Craving for Tunday kebabs? Here’s where we can get a plate in Mumbai

A staffer creates Tunday Kebabs in a open kitchen. Pics Courtesy/Yoshita Sengupta

Unless you’ve been vital underneath a stone or though an Internet connection, we would have listened that a famous tunday kebabs, done regulating buffalo meat, were taken off a menu during a mythological Tunday Kababi in Lucknow final week, post Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s crackdown on bootleg slaughterhouses. Having attempted a heavenly, melt-in-your-mouth kebabs on a revisit to a century-old investiture final year, we craved a punch of tunday kebabs and scoured Mumbai to find that a plate finds few takers here.

Lucknowee on Mohammad Ali Road, one of a few places charity a authentic version, shuttered recently. Instead, we headed to a Jogeshwari branch, Lucknowee Tunday Kebab, launched in Dec 2015, that offers a tender plate (Rs 120 for 4 pieces) along with an endless menu featuring Mughlai and Oriental varieties too. “We make it with goat meat, though use a strange Lucknowi recipe,” positive a staffer.

The kebabs came tighten to their Lucknowee ilk, with their silky soft, fall-off-the-fork hardness and richly spiced flavours. However, we missed a strong clean beef flavour, that creates Tunday what it is. Until a strange kababchi finds a approach to move it behind on a menu, we’ll hang to galouti and kakori kebabs.

TIME: 12.30 pm to 12.30 am
AT: 121, conflicting Ghaswala Dairy Fresh, SV Road, Jogeshwari (W).
CALL: 26782049

Tunday for a toothless

Legend goes that when age held adult with a kebab-loving nawab and he mislaid his teeth, stately clientele was offering to anyone who would be means to emanate a softest kebabs. A one-armed cook calle d Haji Murad Ali combined a tip recipe, that was presumably infused with 160 spices. These kebabs came to be famous as tunday, that means ‘without an arm’ in Urdu.