Mumbai food: Lower Parel gastropub offers tasty, pocket-friendly Asian eats

Review
Food: Tasty
Ambience: Cheery
Service: Efficient
Cost: Reasonable
Verdict: *** 

Twice Cooked Pork Belly Bao

Presenting a graphic Kyoto-meets-Kamala Mills vibe, Mr Baozi bewitched us with lovable pinkish cherry blossoms embellished on AC ducts, exuberant porcelain vases, red kettles that ornate a shelves and wooden seat radiant underneath wire-framed lamps.

Having recently taken chateau subsequent to a elder sibling, The Bar Stock Exchange in Lower Parel — both share a wall and owners — a atmospheric Asian gastropub, with an open sushi bar, offers transport from opposite a continent, rustled adult by apt chefs Kshama Prabhu and Gaurav Gidwani.

Californian Maki Rolls

Bao wow
From baos, sushi and sashimi platters to dimsums, gyoza (pan-fried dumplings), satays, stir fries, curries, meals-in-a-bowl, rice and noodles — a endless menu featured an array of options, including informed cooking like Kung Pao Chicken and Nasi Goreng. From a baos section, we systematic Twice Cooked Pork Belly (‘300) and Crunchy Potato with South Eastern Flavours (‘250).

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Piping prohibited and consume soft, a Pork Belly Bao packaged a punch with a proposal beef laced with sharp sriracha sauce. Almost like a veggie delivery of prawn tempura, a Crunchy Potato Bao with Gochujang Chilli Mayo (a mayonnaise done with Korean red peppers paste) was a strike too. Hands down, they were some of best baos we’d had in a prolonged time.

Liquid Som Tom cocktail

Salad cocktail, anyone?
From a bar menu, molecular cocktails braggadocio of rosemary fume and jaggery redux teased us though we stranded to Liquid Som Tom (‘350). A quirky take on a salad version, a vodka-based cocktail was a spicy-sour miscellany of tender papaya and orange extract infused with coriander and bird eye red chilli. Served in a potion rimmed with crusted peanuts, a cherry tomato skewer and honeyed jaggery on a side, a balmy splash had an outcome identical to Thai massage, withdrawal us wanting for more.

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Splashes of red in a seat brightened a space. Pics/Atul Kamble

Alongside, we also systematic Californian Maki Rolls (‘175 for 4 pieces) featuring crabstick, avocado and cucumbers orderly rolled in gummy rice. Moderately labelled and high on flavour, a rolls would be ideal for sushi newbies who are penetrating to get introduced to Jap nosh but spending a bomb.

Not so Ramen
Having savoured a well-spoken float so far, we relied on a lady to comfort us with The Chicken Ramen Bowl (‘365). Though generously-sized with a apportionment sufficient for two, a meal-in-a-bowl unhappy with a OTT soy salsa and miso seasoning, drowning a ambience of duck chunks and veggies.

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Instead, we found condolence in The Healthy Bang (‘350), wherein a acidity of beetroot extract was easily offset by honey, tamarind pulp, spirit of star anise and dim rum.

Time 12 pm to 4 pm; 6.30 pm to 1 am
At C wing, Trade World, subsequent to The Bar Stock Exchange, Kamala Mills, Lower Parel.
Call 7666569300

Mr Baozi didn’t know we were there. The Guide reviews and pays anonymously for meals. Exceptional **** Excellent *** Very Good ** Good *

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