Magazine Street Kitchen.
• Food Matters India, the company behind fine-dining restaurant The Table in Colaba, have launched their second culinary venture Magazine Street Kitchen in Byculla. The 2,500 square feet property will be utilised as a kitchen on hire and an events venue. Magazine Street Kitchen, which opened on Friday, June 3, is available to rent for workshops, private dinners, chef’s table meals and food-related photo and video shoots shoots. At the inaugural workshop at 2pm on Saturday, June 11, participants can learn how to make pasta by hand by Alex Sanchez, the head chef at The Table. The workshop is priced at Rs4,000 per person (inclusive of a pasta meal cooked by the participants). Tickets are being sold on Insider.in. Magazine Street Kitchen, Gala No.13, Devidayal Compound, Gupta Mills Estate, Reay Road, Magazine Street, Darukhana, Byculla. For enquiries, email kitchen@foodmatters.in.
• In May, Sanjana Sanghi, an entrepreneur from Mumbai, set up Pop-Up Hut, a concept food store in Kemps Corner. Every month the venue will host a new food brand, restaurant or caterer. This month, IFruit, a city-based wholesale ice cream supplier is retailing ice cream rolls, a popular South-East Asian treat. You can choose from mango, kiwi, Nutella, Oreo and ginger chilli rolls served with a topping of your choice. In July, IFruit will be replaced by a joint that specialises in gourmet burgers (they will reveal the name closer to the time). Open Monday to Friday, from 3pm to midnight and Saturday and Sunday, from noon to midnight. Pop-Up Hut, near Kwality House, next to Crossword Bookstore, Kemps Corner. Tel: 98193 34698.
• Oh Dough, a cookie shop, opened in Fort on Monday, June 6. Ritika Chawla, a patisserie graduate from Le Cordon Bleu London, helms the store, which sells pistachio; hazelnut praline; double chocolate orange; Smores and Chipzel (made up of pretzels and potato chips); and chocolate chip cookies. Chawla has also crafted a range of gourmet ice creams such as red velvet and pistachio black truffle to pair with the cookies. They can also be ordered separately. Open daily, from 11am to 11pm. Oh Dough, Ground Foor, Hind Rajasthan Chambers, near Burma Burma, 6 Allana Marg, Kala Ghoda, Fort. Tel: 022 2263 1313.
• Takeaway and delivery joint Death By Bbq opened in Khar last week. Hira Mulchandani quit his job as a marketing professional to set up the brand, which specialises in American-style barbecued meats. The menu lists Kansas-style ribs; Memphis-style pulled pork; Texas style-beef ribs; pulled pork sandwich; Death By BBQ fries fried in lard; and BBQ chicken. The dishes are served with either Southern-style baked beans or potato salad. Open daily, from 11am to 11pm. Death By BBQ, near Union Park, off Carter Road, Khar. Tel: 82913 81008.
• Juhu’s Ramee Guestline Hotel, which is home to Japenese restaurant Ruka, has a new rooftop bar called R’Adda. Open daily, from 7pm to 1am. R’Adda, Sixth Floor, Ramee Guestline, A. B. Nair Road, Juhu. Tel: 70455 93074.
• An outpost of The Belgian Waffle Co., the chain of quick service waffle joints, has opened in Colaba. The menu of waffle sandwiches and hot and cold beverages is the same across the chain. Open daily, from 11am to 11pm. The Belgian Waffle Co., Shop No.24, Causeway House, Ground Floor, in the lane before Leopold Cafe, Colaba. Tel: 88281 62358.
• The Bohri Kitchen home catering service is slated to launch its first store, in Malad by the middle of July. At the retail and delivery outlet inside Inorbit Mall, they will cater chicken dum biryani; mutton biryani; smoked mutton kheema samosas; dal samosas; and a set thaal, which comprises their home delivery menu, which you can also order on Scootsy. The Bohri Kitchen, Inorbit Mall, Link Road, Malad.
CLOSINGS
• Bandra all-day cafe and bar Cafe Lager, which opened as Lagerbay in 2012 and was subsequently rebranded, has shuttered.
• Yellow Bar All Day, the bar and restaurant in Khar, has closed after a five-month run.