Mumbai Food: Hop into nostalgia during this new Bandra restaurant

A diversion of hopscotch greets we during a entrance. Pics/Shraddha Uchil

Nostalgia seems to have turn a buzzword du jour, with advertisers feeding it to intensity business as yet it’s comfort food, and radio shows like Stranger Things revelation audiences that old-school is cool.

Play a diversion of real-life Tetris during your table

It is no surprise, then, that a trend has trickled down to a FB industry, too. The latest entrant to a large fat nostalgia celebration is Hopscotch, a new bar and brasserie in Bandra. The brainchild of first-time restaurateurs Roshan Sachdeva, mother Neha, and her hermit Gaurav Khetwani, it has Suved Lohia, who has played consultant to several restaurants in a city over a years, as handling partner.

Dilliwali Black Daal Thepla Nachos

Baby steps
Hopscotch replaces Asado, that started out as a Latin American griddle though was after revamped into a bar. While a subdivision between a al fresco and indoor sections remains, it retains nothing of a film set-like interiors, giving approach to a cleaner look. Inside, on a wall, we notice LEGO blocks, while another has Tic Tac Toe with wooden Xs and Os planted on it. We also mark a real-life , light-up chronicle of Tetris, that many of us spent a childhoods personification on a Game Boys. The floor, meanwhile, bears a charming mosaic tile chronicle of a diversion that gives this eatery a name. We consternation if it’s going to enforce people to enter hopping on one foot.

Hobscotch Coffee

But that’s where a time transport ends, and adulthood takes over. Come sundown and a lights are dimmed, and a space turns into a lounge, with Pop marks wafting by a speakers. We’re blissful for it, since any some-more nostalgia elements, and it would have turn a kitschy nightmare.

Hummus Tadka

Let’s nacho?
Being an all-day dining space, Hopscotch’s menu is extensive. It spans a accumulation of cuisines and facilities copiousness of alloy dishes (an f-word that customarily fills us with trepidation). We start with a Nostalgic Butter Chicken Nachos (Rs 375) and a Dilliwali Black Daal Thepla Nachos (Rs 400). The former stars tawny butter duck resting on a bed of crispy ‘nachos’ done of wonton wrappers. The sole waste to this is that a bottom turns slimy quickly, so these are best demolished as they arrive during a table. The latter is an ideal collect for vegetarians, replacing a normal Mexican refried beans with a comforting black dal. We also suffer a Hummus Tadka (Rs 375), a multiple of easily spiced tadka duck and some cooling hummus.

Spiritual Smoke

The nachos act as ideal finger food to a cocktails. The Hobscotch Coffee (Rs 450) is particularly for those who adore their caffeine, as it has espresso vodka, Kahlua as good as coffee, a potential of that is middle-aged by honeyed orgeat syrup. The second cocktail we try is Spiritual Smoke (Rs 450), a happy splash (with copiousness of effervescent and dry ice theatrics) that bursts with bubblegum and orange flavours.

Hopscotch Special Stroganoff

The Hopscotch Special Pad Thai (Rs 500) leaves most to be desired, and creates us consternation if we’ll ever find a decent pad thai outward a bustling streets of Bangkok. The Hopscotch Special Stroganoff (Rs 450), however, grabs a courtesy with a abounding paneer gravy and perfumed herbed rice.

Nostalgic Butter Chicken Nachos

Hopscotch will shortly deliver Retro nights and Sunday brunches. In a meantime, to finish a travel down nostalgia lane, we wish they’ll chuck in house games, too.

Opens on: May 9 TIME 12 pm to 1 am
At: Manorama Chambers, SV Road, Bandra (W).
Call: 9820792355

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