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FIELIA Mumbai is an invite-only cocktail-forward bar inside Mahalaxmi Race Course, designed by Gauri Khan. Think Cocktail Cinema, aperitivo plates inspired by the seven sins, and storytelling-led drinks that perform, not pour. Curtains Rise. FIELIA Begins. Mumbai loves a good secret.But this one is dressed in velvet, shadow, and scandal. Hidden inside the iconic Mahalaxmi Race Course, FIELIA opens not as a bar, but as a performance. Invite-only. Cocktail-forward. Cinematic

There’s a particular moment at Soraia at Mahalaxmi Racecourse when you realise you’ve stopped checking your phone. It happens quietly. Somewhere between walking past the foliage-lined entry and settling into your seat as the light filters through glass and leaves. The city is still there, technically, but it feels softened. Distant. As though Mumbai has stepped back to give you space. Set within the greens of the Royal Western India Turf Club , Soraia doesn’t announce itse

Juhu has never lacked places to go out. What it has lacked is restraint. For years, the neighbourhood’s nightlife has leaned loud, familiar, predictable. KOJAK changes that rhythm entirely. It does not arrive asking for attention or trying to explain itself upfront. It waits. And in that waiting, it becomes intriguing. We walked into KOJAK expecting a cocktail bar in Juhu. What we found instead was a mood that unfolds slowly, the kind that settles in rather than peaks early.

Some neighbourhoods in Mumbai never had to try. Bandra had its bars. Juhu had its regulars. South Mumbai had legacy. Goregaon, for the longest time, had potential. Bodega 39 is what happens when that potential finally finds a proper address. This is Goregaon’s first real upscale cocktail bar, not dressed-up casual, not loud for the sake of it, but deliberate, confident, and built for people who actually care about what’s in their glass. An All-Day Bar That Understands Timing

éntisi Jio World Drive introduces freshly baked cookies, warm chocolate raclette, and an interactive dragees bar. A full sensory experience in the heart of BKC. A New Chapter for éntisi at Jio World Drive Walk into éntisi Jio World Drive and you instantly understand why chocolate shops should feel like destinations. The warm perfume of butter, melting chocolate and fresh cookies greets you before the visuals do. It’s immersive, cosy and quietly luxurious. Having charmed Pune

Vanilla Beans celebrates strawberry season with a lush new menu starring Nutella, fresh strawberries, crispy kunafa, and buttery crumble. A Mumbai favourite returns. A New Strawberry Menu That Mumbai Was Waiting For Every year, when winter tiptoes into Mumbai, the city’s cravings shift to one defining flavour: strawberries. Bandra’s beloved dessert kitchen, Vanilla Beans , understands this ritual better than anyone. Their seasonal strawberry menu has always been a quiet pheno

Call Me Sofia is Mumbai’s first Italian-style aperitivo bar, glowing from 6 pm to 1 am with playful low-ABV cocktails, thoughtful small plates, and a warm, golden intimacy perfect for slow, flirtatious evenings. Call Me Sofia Mumbai Review: A Slow, Golden Evening in Khar West The first thing you feel at Call Me Sofia is a shift in pace. Not the hurried, high-decibel Mumbai evening you brace yourself for, but something softer, more cinematic. The light drops, the courtyard br

Cantina BKC arrives with handmade pasta, 48-hour fermented pizzas, bold cocktails, warm lighting, and a mood that edges closer to Brooklyn than Bandra Kurla. Come hungry, come curious, come ready for a dining room that refuses to take itself too seriously. There is a moment at Cantina BKC that stays with you. It happens somewhere between your first bite of mozzarella sticks and the whiff of wood-fired dough hitting the air. You look around the room, glow bouncing off terraz

Some restaurants don’t just open. They arrive with a quiet hum, a subtle intention, a whisper of possibility. The Penang Table Bandra is one of those. Tucked above the bustle of Linking Road, the restaurant looks outwards with curiosity, as if aware that Mumbai’s appetite is shifting, widening, ready for something unfamiliar yet strangely comforting. And that is exactly what this new Malaysian spot leans into: discovery tied to nostalgia, memory intertwined with the new. The