Is Mumbai’s latest atmospheric rooftop grill value a visit? Find out

Take your collect from a accumulation of seating arrangements that embody cabanas, sofas, laidback chairs and bar stools. PICS/Shadab Khan

It’s a small before dusk when we dump by during Swey, nestled on a patio of Atria mall. We exit a lift, make a approach by a slight passage, and though warning, find ourselves in a space that’s during slightest 14 times incomparable than a many atmospheric grill we have been in lately.

Spread over 14,000 sq ft, a rooftop grill is a latest charity of Kabir Luthria and Gaurav Dabrai — a folks who run Kino Cottage in Versova and Copa in Juhu. The Worli venture, that opens to a open tomorrow, brings a dual for a initial time to south Mumbai.

Swey, we learn, is an acronym for Sip Wine and Enjoy Yourself. “We wanted to get absolved of a pretended tab that many rooftop bars are compared with, while still giving people an up-market niche experience. We wish people to dump by though bothering about what they’re wearing,” says Dabrai, a painfully camera-shy 36-year-old. The 300-plus seater has an observable Goa vibe what with a friendly seating arrangement and cold sea breeze.

Keep a alloy divided with Apple A Day (Rs 550), a Demerara vodka formed drink, with homemade apple butter and a cookie pulp rim

Despite being large, a space doesn’t overwhelm. With good spaced out seating arrangements for opposite organisation sizes including cabanas, sofas, laidback chairs and bar stools, there’s something in it for everybody. Curiously, there’s also a soundproof phone counter in box we need to take a discerning work call on a day you’ve called in “sick”. The song will be House and Tropical, though Luthria promises it won’t come in a approach of conversation.

We take a chair in a cabana-style seating, ideal for a organisation of 10, and get an unrestricted perspective of a restaurant. Alternatively, if you’re looking for a sea view, there are dual sections meant for groups of 30-40 with apart bar counters.

First up, we start with a Kale Hearty (`500), vodka churned with creatively done brew of spinach, kale and an in-house citrus and ginger syrup. Ideal for a summer drunch, this even works a sorcery during Mumbai’s blink-and-you-miss-it cold evenings. You don’t need to worry about blending your ethanol with Apple A Day. A Demerara vodka formed drink, with homemade apple butter and a cookie pulp rim, it’s a dessert we were formulation to finish a night with. The evening’s chakna is a Bar Trail Mix that includes Sri Lankan spiced almonds, Mexican spiced pumpkin seeds and soy and wasabi cashews, (all piquancy mixes sun- dusty on their patio and blended inhouse).

Try a East Indian character pressed squid with chilli aioli and pineapple salsa (Rs 445)

Chef Clyde Comello’s menu is complicated with European influences and there’s adequate to greatfully vegetarians. But, we are beef lovers. Our initial collect is a teriyaki duck slider — duck teriyaki (prepared in-house) with pineapple salsa wasabi mayo on homemade brioche loaf. This works usually if we don’t mind a honeyed component in it. If we don’t mind a bit of indulgence, there’s deta beignet, cubed feta deep-fried with tomato jam and balsamic. What tickles a Mangalorean tastebuds, however, is a East Indian character pressed squid with chilli aioli and pineapple salsa. The comprehensive must-have is a pizza, uninformed as it could be, as a bread is prepared in-house from scratch. We have a fungus pizza with symbol shiitake, portobello mushrooms sauteed in butter garlic and thyme with white cheese salsa and truffle oil.

As we nearby a finish of a gastronomical binge, we realize a vibe has curiously remade by sundown, for a better, that is. The cutesy lamps lend a golden heat to a space and that’s when a genuine sorcery of Swey is revealed. Biting into a decadent hazelnut entremet with layers of hazelnut dacquoise, caramel salsa and amaretto peaked Chantilly, we realize we have spent roughly 4 hours here. And that’s what this place has a intensity to do — make we forget all about time, even if it’s usually for a integrate of hours.

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