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Mumbai: 5 places to eat just outside your hotel
Coffee shop? No way. There's life -- and food -- just beyond the lobby
Fat Cat Kitchen & Bar in Andheri is gaining popularity as an after-work supper spot.There is life beyond the restaurants and coffee shops at the end of your hotel elevator.
A walk or short ride away we pick five busy restaurants in three bustling neighborhoods in Mumbai -- where locals go, every night of the week.
This is how you get there.
Area: Andheri and Juhu
Hotels: Svenska and JW Marriott
Celebrity chef Jiggs Kalra’s eatery Punjab Grill makes the most aromatic black lentils in the city (brewed for more than 24 hours) along with the Tandoori duck and fish tikkas and mutton kebabs.
In fact just order the "non-veg" platter and some butter naans.
The digestive betel nut “paan shots” are best tried and not described.
More on CNNGo: Digestif paan shot at Punjab Grill
Not too far from Punjab Grill in the Juhu beach vicinity is the big daddy of sea food: Mahesh Lunch Home.
Thankfully its dishy crabs get more attention than the locals (of all stripes) waiting to get their table at this four-decade-old, family-run award-winning eatery.
Be sure to go by owner Mahendra’s recommendations on the assorted coastal menu and, yes, they are sensitive to the spice factor, you just need to say so.
Punjab Grill's innovative digestif paan shot.
Banana Leaf's curried rasam sets the pace for Chettinad flavors to follow. Perfect for Sunday noon.
Funny name, but Fat Cat Kitchen & Bar is new, tiny, shiny and gaining popularity as an after-office supper spot for its sage-scented old-school lasagna and long list of tapas.
The succulent mutton pillaf with liberal helpings of saffron and spices is worth going off the beaten track to find this cozy Andheri restaurant.
Koyla stands for biryani. Great ambiance saves you having to buy a plane ticket to the city of biryani’s birth, Hyderabad.
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Banana Leaf, Shubham Society, Vikram Petrol Pump, Juhu Versova Link Road, Andheri (W);+91 99304 88080
Mahesh Lunch Home, Kings Apartment, Juhu Tara Road, next to Juhu Centaur;+91 (0)22 6695 5559/54; www.maheshlunchhome.com
Koyla, Paramount, 2/F, New Link Road, Oshiwara, Andheri (W);+91 (0)98 9240 3222
Punjab Grill, Juhu Shopping Centre, Gulmohar Park Society, Gulmohar Road, opposite Sujoy Hospital, Juhu; +91 (0)22 42433 100/101; www.punjabgrill.in
Fat Cat Kitchen & Bar, Bharat Ark, Veera Desai Road, next to ICICI Bank, Andheri West;+91 22 26732 040/47; www.visitfatcat.com
