 100 years.
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Delhi Darbar
There's plenty of competition for your curry on the Causeway but this place is one of South Mumbai's best Mughlai and tandoori restaurants. There's a slightly formal atmosphere, but the standard of food is excellent.
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Gaylord
Great North Indian dishes served with over-the-top, Raj-era styles dining replete with tuxedo'd waiters hanging on your every gesture. They also serve domestic and imported wines.
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Goa Portuguesa
A visit to this restaurant, which specialises in fiery Portuguese-inspired dishes, is almost as good as making the trip to Goa. Next door, its partner business, Culture Curry, offers all kinds of curries from around India. Guitar-strumming musicians and singers wander between the two connected spaces.
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Ideal Corner
Mumbai offers a cosmopolitan mix of all the many Indian cuisines, including Parsi. Ideal Corner is a classic Parsi cafe serving a different menu daily.
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Kailash Parbat
Kailash Parbat is nothing fancy, but has become a Mumbai legend, thanks to its inexpensive Sindhi-influenced vegetarian snacks, mouth-watering sweets and extra-spicy masala chai.
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Khyber
Khyber serves Punjabi and other North Indian dishes in moody, burnt-orange, Afghan-inspired interiors to a who's who of Mumbai's elite. The food is some of the best the city has to offer, with the meat-centric menu wandering from kebabs, to biryanis, to it's pièce de résistance, raan (a whole leg of slow-cooked lamb).
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Laxmi Villas
Laxmi Villas is a budget eatery that serves great southern specialties in comfortable, modern, AC surrounds. Dosas are the specialty, one reader even wrote in 'we still dream of the meals we ate there.'
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Mahesh Lunch Home
A modern version of a hole-in-the-wall come good, this is the place to try Mangalorean seafood at budget prices. It's renowned for its ladyfish, pomfret, lobster and crabs, and its rawas tikka (marinated white salmon) and tandoori pomfret are outstanding.
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National Hindu Hotel
Keralan run, this concealed, no-frills and grittily authentic working-man's eatery serves nothing but finger-licking (there are no utensils), all-you-can-eat thalis. Expect a fast-moving line out the door and rows of benches inside. Just find a spare seat, say hello to your neighbour, and wait for wandering staff to fill your banana leaf to the brim.
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New Kulfi Centre
New Kulfi Centre is just the ticket for cooling down your dusty gullet after a long walk around Chowpatty. As the name suggests, it serves kulfi, a pistachio-flavoured sweet similar to ice cream.
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Peshwari
Make this Indian northwest frontier restaurant, conveniently located just outside the international airport, your first or last stop in Mumbai. You will not regret forking out for the sublime leg of spring lamb and amazing dhal Bukhara (a thick black dhal cooked for over a day.)
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Rajdhani
This smart place, opposite Mangaldaas Market, is a great spot to refuel with a tasty thali (from around Rs14 ) while shopping in the Crawford Market area.
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Samrat
Samrat is a busy traditional Indian vegetarian restaurant, one of three premises at the same location run by the same company: Relish (open lunch and dinner)is its funkier cousin, with dishes ranging from Lebanese platters to Mexican; 210°C is an outdoor cafe and bakery (open to ).
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Trishna
If you feel like splashing out, this local legend just keeps getting better with age and has a strong reputation for seafood cooked in a myriad of ways. The prawns and lobsters will be brought to your table for inspection before you order. Try the Hyderabadi pomfret and koliwala (fisherman's style) prawns.
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