mid-day exclusive: New nightclub in Worli is desirous by outlandish Dutch dancer

Sweet Sour Roast Eggplant Bao

A huge, sepia-toned, voluptuous mural of Mata Hari welcomed us into Matahaari, a new nightclub slated to open tonight during Worli’s Atria Mall. Staring during us with puzzling eyes and clad in a two-piece that accentuated her curves, was a outlandish Dutch dancer, who beckoned us into a 7,500 sq ft space, designed to demeanour like her boudoir. 

The black-and-gold themed nightclub, owned in partnership by BR Shetty, an gifted hotelier, and designer Bobby Mukherji (spearheaded by Paulomi Shah), is divided into 3 sections.

A mural of Mata Hari and a bar dedicated to champagne and booze nearby a entrance. Pics/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

We walked past an exuberant golden doorway into a loll territory with a chandelier-lit bar dedicated usually to champagne and wine. Then, we came face to face with a faucet dish that was in a centre of a black-tiled self-centredness cover with no partitions.

Beyond a library wall holding mistake hardbacks lay a VVIP territory dressed adult as Mata Hari’s parlour, dotted with bullion clutches, manacles and other equipment that would have been of use to her each day.

Finally, we entered a categorical locus featuring a prolonged bar, a large wooden dance building surrounded by booths with radiant golden couches and particular servant service. “Every component has been desirous by her life. For instance, we’ve put equine busts in a ambience given she was enjoyed horse-riding,” common Shah, who — to supplement to a thesis — also scouted by a series of outfits to collect dual black-and-gold pieces designed by Manish Arora, that will be on arrangement in potion cases. “These matched Mata Hari’s celebrity a best.” On another side was a DJ console where Trap or Twerk are a despotic no-no given a group skeleton to pull in those comparison than millennials.

Along with a interiors, a food and splash menu, conceptualised by Nikhil Merchant, is also an prolongation of a theme. The 5 signature cocktails, with names synonymous to a dancer, are versions of a classics served during a pre-Prohibition era. We fell in adore with a solitaire and stimulating wine-infused Femme Fatale (`950), a beautiful violet chronicle of a French 75 that transposed orange extract with elderflower. Another favourite was a Aphrodisia (`950), a well-spoken tequila-based splash with egg white foam, kaleidoscopic with lemongrass and cocoa dust.

Hints of her Asian stock find their approach into a cooking territory peppered with Chinese, Japanese and Thai fare, along with Indian dishes that would interest to those who crave a kathi hurl post a night of complicated dancing. The menu offers equal options in vegetarian and non-vegetarian fare, with a apart Jain menu too. The dishes enclosed sushi and maki rolls, salad bowls, baos, Kare Pan (Japanese curry bread), noodle bowls and steamed miso-marinated packets of sea drum or smooth tofu. A detonate of zesty Asian flavours greeted us as we mopped adult kaffirlime laced Thai Herbs Avocado Salsa (`450) with bread crackers. The Chicken Yakitori (`550) scored due to a fall-off-the-skewer beef glassy with a sweet-and-spicy teriyaki sauce. The ambience was replicated beautifully in a Sweet Sour Roast Eggplant Bao (R500) with a vegetable, vessel parched to perfection. Packed with soba noodles doused in soya flavoured gas and a horde of veggies, a Japanese Mentsuyu Noodle Bowl (R500) was comforting.

Although pressed to a gills by then, we couldn’t conflict 5 Spicy Chorizo Bao (R650) filled with Goan choriz oozing a delightfully hazed flavour. And only like that, in only dual hours, we were seduced by Mata Hari’s charms.

Opens Tonight (Tuesday to Sunday, 9 pm onwards)
At Level IV, The Atria Mall, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli.
CALL 67363636

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