mid-day 37th anniversary: Your favourite Mumbai cooking underneath Rs 37

Russian Chicken Cutlet At Rs 15
There is zero Russian about this cutlet, Tosha owners Sheikh Mudassar admits. But, he promises it is “masaledar” with a zing of ginger, garlic, and garam masala. While biryani stays a bestseller during this eight-year-old Versova joint, it’s their cutlets that have a fan following to opposition a biryani’s.
TIME 12 PM – 3 PM; 6 PM – 12 PM
AT: Tosha, Shop 13, Juhu Versova Link Road, subsequent to Vikram Petrol Pump, Andheri West
CALL: 9987013276

Single pattice during Rs 37
A two-minute travel from Jhama Sweets, Vig Refreshments is a Sindhi food lover’s paradise, charity Dal Pakwan, Chhola Puri, Ragda Pattice and cold Salted Lassi. However, if we are on a budget, ask for their richly-spiced churned Single Pattice.
TIME: 7 AM – 10 PM 
AT: Vig Refreshments, Chembur Camp, Gidwani Road, Chembur East 
CALL: 8691070000

MALAI SANDWICH AT Rs 25
You’ve substantially headed here in a past for a Chicken Chilli, Mutton Dum Biryani and Mutton Khichda. But when all a burning dishes are devoured, we advise we call for a Malai Sandwich. Made uninformed each day, it comes pressed with khoya and kesar. Calories? What’s that?
TIME: 8 AM – 2 AM
AT: Shalimar, Vazir Building, Shalimar Corner, Bhendi Bazaar, Sandhurst Road, Byculla
CALL: 23456630

MAGHAI MEETHA PAAN AT Rs 25
“The paan has 18 reduction including gulkand, dates, betel nut, clove, rose petals…,” rattles off Jaishankar Tiwari, as famous for his handlebar beard as a Muchhad Paanwala investiture (since 1971) that he manages. For those who aren’t on a budget, there is a Banarasi, Chocolate or Chappan Bhog Paan.
TIME: 6.30 AM – 1 AM
AT: Muchhad Paan Wala, Khatau Mansion, Umar Park, Shop No 13, 99, Bhulabhai Desai Road
CALL: 23690782

MUTTON PATTICE AT Rs 18
Flaky on a outside, tear-jerking inside, a Bandra bakery’s buttery beef puffs are a steal. A-1 stands cushioned between dual other famed Hill Road bakeries, Hearsh and American Bakery, though this conflicting emporium stays swarming nonetheless until products are sole out.
TIME: 5 AM – 9 PM
AT: A-1 Bakery, 89-B, near Holy Family Hospital, Hill Road, Bandra West
CALL: 26426211

CHUTNEY SANDWICH AT Rs 20
It’s distant from a imagination preparation, though this object creates it to a list given it’s so easy to get a chutney wrong. Candies gets a zing right, and a mutation of a bread compliments it beautifully. Godfree Falcon, manager during a Pali Hill branch, says, “At a time, 45 sandwiches arrive here from a executive kitchen. They fly off a conflicting in reduction than 30 minutes.”
TIME: 8.30 AM – 11 PM
AT: All Candies outlets
CALL: 26430728/26423512

BACON AND EDAM CHEESE CROISSANT AT Rs 28
Churchgate’s alfresco café and bakery, Gaylord lets we try a imagination Dutch cheese though a extravagance. They batch a mini croissant that tucks in bacon and a mild, honeyed curd-like tasting Edam cheese. It’s a bestseller given it was introduced final year, so conduct here before noon to get your hands on a piece. If bacon isn’t your thing, try a Turkey Salami Cheese version, pressed with sausage constructed from belligerent dim turkey meat.
TIME: 9 AM – 11 PM
AT: Gaylord Restaurant, Mayfair, VN Road, Churchgate
CALL: 22821259

PIYUSH AT Rs 35
The Maharashtrian splash is a hybrid of shrikhand and buttermilk, carrying a clever spirit of nutmeg and cardamom. It’s a ideal splash to sequence on a prohibited day while tucking into Kothimbir Vadi and Sabudana Vada, a other hits during Ladu Samrat. In box we don’t have a time to wait in reserve during this crowded, vegetarian eatery, opt for a takeaway potion (available in half and full versions).
TIME: 7.30 AM – 10 PM
AT: Ladu Samrat, Shop No 1-2, Habib Terrace, Lalbaug, Dr Ambedkar Road, Parel.
CALL: 24710127

Radio City RJs Salil and Archana forsaken in during Moti Halwai to try a famed Aloo Parathas. “When we get crispy paratha with makkhan, boondi raita and green-red chutney in usually Rs 30 it’s full paisa vasool,” says Archana

ALOO PARATHA AT Rs 30
Packed with bureau goers during lunch hour, Moti Halwai’s tip offering equipment are a Milk Cake (R30) and burn-your-fingers Aloo Parathas. “We make a dishes in pristine ghee, and offer a paratha with butter,” says owners Sunil Saigal. Every nutrionist’s nightmare? You consider a Punjabis care! 
TIME: 8 AM – 11 PM 
AT: Punjabi Moti Halwai, Salva Chambers, 40, Cawasji Patel Street, Kala Ghoda, Fort
CALL: 9820058249

GULAB JAMUN AT Rs 20
While they might have stretched to other suburbs, Jhama Sweets’ flagship Chembur store gets a largest crowd. Established in 1947, a emporium is famous for a melt-in-the-mouth Gulab Jamuns, offering in conflicting shapes and sizes (and best eaten piping hot, a Vachirajanis and Kewalramanis will say, besides a renouned Sindhi sweetmeat Singhar Jhi Mithai, Pista Barfi and a delectable Matthi.
TIME: 9 AM – 10 PM
AT: Jhama Sweets, Chembur Camp, Gidwani Road, Chembur East
CALL: 25531762

VEG PATTICE AT Rs 20
A renouned hangout mark for office-goers looking for a discerning punch before they house a locals, Churchgate’s Stadium grill offers a accumulation of cooking covering all from biryani and kheema to thali and Chinese too. One of their some-more pocket-friendly options is a Veg Pattice. Stuffed with a savoury, veggie mixture, a flaky smoke fritter creates for a stuffing snack, deliberation it’s tad bigger than a miniatures we find during other bakeries.
TIME: 8 AM – 10.30 PM
AT: Stadium Restaurant, 76, Veer Nariman Road, Churchgate
CALL: 22046819

PIZZA SANDWICH AT Rs 36
Is it pizza? Is it a sandwich? Owner Mehdi Dashti says it’s a bit of both. “We bake a special flatbread and things it with veggies, cheese and pizza sauce. It’s afterwards folded and grilled.”
TIME: 5 AM – 11 PM
AT: City Bakery, No. 204, Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli
CALL: 24931215

SEV PURI FOR Rs 30
Second-generation discuss vendor, Raju uses filtered H2O for cooking (to go with a imagination residence he hawks his travel food at), and his sev puri is a strike with Bandraites and expats alike. Food blogger Kalyan Karmakar elaborates on a reason since this sev puri trumps others: “I have never depressed ill after eating his sev puri. Ever-smiling, Raju asks we for your piquancy preference. His father had started this box 60 years ago.”
TIME: 4.30 PM – 9 PM
AT: Raju’s stall, Pali Hill, Sea Queen apartments, Bandra (W)

MAWA SAMOSA AT Rs 10
Remember how many hearts pennyless when they listened that B Merwan was downing a shutters? Strangely, a 100-year-old Irani bakery still binds installation in Grant Road. In box we can’t make it in time for their Mawa Cakes (sold out as early as 8 am), opt for a signature Mawa Samosa with a milk-based filling, evoking dnostalgia with
every bite.
TIME: 5.30 AM – 6 PM
AT: B Merwan Co., Shop No. 1/ 2, Merwan Building, Allibhai Premji Road, conflicting Grant Road Station East
CALL: 23093321

FILTER COFFEE AT Rs 30 
Though a cost has risen from 15 paise in a 1940s, a Filter Coffee during Matunga’s mythological Café Madras stays a pull for loyalists. No dish during this 75-year-old South Indian corner is finish though a piping prohibited tumbler of a frothy concoction, brewed in a tack south Indian filter. Goes best with Rasam Vada (Rs 60) and Pesarattu Dosa (all pellet with boiled onion filling; Rs 65). 
TIME: 7 AM – 2.30 PM, 4 PM – 10.30 PM (Mondays closed) 
AT: Café Madras, 38/B, Kamakshi Building, Circle House, Matunga, circuitously King’s Circle
CALL: 24014419

CHICKEN LOLLIPOP AT Rs 20
J Hearsch Co. Bakery’s bequest dates behind to a Raj, when a German named Hearsch handed over his business to Bandra renter Sophia Fernandes. The family continues to be renter of a bakery though it’s run by brothers Melvin and Steven D’sa. Their duck lollipop is a strike for a tender beef cooking in a sharp cloaking and deep-fried.
TIME: 7 AM – 10 PM
AT: J Hearsch Co., 90/A, subsequent to Holy Family Hospital, Hill Road, Bandra West
CALL: 26435361

BREAD PUDDING AT Rs 30
Made with boiled milk, bread, eggs and a lurch of vanilla essence, a consume soothing bread pudding during Ideal Corner is an appetite flog that goes good with your afternoon tea. “It’s also a protein-rich breakfast option. You won’t get inspired compartment lunch,” Parvez Patel, partner during a 30-year-old Parsi eatery, promises.
TIME: 12 PM – 3.30 PM; 5.30 PM – 10.45 PM (Monday closed)
AT: Ideal Corner, 12 F/G, Hornby View, Gunbow Street, Fort
CALL: 22621930

MAWA CAKE AT Rs 18
While Sassanian has stretched a menu of normal Parsi eats, a signature oblong-shaped Mawa Cake stays a favourite for business and a foe (ask nonagenarian Boman Kohinoor of Britannia Co.) “That is what a Mawa Cake should ambience like,” he had pronounced when asked to name his favourite Parsi eat from a foe establishment.
TIME: 7 AM – 10 PM
AT: Sassanian Boulangerie, 98, Marine View, Anandilal Podar Marg, circuitously Metro cinema
CAll: 22006198

KALA KHATTA AT Rs 12
Running a hole-in-the-wall corner pinched between a line of eateries conflicting CST, Kala Khatta Cold Drinks House owners Akram K  han skilfully fills adult rows of eyeglasses with one-fourth apportionment of syrup, before commanding it with H2O and ice chunks. “This place was set adult before Independence. At a time, a sherbet was sole for `1,” he says, before interesting us to try a other renouned drink, watermelon and hiss mix.
TIME: 9 AM – 11 PM
AT: Kala Khatta Cold Drinks House, Shop No 11, conflicting BMC Office, Mahapalika Marg, CST

Puran Poli during Rs 35
Owner Suryakant Sarjoshi was in a news for rising a bend of his iconic Maharashtrian eatery, Dadar’s Aaswad, during a International airfield recently. Here, guest things themselves with Vada Pav and Missal, though it’s a carry-me-away packets of Puran Poli that we will wish to take home for dessert. 
TIME: 10 AM – 10.30 PM
AT: Aaswad, Shivaji Park House, Ram Ganesh Gadkari Chowk, Dadar West
CALL: 24451871

SHEERA AT Rs 30
Shri Krishna is famous initial for a Vada Pav, that Mumbaikars in a precipitate wolf down while satirical into crunchy boiled and pickled chillies. But a other showstopper is their Sheera, a pile of lustrous white carrying a glaze of ghee, served piping prohibited fro a apart counter.
TIME: 11 AM to midnight
AT: Shri Krishna, Radha Nivas, Chhabildas Road, Dadar West
CALL: 24307416

AFLATOON AT Rs 35
Laced with desi ghee, a melt-in-the-mouth mawa-based baked Aflatoon stays a bestseller during Mohammad Ali Road’s Suleman Mithaiwala, that now also bonds assorted varieties with cashew nuts and almonds among other divert and Bengali sweets.
TIME: 7.30 AM – 12.30 AM
AT: Suleman Mithaiwala, No. 41F/G, Mohammad Ali Road
CALL: 66366606

UKDICHE MODAK AT Rs 26
While their direct goes by a roof during Ganeshotsav, a Ukadiche Modak, a Maharashtrian-style steamed dumpling, are accessible all-year turn during Modakam. Gopal Balgi, 62, whose hermit (Deepak Gaikar) is owners of a restaurant, is a usually one to offer a accumulation of a modak surfaced with ghee.
TIME: 8 AM – 11 PM 
AT: Modakam, 8/1, Kamana CHS, SK Bole Marg, circuitously Siddhivinayak Temple, Prabhadevi
CALL: 30401011

MEDU VADA AT Rs 15
Maddu Mess owners Kanakraj Nadar has a balmy disposition, and is distant from fatigued manning an investiture that his family has helmed for 40 years. “Dus paise ke zamane se sound idhar hain,” he smiles. Maddu’s breakfast specialties embody medu vada, dal vada, idli sambar, during mud inexpensive rates gripping a students of circuitously IIT in mind. But here’s a challenge: arise adult during emergence to bite their snacks given Maddu opens a doors during 4.30 am.
TIME: 4.30 AM – 9 PM
AT: Maddu Mess, opposite Market Gate, IIT, Powai
CALL: 25789912

UPMA AT Rs 33
In a same community as Café Madras and A Rama Nayak is Anand Bhavan, determined in 1946 and now managed by third-generation owner, Haridas Nayak. It’s a favourite with bureau goers, who dump in for a discerning healthful breakfast before holding on a severe day. The upma, gradual with curry leaves, mustard and roasted urad dal, comes sprinkled with crunchy farsan boondis. It’s served with flavoured coconut chutney and sambhar. The other underneath `37 break to try here is a sponge-soft idli (Rs 33).
Time: 7 AM – 9 PM
At: Anand Bhavan, 461/A, Ram Niwas, King’s Circle Flyover, Matunga East
Call: 24015745

IRANI SEEKH KEBAB AT Rs 24
“It is a prolonged preparation, is all we can tell you,” says Sarvi’s Haji Ghulam Ali, about a Nagpada bill eatery’s famed seekh kebabs. The operative category squeeze a discerning dish in a filthy precinct and cars hindrance to collect adult takeaways. An Iranian, Ali changed from Yazd range to Mumbai, to set adult a family-run establishment. The kebabs are flavourful, like a beef preparations of his hometown, though blank a palatable peculiarity of lamb they suffer in Iran.
TIME: 7.30 am to 12.30 am
AT: Sarvi, Dimtimkar Road, Nagpada, Byculla
CALL: 9820142967

Veg dish underneath Rs 37
This year, Gharoba, an eatery run by women’s common Stri Hitwardhini Audhyogic Sahkari Sanstha, celebrates 50 years. Headed by 62-year-old Urmila Vinayak Padwal, a vast disaster lined with benches and tables serves modest food compartment 10.30 pm, dished out of glossy immaculate steel utensils. Rotis for Rs 3 and sabzi for Rs 20 make adult a dish that will get we by even in a final week of a month. 
TIME: 8 AM – 8 PM
AT: Gharoba, Dr SS Rao Road, conflicting Peninsula Centre, Parel

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