Bar Review: Yellow Bar All Day, Khar
Yellow Bar All Day is, as implied in its name, both a bar and a restaurant. Unfortunately, it doesn’t do a very good job of being either. What it does have going for it is space, which has been used...
View ArticleLe15 Cafe To Open in Colaba
Parmesan waffles with tomato jam and poached eggs. After Thursday, February 11, South Mumbai residents won’t need to drive down to Lower Parel or beyond the Sea Link for their fix of confections from...
View ArticleThe Paodcast: Camembert, Coldplay and Two Queer Arts Projects
On this episode of our fortnightly Mumbai podcast, we talk about the most interesting aspect of the new Coldplay video in Secret City, cheesemaking outfit The Spotted Cow Fromagerie in Bombay Binge,...
View ArticleKala Ghoda Arts Festival 2016 Picks: Monday, February 8 to Thursday, February 11
‘Aamchi Mumbai’ by Arjun Bahl of the St.Art India Foundation welcomes visitors to Rampart Row. Our picks of events to attend during the next four days of the city’s largest and most popular...
View ArticleFoodhall Is Holding A Wine And Cheese Festival
To mark Valentine’s Day, on Sunday, February 14, Foodhall, the gourmet food store at Palladium mall in Lower Parel, is hosting a wine and cheese festival throughout this month. During the festival, the...
View ArticleKala Ghoda Arts Festival 2016 Picks: Friday, February 12 to Sunday, February 14
Karsh Kale will perform on Saturday. Photo: Vishesh Sharma. As always, some of the most popular names on the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival schedule have been saved for the second weekend. Get there early...
View ArticleAdventures of Cheap Beer Podcast: Raj Bar and Restaurant
For the milestone twentieth episode of the Adventures of Cheap Beer, podcasters and dive bar regulars Karan Agarwal and Siddhant Mehta took along their friend, advertising professional Karl Bharucha,...
View ArticleThe Daily Pao Weekend Events Calendar: Friday, February 12 to Sunday,...
Keb’ Mo’ will play the Mahindra Blues Festival on Saturday. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12 FOOD Navi Mumbai Food Festival The four-day festival will feature food stalls by restaurants such as Sigdi, Urban Spice...
View ArticleBar Review: Doppio Bar and Brasserie, Breach Candy
For years, The Ghetto was one of the few places in the Breach Candy and Pedder Road area where you could get a drink. The stodgy bar at the Shalimar Hotel was the other and we’re not counting a country...
View ArticleNew Bars and Restaurants: True Tramm Trunk in Juhu, Cafe Mezzuna in Andheri
True Tramm Trunk. OPENINGS • True Tramm Trunk, a 75-seater lounge, opened in Juhu in the first week of February. The drinks menu features a number of house cocktails inspired by the different regions...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: Tea Trails, Kala Ghoda
Tea Centre is Churchgate is perhaps the only tea café where the food is as good as the chai. At other tea-focused joints like the Taj Mahal Tea House and Chaayos, either the food or the tea or both are...
View ArticleNew Restaurants: Soho Tapas Bar in Andheri, Farmer & Sons and Crossroads 92...
Soho Tapas Bar. • Soho Tapas Bar, which opened in Andheri West last month, serves a menu featuring patatas bravas; baked malai mushrooms; stuffed Bhavnagari chillis; fish cakes with pineapple salsa;...
View ArticleGreen Acres: A Lush Farm Lies Hidden In The Heart Of Lalbaug
The concrete forest of Mumbai has a few phenomena rarely found in cities. Some, like the leopard habitat of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, are vast, unmistakable and astonishing as they exist within the...
View ArticleThe Daily Pao Weekend Events Calendar: Friday, February 19 to Sunday,...
‘Printed Rainbow’ will be screened at both the FLO Film Festival and the EyeMyth Media Arts Festival. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19 FILM FLO Film Festival at Films Division and Russian Centre This festival,...
View ArticleIndigo Deli Is Serving A Special Breakfast Menu On Weekends
All-day casual-dining chain Indigo Deli, which is popular with the breakfast crowd, has launched a new egg-centric menu that is served every weekend. The ‘Eggs from Heaven’ fare, as they’re calling it,...
View ArticleMonthly Specials: Inside Rex Bakery In Colaba
Baking pans with knobs of half-risen dough. Behind a bullet-pocked wall in Colaba market, six men in banians and half-folded lungis with a light dusting of flour covering their bodies are constantly on...
View ArticleTen Tasty Giveaways To Toast The First Anniversary Of The Daily Pao
The Daily Pao turned one this past weekend. To mark the milestone and to thank you dear readers for getting us there, we’ve put together ten giveaways from some of our favourite restaurants, bars and...
View ArticleThe Paodcast: Local Cookbooks, Loud Public Art and a Lalbaug Walk
On the fifth episode of our fortnightly podcast, we talk about two new neighbourhood-specific cookbooks, Flavours of Kala Ghoda compiled by food blogger Nicole Mody and The Indecisive Chicken...
View ArticleAdventures Of Cheap Beer Podcast: Harish Lunch Home
For episode 21 of their podcast, the trio of tipplers Karan Agarwal, Siddhant Mehta and Suyash Barve visited Irla dive bar Harish Lunch Home with guests, Houston-based petroleum engineer and superbike...
View ArticleRestaurant Review: BAD Cafe, Bandra West
BAD has been open for two months without a listed phone number and is so hidden within a Bandra village, it necessitates the use of Google Maps. Are BAD’s founders, siblings Amit and Bhavna Dhanani,...
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