Mumbai has one more new handle for coastal South Indian cooking with Dakshin Legacy, a fine-dining restaurant that focuses squarely on the area’s shoreline cuisines. The menu spans Mangalorean, Goan, Kerala and Tamil Nadu cooking, rooted in conventional strategies like clay-pot simmering, banana-leaf steaming and freshly extracted coconut milk, with spices sourced immediately from the southern coast. The kitchen is led by chef Nagesh Poojari, whose strategy is affected person and deeply conventional. The meals leans into acquainted preparations like crab chettinad constructed on slow-cooked masala, pomfret gassi with freshly floor coconut, prawns ghee roast, surmai masala fry and clams sukka, the place roasted spices and coconut do the heavy lifting. The bar programme, led by Dharmender Prajapati, attracts from South Indian flavour references with out overwhelming the meal. Cocktails use kokum, herbs, fruits and light-weight spice accents, with drinks like a kokum-and-rum fizz, curry leaf–inflected gin mixes, and softer whisky-forward concoctions. Set throughout a 4,800-sq-ft area with 150 covers, the interiors, designed by founder Harshita Shetty, take cues from coastal properties. Teakwood, cane, vintage window frames, brass particulars and banana-leaf motifs create a room that feels heat and acquainted, shifting comfortably from daytime lunches to extra formal dinners. Dakshin Legacy positions itself as a reliable, polished vacation spot for coastal South Indian meals in the town, suited to household meals, work lunches and celebratory dinners alike, with out dropping sight of the traditions it attracts from.
Lygon St.
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Andheri West will get a new neighbourhood wine bar this January with Lygon St., a compact, 38-seater area impressed by Melbourne’s Italian avenue tradition. Led by chef-founder Sneha Upadhya, the restaurant attracts from the years she spent dwelling and cooking in Melbourne, and from the sort of locations that form on a regular basis eating there, together with small, unpretentious wine bars the place meals and dialog take their time. Designed as an intimate indoor room paired with a road-facing alfresco, Lygon St. is constructed for midweek dinners, and sundown glasses of wine. One of the area’s most intentional decisions is what it leaves out: a standard bar counter. Instead, a wall of wine bottles features as a working cellar, and visitors are guided by way of the checklist table-side by an on-floor sommelier. The meals follows the identical low-key logic. Italian in construction however not certain by labels of authenticity, the menu displays lived experience over strict regionality. Fresh pasta is made each day, pizzas lean into consolation, and plates are designed to be shared over the course of a night. Dessert stays acquainted and unfussy, with a pistachio affogato providing a richer, nuttier tackle the traditional end.
Bare Bombay
Bare Bombay is a shape-shifting new opening in Worli that resists simple categorisation. Depending on the way you enter, and when, you would possibly end up in an artwork gallery, a daytime café, a eating room, or a cocktail bar. Conceived by Pooja Raheja of Eat Drink Design, the area is constructed round art curated by A&H Colab, a café program by Boojee, desserts by Ether Atelier’s Prateek Bakhtiani, and a quarterly rotating kitchen that begins with chef Aman Singhal on the helm. The meals is cuisine-agnostic however tightly thought by way of. Dishes vary from savoury madeleines with goat cheese and pistachio, and a deeply satisfying lion’s mane mushroom shawarma, to intelligent reworks like Jaipur matar tostada on a crisp plantain base, black garlic hen, and a deceptively easy “chicken lasagna” that reveals layers of mousse, mushroom, and basil as soon as lower into. Hidden doorways result in a windowless eating room whose ceiling lights shift by way of the day’s color temperatures. At the bar, cocktails are stripped of narrative and named just by numbers, ten in complete, alongside zero-proof choices labelled A to E. No. 7, constructed on gin, mezcal, strawberry, chipotle, Campari, and vermouth, is a home favorite.
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