Mumbai food: Bandra bagel joint’s culinary paper to East Indian cuisine

The subsequent time we dump by for cooking during The Bagel Shop, that recently reopened post renovations, in Bandra, we advise we go over their common bagels and try dishes from a special menu titled, Queimada.

Vegetable Potato Chops
Vegetable Potato Chops

Named after a spiced Portuguese nation wine that’s done during home by a East Indians, a menu, launched yesterday, packs in over 20 dishes from a community’s cuisine (no Quei-mada, unfortunately). “Born and brought adult in Bandra, we wanted to move out a menu that was deputy of a East Indian village in a city, and generally in this suburb,” says owners Anil Kably.

Pork Vianda D'Alho (Vindaloo)
Pork Vianda D’Alho (Vindaloo)

Helmed by cook Lester Pereira (Bandra child too), a dishes, labelled between Rs 150 and Rs 400, underline standard East Indian cooking techniques and mixture like a Bottle Masala and hints of Khimad (a coconut-based spiced, honeyed liquor).

Coconut Pancakes With Ice Cream
Coconut Pancakes With Ice Cream

From a soups and sides sections, we can penchant Calde Frange (clear duck soup with juliennes of French bean, carrot, potato and chicken), Vegetable Potato Chops, Beef Pan Rolls, Chitiap (East Indian rice flour pancake) and Wedding Rice (a normal East Indian rice served on special occasions).

Beef Pan Rolls
Beef Pan Rolls

While vegetarians can opt for Pourish (assorted vegetables baked in a thick, immature coconut gravy, served on a bed of noodles), non-veggies can tuck into Pickled Chicken (cooked in cashew and raisin paste), Chicken Lonvas (cooked in Bottle Masala), Mutton Khuddi and pig varieties like Sorpotel and Vindaloo. For desserts, try Sweet Potato Chach (sweet potato served in jaggery honeyed coconut juice).

On: Daily, 7.30 pm onwards
At: No 30, Pali Mala Road, Pali Hill, Bandra (W). 
Call: 26050178

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