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Mumbai Food: Bandra gets new travel-themed cafe
- Updated: May 11, 2017
Banh Mi. Pics/Datta Kumbhar
“I’he attempted furious boar in Sindhudurg. It tastes delicious. I’ve also eaten frog and lizard in Southeast Asia, and bluster in Manipur,” says Anurag Rane, about a list of weird cooking from his travels. His grin is dim underneath his fuzzy beard. Fortunately, nothing of these equipment are on a menu of The Bhookha Beirdo (beard for inspiration, really?), a new travel-themed café in Bandra that a ex-marketing executive launched along with aptness tutor Gitanjali Tandon. Both Bandra residents, they met 4 years behind during a martial humanities class. Their adore for food and transport led them to kickstart a café, that has The Bagel Shop subsequent doorway for company.
The décor is dotted with travel-themed curios
It was all yellow
We pull a doorknob done like a soldier to enter a cosy yellow-hued space, that can chair 15 guests. It is dotted with selected binoculars, genie lamps and a compass-shaped clock, along with house games placed underneath a tables. “Initially, we had suspicion of a food lorry though removing a licenses was difficult,” shares Tandon.
Mushroom Tea
The menu recreates a transport that Rane has attempted during his trips to tools of a US, Europe, Southeast Asia and North India. Think Boston-style Seafood Chowder with surmai and rawas or Saltimbocco Pork Belly, an Italian-Swiss credentials that replaces veal with pork. The dishes, labelled reasonably, also embody Thukpa, Brittania Fish And Chips, Bloody Mary Burger done regulating an in-house sauce, Veg Paella and a Mezze Platter.
Anurag Rane and Gitanjali Tandon
Banh Mi meets Bunny Chow
We start with Greek Melange (Rs 249), a salad packaged with purify flavours of tomato, rocket leaves, bell peppers and feta, sans any mayonnaise thankfully. Mushroom Tea (Rs 149) amenities us with a peppery, umami flavours and a soupy texture.
We design a entertain fritter of bread when we sequence a South African dish, Veg Bunny Chow (Rs 269), though we’re greeted with a burger bun. Its bulb have been scooped to make approach for a curry surfaced with a cheese slice. The thick, tomato-base curry laced with vegetables is some-more Continental than Durban-inspired.
Chilli Chocolate Cake
Instead, we find condolence in Banh Mi (Rs 299), a French shabby Vietnamese sandwich oozing with a creamy, thick meal of vegetables. We also try a cut of Chilli Chocolate Cake (ask for dessert of a day) where Mexican chillies supplement to a flog of dim chocolate.
Authenticity might not be a clever indicate though a Beirdo is cute, and ideal for a inexpensive nonetheless satiating trip-happy date reduction a passport.
TIME: 11 am to 11 pm
AT: 27/A, Pali Mala Road, Bandra (W).
CALL: 9892429167